On the other hand, maybe you just swallow it. Getting petty now would hardly disguise the fact that your candidate, even with the backing of the main party institutions and the islands' unions, was swept away here by a Pacific tsunami. Surfer boy Obama rode the half-pipe. Hillary was crushed by it.

For fans of democracy what happened here was pretty thrilling. Consider: in past Hawaii caucuses the total number of votes cast up and down the archipeligo has sometimes been as low as 5,000. Realising, things might be different this time - Obama being a native son and all - party officials printed off 17,000 ballot papers. And how many people actually showed up, standing in line sometimes for more than an hour, unable to park their cars and confused by the chaos?  No fewer than 37,182. No wonder it became a bunfight and final results weren't out until almost midnight.

So leave it alone. Hawaii may have run an utterly botched caucus election on Tuesday that would make the hanging chads saga of Florida seem almost textbook by comparison. But there was a reason things went haywire. Unfettered Obamamania.