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Texas: 65% of Primary Vote In, Hillary Ahead

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:34:24 PM EST
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Update: Hillary wins Texas. New thread here. This one is closing.

Update: It's now 66% and Hillary has a 55,000 vote lead.

Update: 55% of vote is in, Hillary leads by 55,000 votes.

Okay, it's down to Texas. 50% of the primary vote is in, and Hillary is ahead. She leads by 30,000 votes.

Hillary has swept through rural Texas. Obama has Dallas and Houston, but she has San Antonio by 12%. She'll also take El Paso and the South.

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    Texas: 65% of Primary Vote In, Hillary Ahead | 38 comments (38 topical)
    Anyone have a good recipe. . . (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by LarryInNYC on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:36:46 PM EST
    for my hat?

    Looks like I'll be eating it.

    French (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by Stellaaa on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:39:19 PM EST
    Chapeau in a Chardonay sauce with champignons.

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    Larry, is your hat a stetson? (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:43:20 PM EST


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    hot sauce goes well with it. (5.00 / 1) (#18)
    by hellothere on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:51:18 PM EST
    i have eaten a few in my time.

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    I ate a hat (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by blogtopus on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:53:15 PM EST
    that had a crow mounted on top. It's a fairly easy thing to fall into. :-P

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    Blogtopus, did you forget to swallow your (5.00 / 1) (#29)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:59:26 PM EST
    Bitter Pill?

    *Hats off to you guys with a sense of humor.

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    To quote a 90's teenager (none / 0) (#30)
    by blogtopus on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:01:28 PM EST
    Dude, a sense of humor is just about all we have left. Aside from D&D (RIP Gary Gygax).

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    a nice marinade, perhaps (none / 0) (#6)
    by Nasarius on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:07 PM EST
    Gotta tenderize it somehow.

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    well (none / 0) (#14)
    by Fredster on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:49:43 PM EST
    As we do in Louisiana, first you make a roux...


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    I am on the edge of my seat (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by vigkat on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:37:23 PM EST
    "If she wins Texas and Ohio, she'll be the nominee."  Bill Clinton

    And the next President a Dem, as well.. (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Salt on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:42:37 PM EST


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    Obama is speaking (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by vigkat on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:40:22 PM EST
    in Texas.  Looking confident.  I wonder how he really feels?  Ah, I think he is about to tell us.  He congratulates her.  Thanks Vermont.  Insists he has more delegates.

    Does Obama have a teleprompter again? (none / 0) (#11)
    by jawbone on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:42:54 PM EST
    He only speaks this fluently when he has one.

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    Ok now brace yourself whenever Hillary wins (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by Salt on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:35 PM EST

    Obama campaign makes and outrageous claim of her picking on poor Obama in some way the following day..so the media Tweety and the Sillyball crowd discuss how O was slighted instead of Hillary's win.  

    Obamans didn't even wait a day (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Cream City on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:47:14 PM EST
    this time, filing suit already. By the time we get to Pennsylvania, they probably will have filed their complaint a week before.

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    Obama just said an "elderly woman" (none / 0) (#16)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:50:42 PM EST
    sent him a "money order for $3.01, with a verse of scripture tucked inside it". Shouldn't he be waving it around and reading that scripture. That would be good drama.

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    An elderly woman--over 45? (5.00 / 5) (#23)
    by oculus on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:54:12 PM EST


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    Jeralyn, pardon me if this is OT... (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by Maria Garcia on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:52 PM EST
    ..but I really like how you use pictures on these threads that make both candidates look good. They look great together. Sigh.

    Hehe (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by Steve M on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:57 PM EST
    Every time Hillary would close the gap from the early voting by a couple more thousand, my wife would get so darn excited.  When Hillary took the lead, just before bedtime, she was totally ecstatic.

    She'll be really bummed if she wakes up tomorrow to find out that Clinton didn't hang on, but at leaset she's been spared the agony of sitting through all the nailbiting.

    To think my vote might get to count (5.00 / 2) (#17)
    by BarnBabe on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:50:47 PM EST
    I am very happy because I am in Penna and I just might get to have a say in the primary even in April.  Now I am getting excited. Finally.

    It's such a great rhetorical flourish that (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:55:50 PM EST
    Clinton took Barack's "yes we can" and turned it into "yes we will". That must bite.

    He's talking a steady blue streak; no pauses or modulation of pitch, tone, pace or volume.

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    yup, i noticed "yes, we will." also (none / 0) (#37)
    by hellothere on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:49:51 PM EST
    there was another variation too of another comment obama uses. but right now i am tired and my mind refuses to go there.

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    I know what you mean. (5.00 / 2) (#28)
    by CytoEric on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:58:37 PM EST
    I live in MS so my vote won't count for too much, but I am very excited anyways.

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    I don't know what percentage of Houston and Dallas (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by Angel on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:52:30 PM EST
    have come in but we need to be cautious because BO will carry those with very high percentages.  I'm praying South Texas and the rest of the state will be enough for Hillary!

    My kneejerk guess (none / 0) (#22)
    by blogtopus on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:54:12 PM EST
    would be that south Texas is more hispanic than north Texas. Is this a correct assumption?

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    South Texas is very hispanic. (5.00 / 1) (#34)
    by RalphB on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:03:33 PM EST


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    South Texas IS Hispanic country. Dallas/Houston (5.00 / 1) (#36)
    by Angel on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:15:39 PM EST
    AA country.  West Texas is White country.

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    He got a bit teary, didn't he? (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by Robot Porter on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:54:31 PM EST
    Wonder where he got that idea from?

    Toobin just said Clinton has survived (5.00 / 2) (#33)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:03:00 PM EST
    "three near death experiences" in the short span of this primary - nice way of putting it. Eeech, it's Lou Dobbs.

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    She's fifty grand ahead now (5.00 / 2) (#25)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:54:39 PM EST


    Dunno (none / 0) (#3)
    by chrisvee on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:39:14 PM EST
    He's got big numbers still coming in from Dallas and Houston.  I'm on the edge of my seat, frankly.

    Well, I have to go to bed and I'm so worried. I (none / 0) (#15)
    by derridog on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:50:24 PM EST
    get encouraged on this blog, but even Taylor Marsh says that Hillary's numbers can't hold because of the population of the cities Barack is expected to win.  

    That makes sense to me until I go to the exit polls and see how many women and men voted and what the ratio of their votes were for Hillary and Barack. Then it seems to me impossible (if the exit polls are correct) for her to lose Texas.

    What do other people think about this? I'm about to fall asleep on my computer, but it would nice to have some encouraging words before I drift off.

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    exit polls... (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by mindfulmission on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:53:18 PM EST
    ... have large margin of errors.  

    And because this race is so close, being off by 1-2% would turn the results the other way.

    We can't rely on exit polls for this one.

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    not to worry (5.00 / 1) (#31)
    by joei on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:01:59 PM EST
    clinton has big south counties where she is beating 75 to 25

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    west and the rest (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by joei on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:02:56 PM EST
    she will hold her lead

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    the latino population outnumbers the (none / 0) (#38)
    by hellothere on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:51:25 PM EST
    aa population in both houston and harris counties. so i wouldn't count on an obama victory there.

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    CNN Projects Clinton wins Texas!!! (none / 0) (#39)
    by DandyTIger on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:52:06 PM EST


    Comments closing here, new thread (none / 0) (#40)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 12:09:22 AM EST
    on Hillary winning Texas is here.

    Texas: 65% of Primary Vote In, Hillary Ahead | 38 comments (38 topical)