Obama to Win Texas Caucus, More Delegates Than Clinton

Obama to Win Texas Caucus, More Delegates Than Clinton

While it’s true Hillary Clinton won the Texas Democratic Primary, Obama has now been projected the winner of the Texas Democratic Caucus and, as a result, he’ll be picking up more delegates from Texas than Hillary will.

Story on it from Political Ticker:

(CNN) — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has won the Texas Democratic caucuses and will get more delegates out of the state than his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won the state’s primary, according to CNN estimates.

Under the Texas Democratic Party’s complex delegate selection plan, Texas voters participated in both a primary and caucuses on March 4. Two-thirds of the state’s 193 delegates were at stake at the primary, while the remaining third were decided by the caucuses.

An additional 35 superdelegates were not tied to either contest. Clinton, of New York, defeated Obama in the primary by a 51-47 percent margin. But results of the caucuses were up in the air on election night and for several days afterward, due to state party rules that did not require local caucus officials to report their results to a centralized location.

Partial caucus results, representing 41 percent of all caucus precincts, showed Obama last week with 56 percent of the county-level delegates chosen at the caucuses to 44 percent for Clinton. The state party says it will not be able to provide a further breakdown of the caucus results from March 4.

This story is still developing, I’ll have an update tomorrow with more information on it.

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One Response to “Obama to Win Texas Caucus, More Delegates Than Clinton”

  1. It’s nice to know politics will always consist of footnotes and asterisks.

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