CNN Confirms TMRO's Report Of Obama Texas Win

From The Political Machine ~ The Texas Secretary of State will release the official results of the Democratic primary on March 29th.

But if initial estimates hold, Barack Obama will beat Hillary Clinton in the race for delegates.

CNN confirms what others, including The McCarville Report Online (March 6, March 8), have been reporting for days: (CNN) — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has won the Texas Democratic caucuses and will get more delegates out of the state than his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won the state's primary, according to CNN estimates.

While Clinton won the state's popular vote, Obama racked up more caucus support, so that, now that the dust is settling, the Lone Star state's delegate total reads: Obama: 61 delegates from the popular vote + 38 delegates from caucuses = 99 delegates. Clinton: 65 delegates from the popular vote + 29 delegates from Caucuses = 94 delegates.

So news people can now stop saying "two big wins in Ohio and Texas."

Big win in Ohio, sure, but not Texas. Yes, Clinton could still pull it out, but that seems increasingly unlikely. A further analysis of the delegate race over at DailyKos reveals that Clinton's supposedly big week has actually resulted in a net loss of 15 delegates to the front-runner. That's right, Obama continued to widen his delegate lead. Add to that another 6 delegate cushion after Mississippi, as well as another 99,000-vote-advantage to buttress Obama's overall lead in the popular vote, and one gets the feeling that Obama's momentum didn't really subside as much as was reported.

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