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According to CNN, only 39 percent of the votes in the Texas Caucus, which awards 1/3 of the Lone Star State’s delegates, have been counted. Obama’s up 56-44.
Why in the heck would it take longer to count the votes in a caucus — which takes place instantly and involves a relative few people — than in the primary?
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This story tells the El Paso side of the caucus mess…
None of this is new to the Democrat Party, and that ain’t just GOP rage-boy nonesense. The whole caucus system is bizarre, confusing, frustrating and not really in line with Texan ideals — at least, West Texas ideas of “talk slow, talk quietly, say what you mean and shut up.”
The divisiveness and confusion appear to be hallmarks of an all-inclusive, every-voice-counts-equally mindset among Democrats that waters-down agendas, creates self-serving sub-groups and ultimately leads to the Dems losing out, as so often, to the GOP. Dems so often are divided to the point of conquering themselves. Repubs just go in and mop up.
The divisiveness and confusion appear to be hallmarks of an all-inclusive, every-voice-counts-equally mindset among Democrats that waters-down agendas, creates self-serving sub-groups and ultimately leads to the Dems losing out, as so often, to the GOP. Dems so often are divided to the point of conquering themselves. Repubs just go in and mop up.
The Clinton Agenda…split the party at all costs
According to CNN, only 39 percent of the votes in the Texas Caucus, which awards 2/3 of the Lone Star State’s delegates, have been counted.
Texas has 228 delegates. Only 67 (or thereabouts) are tied to the caucuses.
When (and how) did 67 become 2/3 of 228?
How does Hillary win the popular vote in TX by almost 100,00 give or take and somehow is behind in the caucus by 10%?
Simple. More Obama voters attended the caucuses than did Clinton voters. Just because you voted in the primary is no guarantee that you would go back for the caucus.
According to the Houston Chronicle (perishable link) as of 11:36pm last night:
Projections released Wednesday afternoon by the Texas Democratic Party based on still-incomplete caucus returns indicated that Obama would receive 98 delegates elected Tuesday to Clinton’s 95.
Clinton led Obama in delegates selected as a result of primary voting, 65 to 61, while Obama appears headed for a 37-to-30 edge among delegates selected through the caucuses.
Including elected officials and party leaders with automatic “superdelegate” status, the two candidates are dead even at 107 Texas delegates, with 14 superdelegates still uncommitted.
As for why it takes so long to complete: Everyone knows that getting the dead people in Duval County to vote in alphabetical order is a bitch, since they all have to use the same sign-in pen and handwriting.
