Texas presidential caucus winner? Check back in 18 days

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AAS 2/11/08
Texas presidential caucus winner? Check back in 18 days
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Unofficial and incomplete tallies posted online by the state party suggest that Obama won the caucuses by enough of a margin, 56 percent to 44 percent, that he could reap up to 38 delegates from the caucuses compared with Clinton's 29. If that happens, he stands to take more pledged delegates from Texas than Clinton (though that arithmetic leaves out how 35 Texas superdelegates, consisting of U.S. House members and party dignitaries, eventually shake out).

Not so, says Garry Mauro, coordinator of Clinton's Texas campaign. Mauro said his operatives assure him Clinton did as well in each state senatorial district at night as she did in voting during the day, and she may have outperformed her primary vote in caucuses in South Texas.

On Monday, the former party chairman who ushered into place the state's mixed system of a primary and caucus in the 1980s said the caucuses might deserve to fade. "We probably have to go to a pure primary," Bob Slagle said.

His thought was seconded by Molly Beth Malcolm, another former state party leader. "No one (else) has a process like this," Malcolm said. "It's time for a change."

Oh lookie here, who wants to change our caucus system. Why it's none other than Bob Slagle and Molly Beth Malcolm. Well that settles it - they stay. And we'll fight like hell to keep them. :grr:


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