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...pocket or that rubber band strapped around his left wrist. As it stands, he is still too busy attempting to convince his party and its conservative base that he is not to be feared. Witness his latest endorsement road show: Mitt Romney in Boston, George H.W. Bush in Houston and a bunch of big-name Republican Representatives in Washington. These are the moves of a man still speaking to his party's base...
...half of the Lone Star Democratic electorate - and a majority of the state party's power brokers. Democrats control 13 of Texas' 32 congressional districts, and nine of those seats are occupied by minority lawmakers. Obama can count on strong support from African Americans in cities like Dallas and Houston, and that support will be amplified by the baroque rules under which Texas Democrats award delegates. To offset his advantage, Clinton must do extremely well with the Latino voters who dominate large parts of South Texas from El Paso to Brownsville...
...state's 15 most populous counties, some 65,000-plus voters went to grocery stores and bank lobbies, rec centers and libraries to vote. Some images are startling: 1,000 Prairie View A&M students, a traditionally African-American college in a rural area west of Houston, marched seven miles to the nearest early voting station. And in a state requiring no party registration to cast a ballot, two out of three early voters so far have asked for a Democratic ballot. That is where the battle is being fought: between a must-win Hillary Clinton and a surging Barack...
...after Wisconsin, where he plans on spending a few days and where polls show he is much is closer to catching Clinton than he is in Ohio. Texas Democrats have for a generation been the minority party in Texas: Obama begins with strong base among African-American voters in Houston and Dallas; Clinton enjoys a head start among the state's Hispanic population, which numbers close to 7 million. Obama noted in Houston on Tuesday night that early voting has already begun in the state and he urged a crowd of more than 15,000 to start voting immediately...
...awarded proportionally along congressional district lines, but instead are done based on state senate districts, with areas that had higher turnout in recent presidential and gubernatorial elections getting bonus delegates. That could mean that Obama could snag more delegates than expected by doing well in places like inner-city Houston and liberal Austin, while Clinton's supposed advantage with Latinos in South Texas might not provide her with as big as a windfall as she might hope...