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The 25 delegates hailed from Precinct 110, a suburban, middle- to upper-middle-class neighborhood in northwest Austin, just a stone's throw from Dell Computer and other Austin high-tech companies. In so many ways, the group was a mirror of Austin - a multicultural mix of whites, Asians, African...
But while top guns like McAuliffe cajoled, spun and whipped up the crowds in Waco and Austin, the outcome was really up to the foot soldiers at the grassroots level. At one precinct outside Austin, nine of them spent the entire day in an exhausting duel with 16 Obama representatives...
For the 25 delegates the day began in the wee hours - most arrived at the Travis County Exposition Center, a large facility normally used for livestock shows and concerts, shortly after 6 a.m. The traffic that morning was horrendous, and with an estimated 9,000-plus Austin-area delegates eager...
Inside the expo center, the crowds were raucous, and empty pizza boxes, peanut shells and paper cups littered the floor, so the 25 members of Precinct 110 decided to caucus outside in a cavernous, covered delivery area behind the stage. By 1 p.m. Precinct 110 was embroiled in what would...
At the heart of all this strategy was simple math: with a 16-to-9 split there was no way the Obama supporters could sweep all four state convention slots (two delegates and two alternates). Each side nominated several candidates for the state convention slots, then each precinct delegate had...