Texas Circus - Field Visit report

calmom
Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:31:09 +0000

The primary vote was a virtual tie. Clinton’s “majority” of 2.5 million voters was a margin of less than 100,000 voters. In fact, one problem is that with those numbers, there is no “winner” - the popular delegates would be evenly split.

To win in November, the party’s candidate will have to be able to mobilize many voters to get out en masse and vote – and Obama clearly has shown he has ability to deliver. Clinton’s weakness in the caucuses stems from the fact that she lacks strong grassroots support and/or organization – its one thing to run a television ad smearing the opposing candidate, its another to marshal one’s own forces and get them out to the polls on election day.

I don’t know what the thinking is behind the 2-vote caucus system in Texas, but the bottom line is that the decision is being made by voters who are committed enough to take the extra time involved. With people like Rush Limbaugh urging right-wingers to vote for Hillary on the logic that she will be easier to beat, maybe it makes sense for an extra layer of security to be added to prevent what is essentially sabotage of the voting process by the right wing.