Obama Camp: Victory in Texas
March 29th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
This in from the Obama Campaign. It might be a bit premature. When we get something from the Clinton Campaign, we’ll post that as well.
Meanwhile, once again the national media is shaking its head at the bedlam produced by Texas Democrats…
Caucuses Guarantee Obama Win In Texas
AUSTIN - With more than 56% of the results tallied from today’s 284 Democratic district conventions across Texas, Senator Barack Obama currently is projected to earn a 38-29 pledged delegate win in the Texas caucuses, exactly as projected on the day after the March 4th precinct caucuses. The nine delegate margin in the caucuses means Obama will gain a net margin of five pledged delegates from Texas because Senator Clinton narrowly won the Texas primary by only four delegates, 65-61.
“Despite the Clinton campaign’s widespread attempts to prevent many Texans from participating in their district convention, the voters of Texas confirmed Senator Obama’s important delegate win in the Lone Star State,” said Obama spokesman Josh Earnest. “Today’s record-shattering turnout sends a clear message that the American people are ready for change in Washington and new leadership in the White House that will stand up for working families.”
The Obama campaign will release a more detailed tally of the results tomorrow.
March 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am
“Despite the Clinton campaign’s widespread attempts to prevent many Texans from participating in their district convention. . . ”
The Obama Campaign’s accusation of attempted disenfranchisement of voters by the Clinton Campaign should have either been qualified with real evidence of such incidents or not stated at all. For me, that is a serious allegation that, if unsupported, really undermines Obama’s message of unity and rejection of negativity in his campaign.
As a delegate in one of Houston’s senatorial districts, what most impressed me about yesterday’s caucus was the excitement and pro-active interest democrats of all flavors have in forging ahead to “turn the state blue”.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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April 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Barack Obama’s campaign is “The Opening Shot” of the coming ‘war between the generations’, and/or the last echo of those whose worldviews were shaped by, or prior to, VietNam/the ’60’s.
Those born in the 1960’s now find themselves sandwiched in between people who grew up having to deal with the Draft and those who were raised on cable tv, vcr’s, computers/internet, and cell phones. The demarcations also include different views and experiences on/with the role of Government in society, it’s methods, and most importantly, it’s priorities. The ‘in-between’ers’ will have to decide whether the U.S. government continues to try to ‘police/democratize the world’ as it has for the past six decades via economic coercion and military force, or to focus inward to reform itself into a fully-functioning example for others to admire and emulate.
The ‘in-between’ers’ with few or no personal memories of VietNam/the ’60’s impact upon U.S. society, including the Democratic Party nominee, will have to choose. Between a man who personally remembers the news of Pearl Harbor, whose views of the proper role of the United States on the world stage were shaped by WWII, the Cold War, his own experiences in VietNam, and the ensuing fallout and rebound from it.
Whereas the younger supporters of Obama have few or no personal memories of Ronald Reagan. Their worldviews are shaped by the ubiquitous interactive technologies they were raised with, and the post-’60’s social and political trends accelerated by those new communication tools. Indeed if an 18 y/o voter this November was born 3 preceding generations of 18 year old parents, John McCain would be but 1 year younger than their great-grandparents.
I expect that a McCain/Obama contest will be the largest generational/age/policy/worldview gap in U.S. history, both literally and figuratively. And it will be but the harbinger of very substantial and often ugly and bitter policy fights over government spending to come over the next decade.
To what extent those born in the 1960’s commit themselves to making sacrifices for the future well-being of their children will be the determining factor in the ‘generations war’ to come. They may act decisively in 2008 or they may not. Only time will tell. But at least they will have a choice.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:45 am
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