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Hillary won TX primary, but She's lost the Caucus to Obama
The media keeps spinning that Hillary's won Ohio and Texas, when she just won Ohio and tied in Texas.
Hillary barely swooped passed Obama in the Texas primaries with 4% of the votes over him. She is trailing Obama in the Texas caucus by the double-digits. 56% Obama to Hillary's 44%.
The vote count seem to have stopped at 41% of the precincts reporting, but it doesn't look like Hillary won this.
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Barely swooped by Obama in the Texas primary??
You must be blind... or crazy! Look at the map of Texas. There are 254 counties in all. Obama only won 24 of them. She won 230. Sounds like a victory to me...especially since he outspent her three to one.
As far as the caucauses go...41% counted is not even half the vote. It could still go either way. Winning Texas and Ohio was a big deal for Hillary and a big disappointment for Obama...no matter how you try to spin it!
March 10, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's actually more impressive is the delegate allocation in the primaries. If the figures in the msnbc tally are correct, Senator Clinton won 92 delegates in the primaries, and Senator Obama won, you've got that right, 92 delegates!
That's astonishing! And now he is winning the caucuses, meaning that he will come out of Texas with a higher tally of delegates than Senator Clinton.
That is what has the Clinton camp so very worried. And that's why they seem to be divided over what to do in Florida, with so many surrogates now vehemently arguing against even a re-do vote. Because they realize that she may win the popular vote in Florida by a small margin and still lose the delegate count. She might carry southernmost Florida which is a NY retirement colony, and a good portion of the Latino vote which is passionate and ordinarily heavily Republican, and still lose the rest of the state from anywhere north of Tampa to Tallahassee, severely narrowing her margin of victory. Compared to Texas which she won by less than 4%, Florida has proportionally a larger African American population (15.8%), and in reverse a smaller Latino poulation (20.2% compared to 35.7% in Texas).
But there is no dismissing the face value of a popular vote victory, no matter how marginal.
March 10, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
{You must be blind... or crazy! Look at the map of Texas. There are 254 counties in all. Obama only won 24 of them. She won 230. Sounds like a victory to me.}
Or perhaps the OP can count.
Those '24' counties just happen to contain over 85% of the population of Texas. Most of the HIllary counties consist of illegal immigrants, dust, and tumbleweeds.
Apparently you missed the memo, maggi. The winner is the one with the most VOTES - not the most COUNTIES.
March 11, 2008 2:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Texas is the perfect example of how unrepresentative the caucus process. About 3 million people voted by ballot and Clinton won by about 4% yet the caucus, involving only a fraction of the 3 million has Obama winning by 12% or whatever.
It's time to do away with caucuses.
March 11, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
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