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14 Feb 2008 01:06 pm
The Clintons' Texas Challenge
The way the system is set up does not play to their alleged advantages among Hispanic voters:
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is looking to
Latino voters in Texas to help her wrest the nomination from Barack
Obama, but Texas' complicated delegate apportioning system doesn't
necessarily favor Hispanic regions of the state.
Of the state's 228 Democratic presidential delegates, 126 will be
awarded based on voting in the March 4 primary. But most of the
remaining 102 are allocated in a caucus system leading up to the state
convention in June, making Texas the only state with a twin
primary-caucus system.
Those delegates are allotted by a candidate's performance in each of
the state's 31 state senate districts. Each district gets delegates
based on Democratic turnout in past elections.
So some urban districts in Houston, Dallas and Austin with higher
Democratic turnout in the 2004 and 2006 general elections could give
their winning candidate more delegates than some predominantly Hispanic
districts in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso.
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