23 May 2000: Curt Achberger, Executive Director of the Republican Party of Alaska, reports that "our entire delegation is enthusiastically supporting G W Bush for President".
The Popular Vote above is based on official returns from the 24 January Straw Poll (100% of the Precincts reporting).
Monday 24 January 2000: Republican Party Caucuses meet in each
precinct. Each Precinct Caucus chooses the precinct's delegates to the
Election District Caucuses.
- "There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucuses to
relate the presidential preference of the Caucus participants to the
choice of the precinct's delegates to the District Caucus of the
Election District in which the precinct is located. The participants
at each Precinct Caucus alone determine if presidential preference is
to be a factor in such choice and, if so, how it is to be applied."
(There is to be a nonbinding "Straw Poll" held in conjunction with
these Caucuses... I'm sure the media will be drooling over the results
of this as well as the numbers coming out of Iowa that night even
though, again, no National Convention delegates will be chosen
herein).
No earlier than Wednesday 23 February 2000 through no later than
Wednesday 19 April 2000: Republican Party District Caucuses convene in
each Election District. Each Election District chooses delegates to
the Alaska State Republican Convention.
- "District Caucuses choose the election district's delegates to
the Alaska State Republican Convention. Again, there is no formal
system applied in the District Caucus to relate the presidential
preference of the District Caucus delegates to the choice of the
election district's delegates to the Alaska State Republican
Convention. The delegates in attendance at each District Caucus alone
determine if presidential preference is to be a factor and, if so, how
it is to be applied."
Friday 19 May and Saturday 20 May 2000: The Alaska State Republican Convention convenes.
The State Convention chooses all 23 delegates from Alaska to the
Republican National Convention.
- "There is no formal system of allocating Alaska's National
Convention delegates to presidential contenders. (Only as of 19 May
will ANY of Alaska's 23 Republican National Convention delegates have
been allocated to presidential contenders: it is quite probable that
the field of Republican presidential contenders on 19 May might very
well be very different from the way that same field looked at the time
the Alaska Precinct Caucuses took place back on 24 January!)"
