TX Dem Party stops running public tally caucus results--no more #'s til March 29th

[rainbow4321]

Oh, sure..it's finally announced Obama really won and NOW the public tally stops. We want numbers, dammit.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiLpWMaIEe0T0buAOcXm-Eb7DIQQD8VBG4M80

Curious whether Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton won Texas' Democratic caucuses March 4? The official results won't be available until March 29. Until then, the last reported results — from 41 percent of the precinct caucuses — show Obama ahead with 56 percent to Clinton's 44 percent.

Obama has won at least 31 delegates from the caucuses and Clinton has won at least 27, according to The Associated Press count. The remaining nine delegates will be awarded after the official results are announced at the end of the month.


The state Democratic Party gave up Monday on its effort to produce a running public tally of the count. The state party had set up a reporting system, outside the official count, that relied on 8,247 precinct chairmen to voluntarily call their results to 254 county chairmen who would relay them to state party headquarters.

But an estimated 1 million Democrats — far more than ever before — showed up for the caucuses, which were held right after voting ended in the first part of the Democratic contest: a standard primary administered by state government.

[DJ13]

1. I saw CNN called the TX caucus for Obama earlier tonight