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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:53 PM
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Apparently, HRC wants us to wait three days for TX caucus results?
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Are they hoping to delay the inevitable announcement that she LOST?? So she can continue her lies of winning Texas for 3 more (24 hour) news cycles?


http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/504829.html


"I think they're afraid of what the caucus results might be," said Obama campaign strategist Steve Hildebrand. "This is the game they play on the eve of every election. ... They like to suggest that the process is unfair to her."
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State Rep. Jim Dunnam, D-Waco, leader of the Democrats in the state House of Representatives, accused the Clinton campaign of trying to "stoke fears or promote cynicism" by raising questions about a process that has been a feature of the presidential nomination process in Texas for decades.

The law requires the caucus results to be reported within three days, but the intense interest in the results prompted the Texas Democratic Party to invest $60,000 in a voluntary reporting system so that the media and public would have an idea about how the caucus tallies were breaking.

Obama officials see no problem with it. But Mauro said the system would produce "flimsy, half-baked results." Still, Mauro said there were no plans to challenge the legality of the voluntary reporting system.

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