Over all, caucus participants split on such an amendment, with 46 percent supporting it and 44 percent opposing it.

About half the caucus participants, for example, said they preferred a flat tax to the present graduated income tax.

Many caucus participants noted that the election of a new Democratic whip this week left the House leadership composed of white men.

Ultimately, one might claim, and not completely facetiously, that the media and candidates outnumber the actual caucus participants.

Meanwhile, you began to like some of the caucus participants.

In others, they are elected by caucus participants on winner-take-all basis.

Later he promised to think about the proposal, the caucus participants were told.

There was 3,409.5 pledged delegates, those committed to vote for a particular candidate, selected by primary voters and caucus participants.

Mr. Gans did not include in his tally the 13 states that have held caucuses, saying there were no reliable counts of caucus participants.

Nearly 25 percent of caucus participants said they were members of the religious right, and 75 percent described themselves as politically conservative.