« on: March 07, 2008, 04:39:10 AM »
You'd think that by
now, three days later, they would have figured this out.
Texas Dem Caucus Still Not Decided
Mar 6, 7:25 PM (ET)
By KELLEY SHANNON
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Fewer than half of Texas' voting sites had reported the results by Thursday from Democratic caucuses Tuesday night that were so chaotic and overcrowded by record turnout that police were called to some polling places.
So there's no winner yet for the caucuses, the second stage of the state's Democratic primary, which allocates 67 delegates to the national convention this summer.
As of Thursday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama was ahead with 56 percent to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 44 percent based on reports to state party headquarters by 41 percent of the precinct caucuses. Clinton beat Obama in the first step of Texas' contest, a standard state-run primary. Her 51 percent of the vote, compared to his 47 percent, earned her 65 delegates to his 61 delegates.
One reason for the slow caucus count is that phoning in the results to state party officials is voluntary.
The 8,247 precinct officials are required only to mail the results of their caucuses to their county party chairmen 72 hours after the primary election day. County chairmen don't have to reveal those results until county or state Senate district conventions March 29.
So,
no one knows who wins until
the end of the month!This is something that transplanted Yankees
had to have dreamed up.
The rest of the story is at:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080307/D8V88O900.html
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