Turning Texas Blue

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Chris @ 12:59 am
2008-03-05

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Projection: Obama will win the most delegates in Texas

Hillary Clinton won tonight’s popular vote in Texas, but it appears as though Barack Obama will win the most delegates from Texas.
The best primary delegate analysis is this spreadsheet, being updated live by the Burnt Orange Report crew. As it stands, at 1:00, Clinton is up by only 1 delegate, despite being over [...]


Hillary Clinton Comes Back, Wins: Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island

Hillary Clinton has turned her flagging campaign around in Texas and Ohio. Results from the Texas primary and from Ohio show Clinton will win the two states. Clinton’s Texas win was very close only 3% lead over Obama. I know I predicted it would be a 5 point lead but that wasn’t too far [...]


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Michael @ 10:38 pm
2008-02-13

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TTB Covers Noriega Debate

Democratic U.S. Senate candidates looking to toss out the incumbent, Texas Senator John Cornyn, debated tonight at UT-Austin. Our very own contributor, Roy, was in attendance at the UT-Austin Noriega debate to provide our first-hand coverage of the debate.
Stay tuned for our exclusive debate coverage.


Post-Potomac Popular Vote Update

Post-Potomac Update:
I previously broke out the numbers for the voter turn-out in the Primaries and promised to update it with caucus numbers. Well, MSNBC has done it for me.
Obama has a slight lead over Hillary in the overall popular vote. MSNBC breaks the numbers down for all the contests including caucuses.
I would note at [...]


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Michael @ 12:46 am
2008-02-12

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More Feedback, Latinos on Welfare Issue

My take on the previous anonymous reader’s criticism of Latinos on welfare:
Unfortunately for Hispanics that choose democratic all the way, we are giving the political party exactly what they want. We are giving them control over our rights, making us more dependent on them. Democrats crying rally is that “We want to help you”. What [...]


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Michael @ 5:18 pm
2008-02-11

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Tejano Democrats Endorsed Hillary

The Tejano Democrats, a statewide organization, met and voted over a year ago (unlike some Culinary Union I know) in Austin to overwhelmingly endorse Senator Hillary Clinton in Texas.
“We have known Hillary Clinton for 35 years. Hillary knows Texas, and has worked with our community in our state,” said former State Senator and current [...]


Posted by
Chris @ 2:55 pm
2008-02-10

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Texas primaries are weird

Everything You Need To Know About the Texas Delegate Process
In Texas, you have to vote once with your ballot, and then again with your presence at a caucus-like event. Can’t these crazy Texans ever do anything nomally?