3.07.2008

Correction: Obama Won In Texas Delegate Count

"The Morning News
Local News for Northwest Arkansas

Correction: Obama Won In Texas Delegate Count
By John Brummett
THE MORNING NEWS

You may have received incorrect information about what happened in the Democratic presidential race the other night. There is the widespread impression that Hillary Clinton won Texas.

It looks like Barack Obama may well have.

I'll explain in a minute, but first, the larger picture: After all is said and done, it appears that Hillary will have gained maybe a half-dozen or so delegates nationally Tuesday night.

It appears that she remains behind Obama somewhere between 140 and 150 in earned delegates. And now she doesn't have so many big friendly states in which to make up that ground.

Her only hope is to make such a splash with a big win in Pennsylvania, and big wins in do-overs in Florida and Michigan, that the super delegates will go for her. They would catapult her past Obama's lead in delegates won via the voters - meaning, you know, the democratic way.

In other words, the white bosses would have kept down the black people again. It's not at all clear that the Democratic Party wants to do that - disenfranchise black people, I mean.

It is true that Hillary won three of the four primaries Tuesday, including the one in Texas. It is true that she has"

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