Hillary will be defeated in Texas on Saturday

[Life Long Dem]

Hillary will be defeated in Texas on Saturday
by Texasblue
Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 09:38:42 PM PDT

If you live in Texas and you voted for Obama and you caucused for Obama and you were elected as a delegate to the county convention, you know that this Saturday looms large. It looms large because Saturday is when the county conventions throughout Texas convene. It is Saturday when the outcome of the statewide caucuses will be ratified by the precinct delegates. It is Saturday when Hillary Clinton will discover, officially, that she was defeated by Barack Obama in the Lone Star state. Hillary may not like our quirky "Texas three-step" process...primary-caucus-county convention. But it is time-honored tradition here and the outcome is immutable.

After Saturday, Texas will be in the Obama column. He will have won the most pledged delegates...in a very BIG state.

Tonight, in precinct 335 in a tiny rural community 40 miles outside of Austin, 15-20 Obama delegates met to plan strategy for Saturday's convention. Taking nothing to chance, we organized a meeting held a private home. Most of us were relative strangers to each other. By the end of the evening, we were friends with a common mission, fired up once again and ready to go.

As the meeting got started, we went around the room and gave everyone the floor with some time to share why they support Obama, what their political background was and what this election means to them. Everyone in the room spoke extemporaneously and had some poignant, heartfelt story to share. This gathering was a metaphor for the Obama campaign itself...spontaneous, cerebral, passionate, patriotic. Everyone found a way to describe how Barack Obama touched them as no political figure in recent memory.

Almost all of the people in this room were middle aged white men and women. Most had been democrats all their lives but had gone into hiding in recent years. One or two delegates admitted sheepishly to voting in the past for Republicans. The one constant refrain spoken tonight was that we are at a "tipping point" and that this was our nation's "last chance" to get it right.

Most people have better things to do with their Saturdays than to spend them in a dinky ass county convention in podunk Texas. But nothing, nothing could be more important to this group of committed citizens. We will do our duty to elect Barack Obama no matter what it takes. We intend to do our part to change the course of history. The Obama delegates will show up Saturday en masse. Our voices will be heard. America will hear them and Texas will officially be Obama country.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/27/03842/2974/1019/485117

[hogwyld]

1. Thanks for the update!

So if Obama comes out of the county conventions with a delegate lead, do you think the M$M will change their map colors?

[Life Long Dem]

27. Or will it even count unless Hillary wins?

[Blarch]

2. Brace for the spin.

[Justitia]

3. I'll be there, representing Obama from SD-7! -eom

[WolverineDG]

4. South Texas checking in

Hoping all goes smoothly, but I've heard the national media will be parked on our doorstep in case all hell breaks loose. ;)

dg

[40ozDonkey]

5. Get ready to be declared non-important.

We'll still love you in the morning, tho. :D

[Life Long Dem]

26. Yeah, and then they'll turn around and scream "disenfranchment "of MI and FL,

Kick.

[rainbow4321]

42. If being labeled "non-important"

will get RID of her and her whining/lawsuit threats/raining on the BEST Dem turnout in recent TX history....PLEASE, please, please label away!!!! I'll even purchase the label maker for her!!

[Vinca]

6. The big question is, will the MSM report it? nt

[WolverineDG]

13. WaPo is covering my county's convention

thanks to all the shenanigans that went on at the precinct level. }(

dg

[thevoiceofreason]

7. Obama in SD-15 here - fired up and ready to go.

[Coexist]

8. I've been calling for y'all from Florida

to make sure you all know where to go and when to be there!

[WolverineDG]

14. You haven't called me!

:cry: :sniff:

;)

Thanks for helping out!! :)

dg

[Coexist]

16. I did Dallas 23 - that precinct is HUGE!

[crispini]

21. That's a senatorial district ... and yes, it's huge!

Thanks for your support! :patriot:

[Eurobabe]

9. Yeargh!!

GOBAMA!

[davidpdx]

10. I'll be waiting to hear what happens

Go get'em Obama delegates.

[flpoljunkie]

11. Thanks for posting! A compelling read!

[Alter Ego]

12. Texas..."three step"?

I swear, Texas DUers, your process is just one big mindfuck for me.

[Life Long Dem]

22. Yeah, I think the only one we haven't seen dance has been Hillary.

Geez we even saw Chris Matthews...with Ellen Dengenerous. She had some good footage of it.

