For What It's Worth, Re- Primary Results in TX:

[snot]

A report from a friend of a friend on the ground:

"hello there,

"i am a texan independent/green, but for the purposes of yesterday's election, i might as well call myself a democrat. i have lived in a rural town near big bend national park for the past two years. before that i lived in brooklyn, ny for five years and in providence, ri for 12. i'm an east coast native contentedly transplanted to the high desert (where some might consider me an "invasive species").

"one of the things i like about living here is the diversity of political opinion...democrats and republicans (and libertarians even), generally speaking, seem to have a mutual respect for one another and for lively, constructive discussion. i have many republican friends. one of them happens to be the republican party chairperson of the county in which i live. being short-handed on election day, and in spite of a clear awareness of my political affiliations, he invited me to help work the poll at tuesday's election. with a fleeting thought as to how a paycheck from the republican party was going to look on my fbi file, i accepted. i was eager for the opportunity to learn about how the texas primary works, to mingle with members of my community, to serve as a check-and-balancer, and to help with the democratic (one hopes...) process in general.

"here in rural texas, we are not obliged to register to a particular party, and individuals are free to choose which primary to vote in. prior to tuesday, a close friend, a fellow democrat, informed me that some of our mutual republican friends were planning to vote for clinton in an effort to get her on the ballot against john mccain in november...since they feel certain that she will be less likely than barack obama to win the national election. i quickly came to realize that the plan to invoke the a-vote-for-hillary-is-a-vote-for-mccain strategy was spreading rampantly among texan republicans.

"i have not seen a single pro-hillary sticker, button, or yard sign in our tri-county area. the only rally held locally for a presidential candidate (for as long as anyone can remember) was held last saturday for barack obama.

"yesterday i sat in the back room of a church in a small sterotypical wild-west town next to the head of the local republican party for 10 straight hours. as the day wore on, he generously supplied me with personal information on the backgrounds of the folks who came to vote. many of those he nodded and waved at across the room were members of the republican party...voting at the democratic table. i asked him repeatedly, "are you sure that person is a republican?" and he would just chuckle and say "of course!". it became amply clear that indeed many, if not most, of the local republicans were voting democratic.

"that there were far fewer clinton supporters at last night's caucuses further illustrates this point...what dyed-in-the-wool republican would go so far as to participate in a caucus or convention for a democrat, no matter how urgent the situation?

"hillary won in texas by 3%. there's not a single doubt in my mind that far more than 3% of those who cast votes for clinton in the state of texas are republicans who not only don't support her, they want to see her lose."

[Diane R]

1. This makes total sense. Another reason to work hard to put Obama over the top.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Not too much.

[ananda]

3. sorry bud, but as we say in Texas..

That dog won't hunt.

If the Reeps are voting for Hillary because
they think she's going to lose, they are
truly stupid.

But I guess we already knew THAT.

[JanusAscending]

10. Why ,in this instance, are they stupid??

I would say "crazy like a fox" 'cause they knew McCain had it sewed up and didn't need their vote. All I can think of the past couple of days is Bre'r Rabbit and the fox. PLEASE don't throw me in that briar patch, PLEASE!! I guess a brick has to hit you in the head before you WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!!

[seabeyond]

14. we had so many republican local races. the fools lost out on chance to vote

important races. i would have like to vote on a couple of them, but i had to vote the dem race. had a couple shit when they had dem stamped on their card too.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Rush Limpballs spent his whole show congratulating himself for the TX results.

Don't know if it can be proven.

[bhikkhu]

5. Interesting take on the TX caucus vs. open vote disparity

Where Hillary won the open primary, Barack the caucus. Of course Barack was supposed to do better in the caucus, but this makes sense as to why he did so much better. It is one thing to cast your vote in a booth, another to get together with your neighbors and publicly support someone who you would really like to see lose.

[seabeyond]

12. not to mention the effort of leaving the house 7:30 at night after comfies on

and dinner had.

[Cha]

6. But, where were rush limpbaughs little bots

during the caucuses? So Obama still got more delegates even with all limpbaugh's gawhawfing.

[apocalypsehow]

11. More than a few of his little bots were posting here, methinks. And still are.

Oddly enough, they always seem to match his message: vote for HRC in the Democratic primary! Very telling, I'd say.

[moobu2]

7. Hillary won more of the DEM base than Borack did, go figure.

[thevoiceofreason]

8. Doubt it.

[JanusAscending]

13. His name is BARACK!!

n/t

[seabeyond]

9. he kick ass in early voting. kicked ass in caucus. what happen day of election

yup.

and being in texas, i know this is true.