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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:38 PM
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Bill predicted HRC would lose the TX caucus
Edited on Thu Mar-06-08 07:46 PM by rainbow4321
I doubt his comment made the nat'l news as he was talking to TX but a few days before Tuesday he pleaded with HRC to attend their caucus because it would be a shame "for Hillary to win TX during the DAY only to lose it at NIGHT".
Ding, ding, ding..right on the money..that is exactly what has happened, they knew it was going to happen, they didn't want TX caucus results handed in quickly as the TX Dem party was trying to do, they planned all along if she won the primary vote part of our election that she would spin it as a win for the rest of the week.
And the MSM played along with it..not ONE network said "let's remember, ALL of the TX results will NOT be in for at least 3 days so we CANNOT call the state winner yet". They didn't have the balls. They have gone from chimp lapdogs to HRC lapdogs.

They talked all the previous days about TX's HYBRID primary and then just seemed to conveniently forget about it once they decided to "call the state" for HRC.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:41 PM
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1. Where can I find the latest delegate totals for all four contests?

and, hopefully, from an unbiased source!

TIA.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:43 PM
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2. I've got to give some credit to Chuck Todd
He was saying on MSNBC on Tuesday night that Texas was going to be hard to characterize.
("What color do we paint it? Maybe we should stripe it.") He was drowned out by Tweety,
Scabrous, Bat Puke Annan et al., of course ...
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Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:43 PM
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3. The Texas caucus results show only 41% counted
what's going on?
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:55 PM
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5. Here is why
It was the "voluntary system" that HRC and her people were getting pissed about...they said a rushed caucus results would be "half baked and flimsy". Translated that means they knew she would be LOSING the caucus and that would take away the MSM bullshit that she "won". The TX Dem Party had put $60,000 toward a voluntary "get the caucus results in ASAP" fund in hopes of getting the nation TRUTHFUL results from Tuesday night and her people wanted it stifled.



http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/about_those_texas_caucus_resul.php

A lot of readers have wondered why the Texas caucuses have been so slow to report to the media. The answer: They're not reporting in great numbers anymore, and they don't actually have to.


Hector Nieto, spokesperson for the Texas Democratic Party, explained to Election Central that the caucuses elected delegates to the state Senatorial district conventions that will then elect delegates to the state convention, and weren't required to report to the state party headquarters. The results that have come in came from a voluntary system set up in order to help the media get an idea of what to expect the final delegate result to be.

On the assumption that the current results coming from all around the state represent a decent cross-section of the state as a whole, and that all the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama district delegates show up to their conventions in their proper proportions, we can make an educated guess.

Give or take, Obama would get 37 delegates to Hillary's 30 delegates, netting Obama a +3 delegate advantage for the combined Texas prima-caucus. "This is believed to be a good sample of what's available throughout the state," Nieto said. "And if this trend continues, one could estimate that."

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thevoiceofreason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:52 PM
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4. Here is the link for the current status of the Texas caucuses
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