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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...
Across Texas, over 100,000 Democrats gathered Saturday at county conventions - the second tier of the complicated three-step caucus process to select 67 delegates to the national convention - joining the 126 delegates chosen in the primary voting that same day. With her 51% win of the popular vote, Hillary...
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...
Others worry about America's standing abroad. Though the U.S. abides by most treaty obligations, its reputation has been seriously damaged after eight years of high profile snubs by the Bush Administration - starting with the abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, and peaking with Bush's war on terror...