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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:49 AM
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Dallas Observer: Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?
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While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
By Mark Donald
Published: February 21, 2008

Contrary to what the national media had you believing, the Democratic presidential primary did not end on Super Tuesday, and Texas is now in play. You figure it's time to get involved. After all, you're a Dallas County Democrat. For the first time in a generation, you are relevant.

It's February 13 and you want to join the grassroots—man a phone bank, block-walk your neighborhood—but you're not sure how to go about it. So you go to hillaryclinton.com and are directed to a page that sorts campaign events by distance and ZIP code. You search for events within a 10-mile radius of 75232, which is part of Texas Senate District 23, the delegate-rich and racially diverse area (blacks do most of the heavy ballot-box lifting) that played a major role in the Democratic courthouse cleaning in the '06 election. You hit the "find" tab and read the results: "Sorry no events were found based on the search above."

You go to mybarackobama.com and are sent through a series of similar prompts. This time, you are informed that there are 15 events that match your search criteria. You expand your search to 50 miles for Obama and come up with 44 hits; doing the same for Clinton, you find 10 events.

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