Tuesday, April 01, 2008

The Fat Lady is Singing

photo: Obama rolls in Altoona, PA; Seattle Intelligencer
As reported in this space previously Senator Barack Obama is winning more delegates that Senator Clinton in Texas even though she won the popular vote (51%-47%) and the media spin war. The Associated Press reports that Obama has won 59 percent of the delegates headed to the state party's June convention to Clinton’s 41 percent. That translates into 1,858 delegates for Obama and 1,270 for Clinton. In Texas's multi-layered delegate selection process 67 of its 206 national convention delegates are selected by the June state party convention. In a sometimes chaotic process lasting into the night in many places, participants in district conventions became frustrated, annoyed and left early not knowing if their votes would be counted. Read the full story at www.star-telegram.com/news/story/552303.html Had enough of the Clintons' scorched earth campaign? Join us.