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The Maine caucus system is probably not that dissimilar to that of other states:

"Please explain these Maine figures from CNN Election Center. Not familiar with the system.
Obama 2079
Clinton 1396
They are marked *State Del."

The short answer is that the above "delegates" are representative delegates.

Here's a longer answer about the relationship between Delegates to the State Democratic Convention and the Caucus attendees. Each caucus is assigned a number of Delegates to the State Convention based on the Democratic turnout in our town from the previous Presidential General Election. That's how the 109 of us who gathered together last Sunday ended up being represented by 7 delegates based on our proportional preference for Clinton, Obama, or Undecided; the actual delegates are selected from their Caucus subgroups. If every Democrat in town had showed up, we still would have only gotten 7 delegates. If only seven of us showed up, each one of us could have been a delegate. So the system ain't perfect.

Each delegate is also backed up by an "Alternative" who's selected as well within each Caucus subgroup.

CNN may not have adequately explained what we were busily doing.

Charley Noble