[lbo-talk] Remarkably small delegate gain for Clinton

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 6 04:53:03 PST 2008


On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:57 AM, shag wrote:


> I vaguely recall hearing (not reading! :) that this was b/c of the
> way TX
> doles out delegates, with cities where Teflobama is strong having more
> delegates than suburban/rural/exurban areas. Does anyone know of an
> article
> on this?

Heavily Democratic areas, like Austin, get more delegates than others. And since places like Austin are hotbeds of Obama-ism, he gets extra delegates. I learned this from Michael Barone on, of course, Fox News.

Doug



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