Reminder: Texas Dems provided inaccurate lists to both campaigns

[Adelante]

While I am sure there are shenanigans going on someplace in Texas today, this is after all a hot race for delegates there, both campaigns may have contacted each other's delegates innocently. Maybe not in every case innocently, yeah, but there is some reason not to jump too quickly with accusations.

Guess What? Obama Is Not 'Poaching' Delegates in Texas

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Turns out that the Obama campaign was correct to claim that the Clinton delegate in question, Christopher Cohen, was misidentified on their working list as an Obama supporter. I have obtained a copy of the spreadsheet and double-checked his entry. Not only that, but three other Clinton supporters who have contacted me to complain about receiving Obama postcards are ALSO identified on the aforementioned spreadsheet as Obama delegates. So the Obama campaign was, in fact, working off a flawed list, and that explains why Cohen and his fellow Clintonites received Obama postcards, which the Obama camp maintains were intended only for their own delegates.

That said, Cohen and the two of the other delegates in question are listed correctly--that is, as pro-Clinton, not pro-Obama--on the website of the Travis County Democrats. Why the discrepancy? Blame the middleman. According to spokesman Hector Nieto of the Texas Democratic Party, "the information that we gave to the campaigns was information given to us by the individual precincts. We then sent that information to a contractor to key it in to a spreadsheet. There's a possibility that an error was made when the information was keyed in." In other words, the precincts reported the correct candidate affiliations to the state party, but an outside contractor likely screwed up when entering those affiliations into a single spreadsheet --meaning that the Clinton and Obama campaigns received lists that incorrectly displayed at least a few Clinton delegates pledged to Obama (and perhaps vice versa).

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/03/28/guess-what-obama-is-not-poaching-delegates-in-texas.aspx



We are already in a hostile situation here in GDP, sometimes with good reasons. This particular one should be viewed skeptically. Not that it will apply in every single case of accused "delegate poaching," but because it won't apply in every single case. Let's try for common sense over speculation and save ourselves at least a bit of aggravation.

So I'm a dreamer :)

[MethuenProgressive]

1. ...but you're not the only one,

:hi:

[Kittycat]

2. That makes total sense. I'll kick for you :)

[PM7nj]

3. But why were people being told it was canceled?

[Adelante]

4. Now THAT'S a definite shenanigan nt