Don’t Mess with Texas!

Jake, as an Austin Hillary campaign worker, I can tell you the campaign understands the rules. We had training on the primary/caucus the very first day the campaign opened offices. I think Hillary was just referencing the arcane and bizarre ways of Texas more than referencing an inability to understand it.

Obviously, the Clintons are trying to create an excuse for why they might lose Texas. The problem is that their excuse reflects bad on them. The fact that they’re still willing to use it shows how desperate they are. Texas is a must-win for them.

Why all these Twists and Turns of the Hillary Campaign. It is too much now. Is anyone out there who is tired of them as I do?

Dude, what’s your problem? What she’s talking about is the VOTING process in Texas, which is two-pronged (just like Bevo). Good lord, if you don’ think that her campaign doesn’t understand the delegate distribution, then you’re nuts.

I’d like to know why ABC and the rest of the MSM are not investigating Hillary’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, after a Secret Service agent SWORE UNDER OATH at the time that he saw Williams remove BOXES of personal files from the office of dead Clinton insider Vince Foster, shortly after Foster’s alleged suicide….

To gain an understanding of the Clintons, read Kathleen Willie’s book ‘Target’.

It’s not enough that the candidate needs to be on top of all her policy positions, continue to think well on her feet, distill strategy from her campaign staff, we expect her and her opponent to understand the arcane rules of each state?
That’s why they have campaign staff!

Sounds like Clinton is now trying to paint Texas as another one of those states that ‘don’t really matter’…
because she lost in them.
Desperation.

Jake, you should also note that due to GOP gerrymandering, many of the Texas state senate districts with the most delegates are those districts with a high percentage of African-Americans that appear to be very favorable to Obama.
If Obama wins those districts big and wins the caucuses, he will win the most delegates in Texas, and the nomination race will be over.
You win the race by getting the most delegates, and there won’t be enough delegates left for Hillary to win at that point.

Adam get a life, trying to rehash that same old story, watch “The hunting of the prsident” get informed.

All the hyperbole aside, the language being used by the Clinton campaign is what I find most interesting. Wolfson and Singer were “stumped” by Chalian’s question. Clinton herself has “people trying to understand it”. It seems their strategy of the OH/TX firewall was conceived after the failure to secure the nom. on Super T, and wasn’t thought through considering the open primary in TX, the delegate process tied to previous election turnout and the caucus hybrid. Sure they can win their demos, and perhaps the pop. vote, but possibly a nearly even split of delegates. That’s not much of a firewall. It also makes Clinton’s “meet me in TX” comment seem ill-advised. I think this is perhaps why they threw more resources into WI at the final hours.
Crazy as it may sound, it does seem like they got caught flat-footed on this. That may be a function of the Solis-Doyle and Henry departures. That said, however, these people are not usually “stumped” and loathe to admit if they were, so they may be playing the expectation lowering angle so as to make the “comeback kid” label finally viable.

Tom J is correct, delegates are allocated by Texas Democratic Party rules to the Senatorial Districts on a one-Democrat-one-vote basis.
Kevin, the Republican gerrymandering in Texas (as elsewhere) is designed to pack every Democrat (white, African American, Hispanic, Gay, etc.) into as few districts as possible. This reduces the number of Democrats in the other districts and enables third-rate Republicans to win some elections. In Texas, the lines for the Senatorial Districts were drawn by the Republicans. The Democrats had no input on these lines. So who’s the racist?

Obama is a hustler and a Muslum. I don’t
want either of these types in the White House. For those of you who do I say bon appetite. I Vote no on Nobama.

Obama has not “moved Mountains”.
He has added a few trees to them
so that we can’t see the forest.
For those of you who dismiss the experience issue with BHO I would
assume that your intelligence level would allow you to fly with a pilot who has never stepped into a cockpit before.
I think the man is arrogant enough to believe that we are stupid enough to put him in office.

for someone ready on day one how come her campaign seems to be so incompetent when they knew they have been running for president in 2008 as soon as Kerry lost.
If your ready on day one you don’t blow 100mm+ campaign funds by the end of the Iowa Caucuses
are you kidding?
Obama has consistently beat her when organization matters and that’s pretty weak when you had the establishment on your side.
regardless of which candidate you supported on either the Republican or Democratic side.
Obama has run the best campaign hands down
and while his speeches has been about big themes and changes to the political process “Change”
his campaign has used 21st century technology to Campaign old school ground
game

“I’ve got people trying to understand it as we speak. Grown men are crying as we speak. I had no idea it was so bizarre.”
How does this level of preparedness tally with her mantra of ‘ready on day one’? I’m sure you could wake Obama up in the middle of the night and he could tell you how the Texas primaries work without blinking.