Texas caucus conventions get going with crowds, some confusion

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Source: Dallas Morning News


Texas Democrats packed into county conventions Saturday as supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fought again to win delegates in a complex and long-running presidential caucus system.

Results tallied by The Associated Press showed that Obama had 1,479 delegates selected to go on to the state convention, or 57 percent, compared with Clinton's 1,129 delegates, or 43 percent. That's out of about 7,300 delegates expected to be selected at senate district meetings across the state.

Because of the huge Democratic turnout in Texas' primary and caucuses on March 4, just registering delegates took hours at some conventions. At large conventions in Houston, Dallas and Austin, which lasted into the night, arguments erupted and confusion set in as complaints were lodged about the legitimacy of some delegates.

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Two Obama supporters at that Harris County convention, 54-year-old Adib Saafir and 29-year-old Katrina Moore, said they each received text messages before the convention telling them to wrongly go to a caucus at a school in Fort Bend County. They said the note was signed "Ken the planner." By the time they found the right convention in Houston, it was too late to register.

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