Texas Caucus

According to the Dallas Morning News, Barack Obama has won the Texas caucus, with 38 convention delegates, and though he lost the popular-vote count to Clinton (65 to 61 delegates), the combined total (including superdelegates) gives Obama 109 to Clinton's 106 delegates and thus, a win in Texas after...

The news this morning is all about Sen. Clinton's win in Texas. Estimates are that Latino voter turnout contributed to about 2/3 of the votes that she got in the primary, and if the precinct that I visited is any indication she got the same proportion in the caucuses. I...

Last nite we caucused with a minimal amount of cussing. At my polling place there were at least 500 standing in line in 40-degree weather at a fairly large Baptist church. Very exciting for long-suffering Texas Democrats and nice to see so many...

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. Grown men rested their heads on the trestle tables and slept. Fathers cradled children on their laps. Cadres of women--mothers and daughters,...

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Ground Hounds Texas: As Bad as It's Ever Been
Paul of Paul's Roasted Corn ruminated on the economic situation in East Dallas. Paul says he's a Democrat and "ready for change".

What do Sanjaya Malakar and Hillary Clinton have in common? More than an astounding penchant for sounding shrill and one-note, apparently.

With the news Monday that Rush Limbaugh is telling his Texas listeners to take advantage of the open primary rules in their state by voting for Hillary, he has...

The Texas Two-Step is not a primary and a caucus. It is a primary and a "precinct convention." This terminology, alone, has Texans scratching their heads. As a questioner from Dallas TV said in a conference call with the Obama Campaign Friday, "we are getting calls into the station; people...

Bill Clinton has been peppering Hillary supporters in Texas with this warning, "And I can tell you that the other campaign believes Hillary will probably win in the daytime, and then they'll come in at the night and take away the delegates she won in the daytime." This assertion, which...

I got another e-mail invitation to see Bill Clinton--again, I was asked to RSVP, and again, I was given only 24 hours' notice. This appearance was to be in Abilene. The invitation read "7:30" but the Abilene evening news broadcasts were saying, "8:15." In fact, the news anchor for the...

"Look at this place..." University of Washington student Devon Hampton said, as he entered the backroom bar area of Historic Victory Grill in downtown Austin, Texas. Through the diffused blue lighting, we could see the walls were covered with yellowed photos of African American singers and songwriters. The room was...

The difference between the Clinton and Obama Texas ground games going into the Tuesday Two-Step is this: the Clinton field organizers don't know what they're doing; the Obama field organizers know but they're too tired to do it. The Clinton teams are fresh-faced, well-rested Texas women who love and support...

On Friday, February 15, I received two interesting e-mails.

One was from the Clinton campaign, specifically, Bill Clinton, stating that he was going to be appearing in Lubbock, Texas, the next day, Saturday, and asking me to RSVP if I intended to attend. The e-mail arrived in...