Barack Obama Texas Primary

How Winning A Coin Toss Made Me An Obama Delegate

Deanie Mills | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Deanie Mills

Nobody knew what to do with half a delegate. Some conferring took place. They said we'd have to toss a coin -- the other delegate and me. Hillary or Barack? Heads or Tails? Oh Lord how I wish I were kidding.

A Night at the Texas Caucus: Hurry Up And Wait

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

It was a waiting room in Limbo, act three of Jean Paul Sartre play. Most the four hundred in the cafeteria had fallen into resignation, if not coma. ...

Jason Linkins

Your (Slightly Less) Super Tuesday Liveblog

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Good evening and welcome to a liveblog of tonight's Kinda Super But Not Really Tuesday Primary in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont but especially Oh...

Obama On College Trips To Mexico: "I Can't Entirely Talk About It"

CBS News | Maria Gavrilovic | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama took a break from the usual campaigning today, making a stop at the Texas-Mexico border and a local neighborhood festival. He was in the ...

Katrina Evacuees Could Impact Texas Primary Outcome

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Karen Dalton-Beninato

When Hillary Clinton skipped visiting Louisiana just before the primaries, she sent Bill to New Orleans instead. After losing the state, Clinton at...

Republicans To Make Up 10% Of Dems Vote In Texas

MSNBC News | Alex Johnson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


One of Sen. Barack Obama's surest applause lines comes about halfway into his standard stump speech. It goes like this: "They whisper to me. They say...

An Unscripted Barack Obama Preaches Personal Responsibility In Texas

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

The press are checking email, reading Politico and stifling a yawn or two even though it is clear that Barack Obama has caught a live one in Beaumont,...

Obama Sweeps Major Texas Newspapers' Endorsements

Deanie Mills | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Deanie Mills

All Five Major Texas Newspapers Endorse Obama All five major Texas newspapers: the Dallas Morning News, the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Ch...

SEIU Texas, Ohio Spending Nearly $1 Million To Support Obama

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


According to independent expenditure notices filed with the Federal Election Commission, the Service Employees International Union plans to spend more...

Texas Dems' Desire For Party Unity Shapes Clinton's Strategy

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

An hour after the end of the CNN Democratic Presidential Debate in Austin, Hillary Clinton spoke briefly to Democrats at an after-party in a ballroom ...

Clinton's Texas Ground Game Plunges Into Chaos

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

Although the Clinton Campaign has been telling the press that they have the ground operations to pull off a win in Texas, those ground operations ha...

Obama Camp Prepares To Shell Out Big Bucks For TX Votes

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

David Axelrod, the Obama Campaign's chief strategist, spoke to a few reporters inside the mammoth Toyota Center just as Barack himself, to a deafening...

Austin Debate's Doors Essentially Closed To Texas Dems

Kirsten Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Kirsten Anderson

Everything is bigger in Texas--except the number of tickets available for the Democratic debate on Thursday. Texans have been surprised and thrilled...

TX: Clinton Camp Looks To Latino Supporters To Get Out The Vote

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

"RODHAM CLINTON HUSSEIN OBAMA" The Clinton volunteer waves her sign above her head. "Hussein means good," I point out. She isn't listening. "We do...

TX: Bill Clinton Takes Aim At Obama

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

"I was told from time to time I could give a pretty good speech," Bill Clinton says. "I once spoke to a million people, in Accra, Ghana, a million. ....

Republican Gerrymandering Favors Obama In Texas

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

If Barack Obama secures the Democratic presidential nomination, he will owe a small piece of his victory to Ronald Reagan. Could there be a more delic...

Clinton: This Is The "Exciting Part"

Political Radar | Kate Snow and Eloise Harper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, once described going negative as the "fun part." Today in a press availability in Texas, she described the state of the ra...

Houston Key To Unlocking A Texas Win

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

Greater Houston holds more than a quarter of the total Texas delegates that Democratic contenders Clinton and Obama will be fighting over. Two forces...