How Many Texas Republicans Crossed Over To Hillary?
And everyone knows, there was Noooooooo Way, Republicans crossed over and interfered with the votes!
Rush Limbaugh put out a call to Republican Texas voters to cross over and vote in the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton. His reasoning behind this was to “rig” the election so as to have the weakest candidate run against the Republican machine in the general election this fall. Yesterday, James reported here that Rush Limbaugh was urging his Texas supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton to help weaken Obama and clear a path for an eventual McCain victory. Yesterday, James was pretty sure that this effort wouldn’t work. However, Dave Weigel has run the numbers and it looks like Rush may have been successful.
With Arizona Sen. John McCain poised to clinch the GOP nomination, some central Ohio Republicans decided to cross over and vote in today’s Democratic primary.
Voters Overwhelm Texas Caucus Officials
Texas not only holds a primary but also caucuses in the evening. One-third of its delegates will be awarded based on the caucus results. Democrats can’t participate in Texas’s caucuses unless they show proof of having voted in the earlier primary.
DALLAS (AP) The Hillary Clinton campaign in Texas says it may mount a legal challenge to the state’s caucus results.
Clinton campaign officials are citing what they call “hundreds of complaints” of mischief caused by the Barack Obama campaign at caucus sites across the state.
Indeed, thousands of traditionally Republican voters helped swell the ranks of the Democrats, with experts projecting that one in 10 of the Democratic votes cast Tuesday were from Republicans.
Some crossed over out of support for Mr. Obama, others were simply dissatisfied with their own party’s choice. Still others supported Mrs. Clinton hoping that by helping extend the Democratic feud, they would leave their own party in a better spot this fall.
Pundits call it the “Texas Two-Step,” the state’s Democratic Party hosts both a primary election, in which 126 delegates are awarded, and a post-election caucus in which another 67 are handed out.
It’s possible for the loser of the primary to win more delegates with a strong showing in the caucuses. And Texas’ method of awarding delegates in the primary — with more delegates coming from large population centers like Houston, Dallas and Austin — further complicates the matter.
Whatever you want to call it, Texas has a tangled caucus process that too few know how to operate. ” Some voters who participated in Democratic Party caucuses were seething Wednesday about what they perceived as a disorganized and possibly undemocratic process.”
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March 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I had a pretty positive experience at my caucus. I wrote my story about it at South by Southwest
March 5th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
What Barack and Hill BOTH need to do now is stop giving the wingtards sh*t to throw at them later.
I would love to hear BOTH of them stand together and state firmly that they are BOTH far preferable to the alternative, and that they will work together to get rid of the embalmed zombie.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:52 am
With all the crowing by the Clinton camp about her victory in the Texas primary, this word is just in from state Democratic officials.
Obama could pick up a net gain of three delegates, after all the dust settles.
Here’s how Democratic officials say that’s possible:
Clinton won the popular vote, and could pick up as many as four delegates from that.
Obama appears to be winning the caucus voting on delegates, and could pick up as many as seven delegates there.
If that holds true, Obama would end up with three more Texas delegates than Clinton.
As much as I appreciate and respect the decent and honorable campaign Barack has run, it’s not the time in a close national primary season to ignore reality and join hands and sing kumbaya.
Obama must go as negative as has Hillary and he must kneecap her immediately.
There is so much negative shit Obama can raise about the Clintons: her refusal to release her tax returns, her refusal to release her records as First Lady, the shady Middle Eastern guys who keep Bill on their payroll and bankrolled his presidential library.
The list goes on and on. But it is up to Obama to determine how badly he wants to win. He is pushing back against the ruthless Clinton machine.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Christopher:
Hillary’s win in Texas was only by a few points, not enough for her to grab the lion share of the delegates. And, as for the convention Obama is ahead on that count.
Obama needs to really question why the phone ringing makes her experienced. I doubt she answered at 3am when Bill was President.
BTW: The convention was interesting, at times confusing and very tiring and I was pick as a delegate going to the county convention.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I have a hard time believing hard nosed Republicans didn’t vote in their local district for Reps. I think you people don’t know many Reps. I’m an Independent, and voted for Obama along with lots of others. However, I’m not gonna whine because he lost. Dems need to get a grip, Obama’s own campaign lost it because of the NAFTA/Canadian crap.