Together the two caucuses have 56 members, all Democrats.
Part of my decision will be based upon what the two caucuses offer in that regard.
The three caucuses have agreed to make the retreat a yearly event.
Together, the three caucuses pay out 84 delegates (Idaho 32, North Dakota 28, Alaska 24).
Shortly after the meeting in Harlem, Mr. Paterson's office announced that Stan Lundine, a former lieutenant governor and a Democrat, and John R. Dunne, a former assistant attorney general and a Republican state senator from Long Island, had agreed to serve as mediators between the two Senate caucuses, and asked that both sides meet with the two men on Monday.
More than 220,000 people gathered in caucuses to choose between the two Democrats (and the others on the ballot).
In January, his sudden absence from Current's coverage of the Iowa caucuses led to open warfare between the two sides.
After the initial caucuses and primaries had been split between the two and Dodd had withdrawn, Kennedy became dissatisfied with the tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by Bill Clinton.
He saw Romney as having the advantage in the upcoming caucuses and primaries but anticipated the war of attrition between the two continuing through to at least Super Tuesday on 6 March, when 10 states vote.
With support melting before the state's primary next Tuesday, just as it did before the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Gingrich made a case against the "radical" President Obama and the "moderate" Mr. Romney, sometimes scarcely distinguishing between the two.
