The Note

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 8&#151;<br> -- TODAY SCHEDULE AS OF 9:00 am (all times ET):

—10:30 am: Sen. Edwards attends services at Trinity Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. —10:45 am: Gen. Clark attends services at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn. —11:00 am: Sen. Kerry attends church services at the Deliverance Evangelistic Church, Richmond, Va. —11:30 am: Sen. Edwards attends services at First Baptist Church in South Richmond, Va. —1:00 pm: Rep. Dennis Kucinich visits a caucus site at the Bangor Civic Center, Bangor, Maine —1:00 pm: Polls/caucus sites open in Maine —1:45 pm: Gov. Howard Dean visits a caucus site at Waterville High School, Waterville, Maine —3:00 pm: Gen. Clark attends a "Working for Wisconsin" jobs forum with Gov. Jim Doyle at the Racine Labor Center, Racine, Wis. —3:15 pm: Gov. Dean visits Lewiston High School, Lewiston, Maine —3:15 pm: Sen. Kerry attends a "Rally for America's Future" event at Oscar E. Smith High School, Chesapeake, Va. —3:15 pm: Rep. Kucinich visits a caucus site at Lewiston High School, Lewiston, Maine —3:30 pm: Rep. Kucinich visits a caucus site at Auburn Middle School, Auburn, Maine —4:00 pm: Gov. Dean visits a caucus site at Auburn Middle School, Auburn, Maine —4:00 pm: Sen. Edwards meets with voters at the Carnegie Center for Arts and History, Jackson, Tenn. —4:00 pm: Rep. Kucinch visits a caucus site at Deering High School, Portland, Maine —5:15 pm: Gov. Dean visits a caucus site at Deering High School, Portland, Maine —6:00 pm: Former Vice President Al Gore speaks at the Tennessee Democratic Party's primary celebration party at the Hilton, Nashville, Tenn. —7:00 pm: Sen. Edwards and Gen. Clark speak at the Tennessee primary celebration, Nashville, Tenn. —7:30 pm: Gov. Dean visits a caucus site at Westbrook High School, Westbrook, Maine —8:00 pm: Rep. Kucinich attends a caucus results party at the Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine —8:00 pm: Polls/caucus sites close in Maine. —11:00 pm: Final Maine caucus results expected.

Politics today:

The Maine caucuses are today.

Caucus sites will be open at different times between 1:00 pm and 8:00 pm ET.

24 pledged delegates are at stake. Results will be available beginning at 9:00 pm ET and the state party expects to have a final tally by 11:00 pm ET.

There are no entrance or exit polls in Maine, but it is possible that the Associated Press will declare a winner before the full vote is in.

John Kerry's huge victories in the Washington and Michigan caucuses allowed him to rack up the lion's share of the 204 delegates at stake Saturday.

Kerry has now collected around 19 percent of the 2,161 delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

Kerry is way out in front in the ABC News delegate estimate with 412 overall delegates. This total includes both pledged delegates who are allocated according to states' primary and caucus results, as well as "unpledged" delegates, known as "superdelegates," made up of state party leaders and activists, Democratic governors, members of congress, and former presidents, vice-presidents, and national party chairmen.

Of Note: Due to Reverend Sharpton's strong performance in the 13th and 14th Congressional Districts (Detroit) in Michigan, he won 7 delegates Saturday, which means he bested Senator John Edwards (who won 6 delegates) in the delegate race for the day.

Delegates so far (pledged delegates and superdelegates combined):

Kerry 412 (roughly 19% of the total delegates needed to secure the nomination) Dean 173 Edwards 112 Clark 82 Sharpton 11 Kucinich 2 Delegates needed to win the nomination: 2,161

President Bush has no public events today, while his appearance on "Meet the Press" is played back on tape.

He gets to be the Time magazine cover boy, with this headline: "Believe Him or Not — Does Bush Have A Credibility Gap?" As always, there's plenty of polling data for senior strategist Matt Dowd to look over.