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Mar 5, 2008 5:19 pm US/Central
Texas Democrats Remain Split Between Candidates
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton debate at the University of Texas Feb. 21, 2008 in Austin, Texas.
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In Tuesday's elections, voters in North Texas did not always agree with the state majority. Republicans in Texas generally agreed on Sen. John McCain, but the numbers show that Democrats in Texas were divided between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton did not watch the election returns from Texas, opting instead to spend the night in Ohio. The New York Senator is claiming victory in three of the four states: Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas. But she did not have support from every Texas Democrat.
According to the election results, the majority of voters in Dallas County, Tarrant County, Collin County and Denton County voted for Illinois Senator Barack Obama. His widest margin of victory in North Texas came in Dallas County, where Democrats preferred him over Clinton 61 percent to 38 percent.
Sen. Obama spent the night in San Antonio, located in Bexar County. Clinton won that county. Obama flew back to Chicago on Wednesday. He said, "This notion that, somehow, all the states I win are not bellwether states, but the states that Sen. Clinton wins, those are the critical ones, is a strange way of keeping score."
Clinton stated, "We have to decide who is on the top ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me."
Based on the popular vote, Clinton has 65 Texas delegates, compared to 61 for Obama. These numbers do not include caucus delegates. Election officials are still counting Tuesday night's votes.
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