Texas Papers Endorse Obama – 5 majors

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POLITEX

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Texas papers back Obama and (mostly) McCain

Presidential endorsements are out from the five biggest Texas newspapers. Barack Obama had a clean sweep on the Democratic side. It was also a good day for John McCain. (Note: The Morning News announced their endorsements back in December, well before Mike Huckabee's campaign stalled. Politicos will likely be debating whether the paper's op/ed board would have chosen differently had they waited until this week)

Star-Telegram: Obama & McCain

The rest:

Austin: Obama & McCain

Dallas: Obama & Huckabee

Houston: Obama & McCain

San Antonio: Obama & McCain

[Moh96]

1. thank you for that

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3. Clean sweep. We'll see how they count the votes.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Obama should get a large bunch of delegates from TX

even if he marginally loses to HRC

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4. Is TX proportional?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. Texas has a weird system

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/14/134035/099

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16. Thanks. That is diffdrent, interesting too. n/t

[Scurrilous]

5. Kick

:kick:

[goodhue]

6. excellent

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. all RW rag papers....why doesn't that send up any red flags? don't ya'll get it?

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14. Endorsements

These papers all endorsed Bush for president in 2004. There were only two papers who endorsed Kerry - the Waco Tribune and the Crawford Lone Star Iconoclast. I don't know about RW rags. The Dallas paper ran the story about Edmonds, a violation of the gag order to not discuss that story (just recently), and the Ft Worth paper ran the story about the "missing nukes" - a scathing critique by a former USAF officer saying there were all sorts of things wrong with that event.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have much faith in any papers. Wasn't it the NYT that sat on the Oct 2004 story of presidential ordered wire tapping well into 2005, a story that would have won Kerry the election (based on the initial reaction to that). And the Washington Post is laughingly and accurately called the Penta Post for their stenographic efforts in behalf of the administration.

They're all right wing to varying degrees (with some exceptions like the McClatchy papers).

The post just reports what's happening there.

[Cha]

23. The NYT is the worst of all..

but, all these endorsements might generate some excitement that otherwise might not be noted.

[H2O Man]

8. Nominated.

Thank you.

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19. It's what's happening;)

Virginia's primary had 950,000 voters this year. It had 450,000 in 2004, which was a hot primary.

Who were the extras? Well, lets start with all the people in this fine state who are fed up with a timid Democratic Party and add the large urban votes in Richmond and Tidewater, where many of the 200,000 disenfranchised ex felons live, largely black and 90% non violent crimes, but denied the vote. Their family and friends know that two Democratic governors could have, by fiat, restored voting rights to these individuals who have done their time and paid their debt.

For these folks, Obama's candidacy was a vehicle of pay back to the tepid faction of the party

- look what you could have if you really represented us, spoke for us, cared!

[grantcart]

9. kick

[Carolina]

10. K&R!

[Me.]

11. Hey

Hiddey ho,

K & R

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12. I'm impressed by the momentum behind this effort.

I think even the powers that be have to be impressed with Obama's performance since, by my understanding, he's the guy behind himself;)

:hi:

[AtomicKitten]

15. Spectacular!

Thanks for posting this, Mike! It appears the big mo remains with Barack.

K&R

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18. 50% - 48% Clinton - Obama in Texas but that's a rolling average.

Lots of heads exploding after the big three. PA is the wild card. Watch how he does in the middle of the state. That will tell a lot. Maybe some corks popping in your neighborhood;)

[TexasObserver]

17. It's happening all over Texas. Hillary is not liked here.

She may win the valley. She may win a large number of sparsely populated, largely white counties in west, north, and east Texas, but she'll lose the big cities and the big senatorial districts.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. The Rove plan here...get the knuckle draggers to crosover vote in the OPEN Primary for......

the weakest candidate.....and they will NOT be there for Obama in November.....GET IT YET?!?

[TexasObserver]

21. Nonsense. Utter nonsense.

Save it for someone who doesn't know and understand Texas Politics better than you ever will. I do.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. keep telling yourself that....I will remember you and hit you back with an "I told ya so"

[TexasObserver]

25. No, you won't, because you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.

But you already know that.

[David Zephyr]

22. Kick! Real News.

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