Obama Wins Texas Caucus
Sen. Barack Obama has been determined the winner of the Texas Democratic Caucus. This will actually give Obama more delegates from Texas, than his rival Hillary Clinton, who won the Primary for Texas.
But allocating delegates in the Lone Star State takes a “Texas two-step.” After the polls closed, more than 1 million Texans also attended caucuses, the results of which determine how about one-third of the state’s delegates get awarded.
The state Democratic Party estimates that Obama will come out ahead: 37 pledged delegated to Clinton’s 30 delegates. But the official tally of the Texas caucus won’t be ready for months.
The end result of the Texas caucuses was that attendees picked delegates. These delegates will then go on to attend a county convention in late March to caucus. Then, the delegates from the county convention must go to the state convention and hold another caucus. The whole Texas process will not be wrapped up until June.
If the numbers stand as they are now, Obama could come out ahead in the Texas contests by just three delegates.
Source: NPR
Sphere: Related ContentObama Wins Wyoming Caucus
Sen. Barack Obama (IL) has won the Wyoming Democratic Caucus. It appears that when the final numbers are tallied Obama will take Wyoming with at least 58% of the caucus vote. Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) was not expected to win in Wyoming, so this isn’t a surprise. The next contest is the Mississippi Primary where Obama is also expected to win.
Sphere: Related ContentObama Gets Out The Broom
Sen. Barack Obama got his broom out Saturday, because he sweep the Democratic primaries and caucuses. Obama won Washington, Virgin Islands, Nebraska, and Louisiana. As this Democratic race keeps getting more and more tense be prpared to get on your galoshes, because it is going to get muddy.
”Today, voters from the West Coast to the Gulf Coast to the heart of America stood up to say ‘yes we can’” Obama told a cheering audience of Democrats at a party dinner in Richmond, Va.
He jabbed simultaneously at Clinton and Arizona Sen. John McCain, saying the election was a choice between debating the Republican nominee-in-waiting “about who has the most experience in Washington, or debating him about who’s most likely to change Washington. Because that’s a debate we can win.”
Clinton preceded Obama to the podium. She did not refer to the night’s voting, instead turning against McCain. “We have tried it President Bush’s way,” she said, “and now the Republicans have chosen more of the same.”
She left quickly after her speech, departing before Obama’s arrival. But his supporters made their presence known, sending up chants of “Obama” from the audience as she made her way offstage.
Obama’s winning margins ranged from substantial to crushing.
He won roughly two-thirds of the vote in Washington state and Nebraska, and almost 90 percent in the Virgin Islands.
With returns counted from nearly two-thirds of the Louisiana precincts, he was gaining 53 percent of the vote, to 39 percent for the former first lady. As in his earlier Southern triumphs in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, Obama, a black man, rode a wave of African-American support to victory in Louisiana.
Source: MSNBC
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Sphere: Related ContentHuckabee Wins At Least Two Out Of Three
Mike Huckabee has won at least two out of the three caucuses/primaries that took place on the Saturday after Super Tuesday. Huckabee won Kansas handily and won Louisiana in a squeaker that no one gets any delegates from because of the inability of any candidate to garner 50% of the vote. The Washington State Caucus has still not been called because of the closeness of the candidates, currently McCain holds a slight lead over Huckabee with Ron Paul not that far behind of either.
Huckabee is continuing to surprise the pundits, as he continues his seemingly unacheiveable goal of beating John McCain to 1,191 delegate. Huckabee is almost 500 delegates behind McCain currently.
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Sphere: Related ContentObama Wins Nebraska and Washington Caucuses
The results are starting to come in from The Nebraska and Washington Caucuses and Sen. Barack Obama is the apparent winner of those contests. This is bound to make this tight race even tighter as Obama is beginning to make up the difference in the delegate count that was the aftermath of Super Tuesday.
Sen. Barack Obama defeated Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state on Saturday, NBC News reported, hoping to chip away at her delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Source: MSNBC
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