[cooolandrew]

15. Sounds very reassuring to me. =) WTG TEXAS!

[speedoo]

17. K&R. nt

[Lochloosa]

18. Anyone in SD 24?

[Gothmog]

19. SD 18 is ready to go

I was impressed with the Obama delegate training program. It was well run and had standing room only at the session that I attended

[kid a]

20. This needs A LOT of media attention - digg it, buzz it, huff it, myspace it, facebook it, buz it UP!

[blogslut]

23. kick

:hi:

[MagickMuffin]

24. SD 12, checking in

:kick:

FIRED UP AND READY TO GO

:kick:

[FrenchieCat]

25. Let's get it done! Yes we can!

:thumbsup:

[StevieM]

28. Nope, Hilary won Texas (as well as Nevada). The delegates are a separate matter from the notion of

"wins" in a state. Wins are about momentum and support from people in a given state. The Latinos districts in Texas may have been penalized in delegates for having a lower turnout in 2004, but you can't take away the importance of their people. Bill Clinton lost Connecticut to Jerry Brown in 92, while picking up delgates, and it was touted by the media as a humiliating loss--it led off the national news. An Obama claim to victory is decietful and dishonest.

Steve

[AGirl]

30. I really agree, the fact is more people in Texas support voted for HIllary than Obama

You can't say that's meaningless just because of some made up delegate rules. The idea of one person = one vote means something completely above all else.

[high density]

33. Whatever momentum came from TX is long gone no matter what happens

But you are being the dishonest one by blurring the definition of victory. Delegates are what count in this race even if your selected candidate is behind when using the metric that matters.

[AGirl]

34. Popular vote is what count in a democracy. One person = one vote.

Primary is opened to all, allows more people to express their natural right of self determination, this is what democracy is about. In a democracy, Hillary won the vote in Texas, lost the delegate count because of artifically designed rules.

[tammywammy]

36. "artifically designed rules"

Rules that have been in place for at least 20 years. Hillary would have done better if she had prepared for Texas beforehand.

[OhioBlue]

43. kinda like super delegates? n/t

[wileedog]

44. We are representative democracy - actually a republic

Popular vote as defined by the founding fathers is largely meaningless. They never envisioned or wanted mob rules.

[AGirl]

46. no mob rules..okay, so superdelegates should make their own independent decision.

popular vote = largely meaningless, nice to know you think like that.

[thevoiceofreason]

40. Get a grip Steve.

Texas is a marathon (just like there is a Marathon, Texas). You have to do it all. That's the HRC problem, IMHO. She has no staying power. She's ready on day 1, then ignores you on day 2.

[AGirl]

29. Hillary may not like our quirky

cacucus is not democratic, no democratic person should like this "process".

[tammywammy]

31. I'm ready for tomorrow, SD 10 here

I have my Obama shirt ready. :)

[adoraz]

32. thanks for that, does anybody know

what time the results will be announced?

[thevoiceofreason]

39. Call them in to barack's HQ as you learn them.

The folks running the individual counties/senate districts will be doing the same to the state.

[rainbow4321]

45. Keep in mind that there is one TX county not having their convention til Sunday afternoon

Collin County (just north of Dallas). They got a waiver from the state cuz there was no local facility big enough on Saturday to accomodate the expected 3,000 people that would also be in line with federal handicap access laws. Surprised HRC has not challenged the federal handicap laws over this yet!


So HRC gets another double kick in the ass with yet another TX 2 step..she gets 2 days worth of losing TX county conventions (Obama won in Collin County's precinct caucus' that Tuesday night so don't worry about Collin County taking away from his # of delegate totals you may hear Saturday night).


And I apologize in advance to people tired of all my "don't forget Collin County is on Sunday" posts...just get this feeling like my county is showing up late for the dance--or after the dance--not because of DUers responses but because the MSM is gonna only report by what #'s they get their hands on Saturday night and act like it's all a done deal before my county's delegates even get into their convention doors on Sunday!

[knixphan]

35. Primaries = Delegate game.

Barack's team knew this, and the scoreboard is rewarding him.

[jenmito]

37. Wanna bet that suddenly Hillary will start pointing out that NO Dem. could win TX in the GE?

Moving the goalpost once again...

[Cha]

38. Waaaaaaaaaaa...I'm

all shook up! :cry: That was poignant and just emotionally tearing at my heart strings. :loveya: Texas!

[Ichingcarpenter]

41. I just talked to my brother that worked with ANN RICHARDS

When she was a County Commissioner and he was the County Judge.

HE SAID IT IS OVER, NOT TO WORRY, HILLARY HAS LOST.