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Texas County Convention Results

By Jeralyn

The results are coming in from the Texas county conventions.

Early results tallied by The Associated Press showed that Clinton had 301 delegates, or 60 percent, compared to Obama's 202 delegates, or 40 percent. That's out of about 7,300 delegates expected to be selected at about 280 county and senate district meetings across the state Saturday.

The major metropolitan areas which should go heavily for Obama aren't in yet. There were a few surprises.

At the Travis County Senate District 25, after a credentials committee heard complaints, 12 Obama delegates were removed and two Clinton delegates were removed.

In Webb County on the Texas-Mexico border, where Laredo is located, Clinton surprisingly swept all 51 delegates because Obama did not meet the 15 percent threshold of caucus support.

Burnt Orange is tracking the results as they come in. As of 5:45 CT, only 19% of the vote is in. It's going to be a long night.

Today's conventions pick delegates to the Texas state convention. According to the Texas Delegate Selection Plan (pdf),Texas has a total of 228 delegates and 32 alternates. Of those, 126 will be primary delegates, 67 will be caucus delegates and 35 are superdelegates. [More...]

2/3 are chosen by the primary vote in the state's senatorial districts. 1/3 are results of the caucuses held the night of the primary.

In the primary, Hillary won with 51 percent of the vote to Obama's 47 percent.

The senatorial district formulas are based on the Democratic turnout for the 2006 gubernatorial election and 2004 presidential election. Here's the breakdown (pdf). The higher the turnout in those elections, the more delegates the district will get this year.

In all, Texas gets 67 delegates to the national convention and has 34 electoral votes.

Update: Texas voting shenanigans, via You Tube.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 30, 2008 (boomark / email).