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Still adding up last night's delegates...

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Posted March 5, 2008 2:20 PM
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by Adam Zoll

While the headlines this morning reported that Hillary Clinton won three out of four states last night—Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, while Barack Obama won in Vermont—it appears that she made only a small dent in Obama’s pledged delegate lead.

The AP is reporting that in Ohio, Clinton won 74-65 in the delegate count, with two delegates yet to be awarded.

Texas is more complicated because it includes both a primary and a caucus. The Texas Secretary of State's web site (http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_state.htm ) reports that (unofficially) Clinton beat Obama 65-61 in pledged delegates from the primary, but the AP reports that Obama is ahead in delegates from the caucus, 30-27, with 10 yet to be awarded.

So as of right now, here’s a look at how last night played out with regard to delegate gains for each candidate: Vermont—Obama +3; Rhode Island—Clinton +5; Ohio—Clinton +9 (2 undetermined); Texas primary—Clinton +4; Texas caucus—Obama +3 (10 undetermined). These leaves Clinton with a net delegate gain of 12 delegates from Tuesday, with another 12 yet to be determined.

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They only have 37% of the caucus results counted as of this time (1:39PM central) so it's stupid to speculate who will win more in the caucus right now. It obviously won't be all counted up until tonight since local party members do the counting in caucuses and that always takes longer than state poll workers.


It just dawned on me that Barack won last night. The Clintons have run out of contests. He will almost certainly go to the convention with more pledged delegates. Hillary only netted a handful last night even though a huge number were up for grabs.


Boy, somebody better be on top of what happened in Ohio. The news has reported that TWICE AS MANY MORE REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS voted in the Democratic primary than there were registered Democrats. For example, if one county or precinct had 10,000 registered Democrats, more than 20,000 Democratic ballots were used up (not even counting absentee ballots). This sure smacks of the voter fraud and machine manipulation that was rampant in Ohio for the 2004 race (See the book, "What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Report of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election," by B. Fitrakis and S. Rosenfeld.


I think Senator Obama will be nominated. I think the Clintonistas will try every (dirty) trick in the book to get Billary nominated such as trying to change the rules in the middle of the game by having the delegates from Florida and Michigan seated. If Senator Obama is denied the nomination by even what appears to be dirty tricks by the Clintonistas, I think black voters will desert the Democratic (a misnomer if there ever was one) Party in droves, as well they should.


"BUSH SPEAKS"

DELEGATES, SMELLIGATES, WE DON'T CARE ABOUT NO STINKIN DELEGATES.

"FIRING OF THE PROSECUTORS WASN'T FOR NOTHING"

Now "confirm" my judges, and give me my IMMUNITY.

"FIRING OF THE PROSECUTORS WASN'T THE FIRST STEP"

The American people had to be sold a serious threat which Iraq placed on America. They Learned in consultation with the "SECRETARY" Homeland Security Council to return the threat level to an "ELEVATATED RISK" of losing the WHITEHOUSE to a black man or "THAT WOMAN" AKA Senator Hillary Clinton.

So its now being raised from "YELLOW to ORANGE" (HIGH). WE HAVE CONCLUDED BASED ON unintelligible intelligence or "ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE" of a possible attack on DICK CHENEY, DAVID FIELDING, ALBERTO GONZALES, KARL ROVE, DAVID ADDINGTON AND MYSELF your "COMMANDER AND CHIEF" UNADJUDICATED CRIMES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

So as we do hope for a "RESPECTFULL CAMPAIGN" the stakes are high." Stay the Course" is important at least until after the elections.


"The Clintons have run out of contests. He will almost certainly go to the convention with more pledged delegates."

Unfortunately, without locking up the nomination that means absolutely nothing. Especially when superdelegates are involved.


Black voters exit in droves? This middle-aged, white woman voter will exit her new party (just joined the Dems Feb. 5, independent prior to that) if Hillary succeeds in her treachery. Thanks for dissolving my excitement at having two great Dem candidates into rancor over the Clintons tactics. Yuk.


Black voters exit in droves? This middle-aged, white woman voter will exit her new party (just joined the Dems Feb. 5, independent prior to that) if Hillary succeeds in her treachery. Thanks for dissolving my excitement at having two great Dem candidates into rancor over the Clintons tactics. Yuk.


It does appear that the Clinton strategy, now that they've noticed there are states in the middle of the country and, unaccountably, their votes actually matter, is to discover a few dozen more such states between now and July.


Obama and his mesmerized are afraid.......when supposedly unbiased newspeople almost cry at the Texas Popular Vote Victory of HRC......something is wrong in this country


Patti: This Dem of 40 years will be going Independent if rules change mid-stream on Florida and Michigan and super-delegates make a decision to go with Hillary Clinton if Barack Obama has more voted delegates. And, I do not know why Clinton is claiming Texas. I live here. The caucus counts will not be completed until tomorrow afternoon, Thursday, maybe. Right now the combined delegate counts have them only one apart with 10 still to be assigned. Bill Clinton helped set up our system and it worked for him. Primary delegates are assigned based on the voter % in the last presidential elections not on who turns out for the current one. Hispanic voters have had a somewhat poor record in voting in the nationals and why they have not acquired more delegates in their districts but add only to a popular vote. I will wait until tomorrow to see who actually 'wins' Texas!


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