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Texas And More on Delegate Counts

By Big Tent Democrat

Big Tent Democrat

Hillary Wins Texas says CNN.

Clinton is stretching her lead, up 70,000 with 75% in.

Texas is close. And Hillary has the Latino vote to thanks for that. In El Paso, Hillary is winning by 70-30 with 12% of the returns in. In Webb County, she is winning 77-21, with the votes just started.

We'll keep watching this race until it is called.

On an another note, the delegate race looks promising for Hillary tonight. After Gloria Borger said that Vermont (which divided 9-6 for Obama) would provide the largest delegate margin, CNN currently projects Ohio to provide Hillary a 46-24 delegate advantage with many to be decided. In Rhode Island splits 5-1 currently for Hillary with 15 to be decided. Texas remains to be seen. So far tonight, Hillary has gained 23 delegates with many still to be decided. [More...]

One last thing, for the first time in this campaign, we seem to have had a real Bradley Effect in its classic sense. Obama substantially underperformed the exit polling in all the states so far, including Vermont. The exit poll called Ohio and Rhode Island close. Obama was trounced by double digits in both states. Texas remains to be seen. Obama was trounced by Clinton with whites, women, the working class and Latinos. the questions remain about Obama's ability to win big contested states if he can not perform in these demographics. The Obama fans will play ostrich about these issues, but the issues are there.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).