With all the back-and-forth over the delegates gained by Obama and Clinton in yesterday’s Texas primary, this word is just in from state Democratic officials.
Obama could pick up a net gain of three delegates, after all the dust settles.
Here’s how Dem officials say that’s possible: Clinton won the popular vote, and could pick up as many as four delegates from that. Obama appears to be winning the caucus voting on delegates, and could pick up as many as seven delegates there.
If that holds true, Obama would end up with three more Texas delegates than Clinton. But we’re staying tuned for the final results, whenever they come out.
David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager sent a broadcast email to the supporters/volunteers stating that:
"Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday's elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183.
That's a net gain of 4 delegates out of more than 370 delegates available from all the states that voted.
For comparison, that's less than half our net gain of 9 delegates from the District of Columbia alone. It's also less than our net gain of 8 from Nebraska, or 12 from Washington State. And it's considerably less than our net gain of 33 delegates from Georgia."
The caption actually should read:Hillary's sign: "Texas 2-Step, All Hat and no delegate gain"
Newspaper guy: "More bad news your math is not adding up either, the superdelegate count is being recalled"
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