Texas Primary Results/Updates

[Holt's Cat]

CNN currently has

Obama 60%
Clinton 39%

...with <1% precincts reporting.

[Holt's Cat]

Nothing yet on the GOP. McCain could lock it up with Texas if he gets a large enough margin.

[Holt's Cat]

McCain 56%
Huckabee 34%
Paul 9%

[Warlord23]

Too early to comment, but hope this holds up throughout TX

[some_user86]

The Texas map (county by county results by CNN):

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/pri...XDEMMAPprimary

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Right now it's playing to Obama's strongholds, so it should get much closer by the end of the night.

[Nbadan]

yipes...

[Holt's Cat]

Clinton ahead in Bexar Co. 54%-45%

[Nbadan]

Loving county on the hook only has about 25 demos...

[Holt's Cat]

Obama up on Clinton 56%-43% with close to 900k votes in.

[some_user86]

Excuse my political naivete, but I never paid much attention to the primaries and "% precinct reporting" numbers before. I had always just waited for the 'CNN experts' to declare the results.

Having said that, what the does "1% precinct reporting" mean when ~1 million votes have already come in. Texas has, what, maybe 20 million people max. What the does that mean then?

I mean I can analyze results from a political science perspective, but I am not a political statistician. So forgive me for a n00b question.

[Nbadan]

You gotta remember that there are precincts in Texas with not a lot of people, so even though you see only 1% reporting, those precincts that have reported are from dense population centers like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin....

[some_user86]

You gotta remember that there are precincts in Texas with not a lot of people, so even though you see only 1% reporting, those precincts that have reported are from dense population centers like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin....

Then what are the average number of voters in Texas Democratic primaries (given that this year has had a huge number of increase in primary voters)?

[Holt's Cat]

McCain wins Texas and wins GOP nomination per CNN.

[some_user86]

Nevermind, 13 million registered voters according to wikipedia.

[some_user86]

McCain wins Texas and wins GOP nomination per CNN.

Heh, big surprise.

[some_user86]

54-45 Obama leading Hillary with 2% reporting according to CNN. Already getting close.

[Nbadan]

You gotta remember that the early numbers include the early voting too...so the numbers are big....

[some_user86]

Yeah, this is why I usually go to sleep on election night and just shift through the results the next day. Like I said, I can analyze the results, I just can't stand the minute-by-minute reporting of the results.

I guess I am gonna go switch over the game to stop looking at this.

[some_user86]

I think Texas might hold for Obama. But damn, what a beating in Ohio.

[Holt's Cat]

I think Texas might hold for Obama. But damn, what a beating in Ohio.

Are Cleveland and Cincinnati reporting yet?

[Nbadan]

both are reporting only early voting numbers

[Nbadan]

Obama's lead is down to 20K in Texas 16% reporting

[possessed]

Texas is slipping away.

[some_user86]

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[Nbadan]

Like I said, he doesn't have to win Texas, he just has to keep it close....he has the delegates to win already just by winning the states he already leads in....