Thursday, March 06, 2008

Did Obama win Texas?

Due to the unusual system in Texas there appears to be increasing evidence that Obama won the Texas caucuses which erases Clinton's slight edge in the primary.  Leave it to Texas to continue to muddy the waters.

As Lisa Pease wrote yesterday:

But there was one big problem. A Texas-sized problem.

The election results from the Lone Star State’s caucuses had only just started coming in.

Texas is the only state in the union that allows people to legally vote twice: once in the primary, and once in their local caucus, or, as they are called in Texas, “precinct conventions.”

Roughly two-thirds of the pledged delegates (126) are determined by the outcome of the primary, and the remaining delegates (67) are determined by the results of the caucuses.

Only those who have already voted in the primary are allowed to vote in a caucus.

When the media proclaimed Clinton the victor in Texas, the caucus results were simply not part of the equation. But now that more than 24 hours have passed, something fascinating is happening.

Obama appears to be winning Texas.

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