Reply #5: Here is why

[rainbow4321]

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."