RK77

The county conventions were held in Texas and Obama is clearly winning there ---and big time!


With 133 of the 284 counties reported:

Clinton -- 43.97%
Obama -- 56.03%

You can watch them continue to report here tomorrow.

Gobama 08!

Awesome.Thank you Texas!

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Gobama 08!

The Field Projects Obama Winner of Texas Conventions


The numbers keep rolling in over at Burnt Orange Report.

The Field projects Obama to win today’s Democratic conventions in Texas by a comfortable margin which will give him an advance of between 9 and 11 Democratic National Convention delegates when all is said and done.

Of the 4,407 state convention delegates yet to be determined, 893 will come from Dallas (where Obama is so far winning 65 percent of the votes) and from Houston (where Obama is so far winning 75 percent of the votes). Other key Obama strongholds are yet to come in, and together outnumber the Clinton strongholds (San Antonio, El Paso and others) yet to be counted.

Essentially, Obama is outperforming throughout the state except for in the (largely counted) Rio Grande Valley region and in the northernmost parts of the Texan Panhandle, where Clinton has overperformed. But the math should guarantee a victory for Obama when the tallies are all in.

At midnight, with 72.31 percent of all state convention delegates selected:

Obama: 3,106 (56.03 percent)
Clinton: 2,437 (43.97 percent)

We’ll continue updating on Sunday.

Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Al Giordano

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itsmeeeeeee

if these numbers hold, clinton will have OFFICIALLY LOST TEXAS!!!!

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HarperLee

The night of the Ohio and Texas primaries, Chuck Todd on MSNBC
said that the Texas results might not be known until the end of March.
Never mind -- within minutes MSNBC and every other news network
declared Clinton the winner in Texas.

Ed Rendell and Bill Clinton had both said that Hillary needed big wins
in both Ohio and Texas to stay in the race.

I give up.

Gobama 08!

The Field Projects Obama Winner of Texas Conventions (+ Sunday a.m. Update)


The numbers keep rolling in over at Burnt Orange Report.

The Field projects Obama to win today’s Democratic conventions in Texas by a comfortable margin which will give him an advance of between 9 and 11 Democratic National Convention delegates when all is said and done.

Of the 4,407 state convention delegates yet to be determined, 893 will come from Dallas (where Obama is so far winning 65 percent of the votes) and from Houston (where Obama is so far winning 75 percent of the votes). Other key Obama strongholds are yet to come in, and together outnumber the Clinton strongholds (San Antonio, El Paso and others) yet to be counted.

Essentially, Obama is outperforming throughout the state except for in the (largely counted) Rio Grande Valley region and in the northernmost parts of the Texan Panhandle, where Clinton has overperformed. But the math should guarantee a victory for Obama when the tallies are all in.

Sunday Morning Update:

The results of the controversially-handled Senate District 26 convention in San Antonio are finally in:

Clinton 126 delegates (60 percent)
Obama 84 (40 percent)

With one district left (with only 40 delegates left to be chosen) San Antonio is now at Clinton 257 delegates (58 percent), Obama 185 (42 percent): a margin of only 72 delegates. Not enough to put a dent in the big lead Obama racked up yesterday. Here’s the current tally:

Obama: 3280 delegates (56 percent)
Clinton: 2580 (44 percent)

With only 1,806 delegatees left to count, 790 – almost half - are from the following places where Obama won big:

312 from Tarrant SD 10 (Fort Worth)
196 from Harris 7 (Houston)
180 from Collin (in Dallas-Fort Worth metro, which votes today)
102 from Jefferson (Beamont)

There are only 40 delegates left to be chosen that will come from a populous Clinton territory:

40 from Bexar 21 (San Antonio)

The remaining just-under-1,000 delegates are mostly from smaller, rural counties where typically the delegates are being divided 50-50 or 2-1 or 3-2 or 4-3, and come from a mix of regions that favored each camp. Clinton might win more of them, but not by a significant margin.

When all is counted, Obama should be up by 500 delegates or more, meaning probably 9+ delegates, maybe 11+, confirming him as the clear winner of Texas overall.

And there’s still the chance for slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip: All these 7,000-plus delegates have to haul ass to Austin on June 6 for the state convention. We saw a lot of absenteeism yesterday in home regions. Getting to Austin from Lubbuck or El Paso or Texarkana is a major expense. With the Clinton campaign virtually broke, and likely even more so in June, it probably won’t be able to afford to pay for the gas and other expenses for so many people, whereas the Obama campaign, being flush to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, will probably do what is necessary to get its delegates there: that will be three days after the final primaries across the nation. Which campaign do you think can pick up a few more delegates simply by turning out its troops to the convention?

Also of Note: A DKos diary from Melody Townsell of Dallas about the ten hours of challenges that the Clinton campaign made against 22 elected delegates. Such tactics didn’t help them in the end result, which was: Obama 82 percent, Clinton 18.

Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Al Giordano

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The_Heretic

By a landslide.

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"Enough!!" -so rang Barack Obama's voice off the walls of Mile High Stadium