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Texas Caucus Results Start Coming In

By Jeralyn

Only 5% in, with Obama at 56% and Hillary 44%.

I'm just looking for Hillary to win the popular vote. That will give her superdelegates a reason to stay with her.

If Obama loses Texas and Ohio, in the popular vote, many Democrats will begin to question whether he can win the big states, especially Ohio, to beat John McCain.

I'm not that interested in the caucuses. I think it's very likely the superdelegates will be deciding this race. Ill be updating this primary vote thread, but here's a place for you to comment on them.

Update: Just heard from a reader who I wrote about this morning. Hillary won his caucus, his report is below:

Wrote to you earlier about my experience at my polling place in Houston. My neighborhood is in the Meyerland/Bellaire area of Houston, a middle to upper-middle class area. Well tonight we had our caucus. By the time it started, I was the only person who had a Clinton credential (the others who were working the location had to go to their precincts to caucus). Of course I wasn't the only Clinton supporter.

Clinton had 76 caucus votes, Obama had 51. So Clinton got 11 delegates to the local convention on March 29th and Obama got 8.

Frankly, this was an tiny but enormous victory for Clinton. Obama had more people outside, more signs (made of plastic and with todays date, so they are headed for the landfill), more everything (donuts, cookies, drinks, including Starbucks coffee...) - they had everything except people who came back and stood for 2 hours to support their candidate.

Of course, none of this is in any way indicative of how any of the other 8000 or so precincts will turn out, but at least anecdotally, it demonstrates that Clinton supporters are a bit more solid behind her than Obama's may be. We're willing to go all the way, and I certainly hope Clinton is as well.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).