It’s official, Barack Obama has won the most delegates from the Lone Star State:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama has won the overall delegate race in Texas thanks to a strong showing in Democratic county conventions this past weekend.
Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party’s national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, giving her a total of 94 Texas delegates, according to an analysis of returns by The Associated Press.
Texas Democrats held both a presidential primary and caucus. Clinton narrowly won the popular vote in the state’s primary March 4, earning her 65 national convention delegates to Obama’s 61.
Precinct caucuses began immediately after polls closed primary night and quickly devolved into chaos in many parts of the state because of an unprecedented turnout of more than 1 million Democrats. The state party was never able to provide complete results from the caucuses, which is why the AP withheld nine delegates.
The precinct caucuses elected delegates to about 280 county and state senate district conventions on Saturday. The AP awarded the remaining delegates based on results from Saturday’s conventions, showing Obama with about 58 percent of vote, compared to 42 percent for Clinton.
Obama won 38 delegates through the caucus/convention system, and Clinton won 29.
I think we should officially take this one out of Hillary’s win column.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Democrats, we look forward that you make history for the party, by allowing the first African - America to win the presidential nominee of the party in the coming preseidential election in America, also work hard to see that senator Obama, step into White house, this will be a big history not only in America, but World over, we believe God, will love the American more, if this become reality, let history be made in 2008, as Senator Obama become the landlord of white house, Obama, I wish you the very good best and pray that God will be on your side, Carrry GOOOOO.
Regards,
Lebechi
April 1st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
For the few Hillabots still in denial, I’ll tell you the truth. Even with Clinton receiving over 140,000 votes from Republicans who fraudulently voted Hillary just to screw the party over, when you look at the total number of votes by adding up the primary votes AND the votes cast at the caucases, it is OBAMA WHO IN FACT WON THE MAJORITY OF TOTAL VOTES IN TEXAS AND THE DELEGATE COUNT IN TEXAS AND THUS THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS.
But let’s be pragmatic here, winning a state simply means winning the majority of delegates to the national convention.
Some states distribute delegates through a simple primary vote, other states allow for discussions and hold caucases. Texas assigns delegates through both and then adds them together for the final determination of who won the state. Clinton barely won the primary portion and Obama strongly won the caucas portion, resulting in Obama undisputedly winning Texas.
See, now you understand. Now please go convince all the other Hillary supporters to unite together under our party nominee which is Obama. Each day this infighting continues, the odds of us doing another 4 more years of Bush/McCain increase. For the sake of America and our troops in Iraq, join us and let’s defeat McCain together.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
[...] If these trends continue, of course, then speculation will immediately turn to the idea that Obama could actually win Pennsylvania and deliver a death blow to the Clinton campaign. The danger in that, of course, is that we’ve seen this scenario before. Back in January, an Obama win in New Hampshire would have been a serious blow coming off the surprise win in Iowa, and yet Clinton pulled off a victory. Similarly, on March 4th, there was speculation that Obama would win Texas and Clinton managed to pull off a popular vote victory there, although Obama did win the most delegates in the end. [...]