Hillary Supporters unite....no bashing please! only smiles

[DISUNC]

Hillary is now ahead with 39% of the precients in in Texas!

Its close

Clinton 49.57%
Obama 48.57%

 

[JARNJ3]

Hey guys, I just got home from the caucus. It was insane! I'm glad that I only live in the suburbs... if I lived in Dallas or Houston I'd be there all night. Soooo many people showed up and they weren't expecting the turn out they had. The guy in charge of my precinct said that they had a caucus in 2004 and only 15 people came. Tonight there were probably at least 2-300, and again, I’m just off in the suburbs of the suburbs and that location only held a few precincts .. who knows how many has showed up in the larger cities.

The only thing – it seemed that mainly Obama supporters were there – on my sign-in sheet (you have to write down which candidate you are for) I was the only Clinton listed.

You can't convince me that the whole Texas caucus thing is legit. I don't get why Texans have to or want to vote twice!

Can someone get me the history of why Texas invented its system?

 

[DISUNC]

As Ohio goes....so goes the nation!!!!!

No President since 1964 has won the WH without winning Ohio!

 

[DISUNC]

BTW she won HUGE in OHIO!

 

[TIGGER'SFRIEND]

Come On Texas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Planogirl]

Texas has let me down so many times - the current President, the current governor and so on. I just can't stand the stress and I'm out for now.

Keep the faith everyone!

 

[JARNJ3]

Listening to her now in OH. I think she's doing great!!!!

And NO - she's not dropping out!!!!!!

I am so proud for her and her supporters!!!!!!!

 

[chisnpeke]

As Ohio goes....so goes the nation!!!!!

No President since 1964 has won the WH without winning Ohio!

O-H-I-O!

BTW she won HUGE in OHIO!

 

[JennyMominRI]

COngrats on Ohio and RI Hillary fans.

 

[Free4Life11]

Listening to her now in OH. I think she's doing great!!!!

And NO - she's not dropping out!!!!!!

I am so proud for her and her supporters!!!!!!!

Wish I could be there!

 

[va32h]

You can't convince me that the whole Texas caucus thing is legit. I don't get why Texans have to or want to vote twice!

Can someone get me the history of why Texas invented its system?

There's an explanation of sorts here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19211076&ft=1&f=1012

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

I still think if she wins the popular vote in Texas and loses the caucus it's a good thing to go to the superdelagates and make her case. That along with the 250,000 voters in the washington caucus where he wins 2-1 and gets a huge amount of the delegates (53 to 25) vs. the Washington primary that didn't count a few weeks later with 700,000 voters that he wins by 6% where the difference in delegates would be a handful.

 

[chris1gill]

As Ohio goes....so goes the nation!!!!!

No President since 1964 has won the WH without winning Ohio!

And this year will be no different? We should write off all states/delegates that were pledged elsewhere or who have not been cast yet at all on the Democratic side? Well, that has been said already, so it's okay.... You could be right however, John McCain won in Ohio tonight.... Congratulations to both Ohio winner's on this night.

 

[chisnpeke]

I read something in the paper today that Hillary said: "I'm not afraid to get in a fight for you." I LOVE that.

 

[chris1gill]

I still think if she wins the popular vote in Texas and loses the caucus it's a good thing to go to the superdelagates and make her case. That along with the 250,000 voters in the washington caucus where he wins 2-1 and gets a huge amount of the delegates (53 to 25) vs. the Washington primary that didn't count a few weeks later with 700,000 voters that he wins by 6% where the difference in delegates would be a handful.

I think you've hit on something rather important, the popular vote... who has the popular vote, that would really be the best democratic way to find the next nominee.

 

[DISUNC]

Check out the light blue in the Texas Map

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#TXDEMMAPprimary

 

[va32h]

And another article explaining the "screwy" Texas system, if you don't want to listen to the NPR story:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=bd26ba8d-d2b4-479f-a949-142a9e5771ff

 

[JARNJ3]

And another article explaining the "screwy" Texas system, if you don't want to listen to the NPR story:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=bd26ba8d-d2b4-479f-a949-142a9e5771ff

Thanks for the article.

I still say its weird and needs to change! LOL

I'm from NJ - we feel we can demand these things.......

 

[Planogirl]

Check out the light blue in the Texas Map

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#TXDEMMAPprimary

OK, one more post.

So far it appears that Obama is taking the highly populated areas of Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Austin & Hill Country. However San Antonio is light blue and so are Corpus Christi and El Paso. There are no other highly populated counties still out with the possible exception of a few in the Panhandle and those are not THAT well populated.

One question, what's with the southern county that went to Dodd? Some of those counties only have a handful of people.

 

[Planogirl]

Oops, Dodd disappeared. I promise that one county had "Dodd" leading for a while.

Another thing, the border counties are of course going for Hillary so far. Voter turn out will make such a difference!