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...Austin-area delegates eager to line up for their convention credentials, party officials had to extend the sign-in time until almost noon. Worried they would not make the deadline, many delegates decided not to wait in a two-mile traffic jam and simply parked their cars along the side of the road and walked...
...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 one vote. The two top winners would serve as the delegates, with the third- and fourth-place winners named as alternates if either of the delegates could not attend the June state convention. The Clintonites' goal was to nail down one of the two main delegates...
...ardent Hillary supporter. "While they were doing high fives because they had more people, we stayed cool. Plan one was for everyone to vote for the same person." That would sacrifice any chance at getting one of the alternates, but would ensure a delegate for Hillary. On the Obama side, Jay Carter, 32, a former TV reporter turned real estate company owner, said the hope was that the Clinton ranks would split. The Obama team planned to divide their votes - women voting for a women delegate, men voting for a man, If the Clintonites fractured, they reasoned, Obama might have...
...Hillary group's plan worked out, however. The Clinton team held fast, and even though the Obamaphiles had almost two-thirds of the delegation, each side got one delegate, with Obama winning the two alternates. "The math is the math," said Tanya Quinn, 48, a self-employed graphic artist, the winning Clinton delegate and precinct team leader. "I was given my task and we did it. Hillary is all about solutions, and we had the solution...
...lecturer in life sciences at the University of the West Indies. Petrochemical plants and the port itself are replacing the mangroves along the west coast, Agard notes, and from the north the city is expanding in the direction of the swamp. The highway on the swamp's eastern side chokes off the fresh water supply, changing the ecosystem of the swamp, which is also bounded by a sewage treatment plant and a garbage dump. That there are still plenty of birds in Caroni is "an illusion," Agard warns. "The local colony is not doing so well," he says, and when...