There's Got to Be a Morning After: Post-Primary Recap

We don't know about you, but we spent over two hours at our caucus last night, glad that no one came to blows. Our precinct turned out 2/3 for Obama and 1/3 for Clinton, and while it is still early yet, Obama seems to be leading by 2/3 to Hillary's 1/3 in the Travis County precinct convention results (in Travis County, Obama got 65% of the primary vote). So even though it seems that Hillary won the Texas primary (it's interesting that Obama led in statewide early voting), Obama may beat her in delegate numbers. Last night, Clinton won Rhode Island and Ohio, while Vermont went to Obama.

In the GOP race, McCain is now the GOP candidate as Huckabee gives up the ghost. In Travis County, Ron Paul won 17% of the vote (he got 5% of the vote statewide) - still clearly beat by McCain.

As far as state results, Democrat Rick Noriega will go up against Cornyn in November for the US Senate race. Noriega is a former State Rep. from Houston who served in Afghanistan through the National Guard.

In the Democratic District 10 US Rep. race, dearly fought between Larry Joe Doherty and Dan Grant, Doherty collected 58% of the vote to beat out Grant. The fight between incumbent Dawnna Dukes and Brian Thompson for District 46 State Rep. was not as close as hoped; the "Craddick D" beat the newbie with 65% of the vote. Republican Pamela Waggoner will face off against Rep. Donna Howard in November in the District 48 State Rep. Race; Waggoner won about 62% of the vote in her primary race.

There will be a run-off for Travis County DA between Mindy Montford and Rosemary Lehmberg. In the race for Travis County Tax Assessor-Collector, incumbent Nelda Wells Spears won over 74% of the vote, beating Maxey.

And Andy Brown is now Travis County Democratic Party Chair after winning over 55% of the vote.

[Travis County Primary Election Results]
[Secretary of State: 2008 Democratic Party Election Returns]
[NY Times: Election Guide 2008: Texas Primary/Caucus Results]
[NPR Election 2008: Texas Primary/Caucus Votes]

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By Elizabeth S. in News on March 5, 2008 11:30 AM 0 Comments

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seth

At Precinct 136, we were told it was against election law to bring beer to the caucus. Can someone verify this?

Seth

Ben Combee

The precinct 259 caucus up in north Austin will still active at 11PM (too many resolutions). Sign in took a long time, with 333 people at the event. Most were gone by 9:30PM, but I stuck around to become a delegate to the county convention. We went 207 for Obama, 126 for Clinton, so Obama got 27 Travis county delegates and Hillary got 17 (she won the rounding).

name

precinct 135. i am exhausted.

cram

The downtown caucus was about as civil as you can get and was over in ~1 hour including the time to sign in, tally votes, and elect our 5 delegates. Obama won the votes ~2:1, but because of how the rounding worked out, the delegates were divided 3:2.