Final Texas Delegate Count

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The final results won’t be known until June, but it looks like Barack Obama will come out of Texas with more delegates: 98-95. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the primary and took 65 delegates out of that contest to Obama’s 61. Obama made up the difference in the caucus. (As most everyone knows by now, Texas had both a primary and a caucus.)

Point is, I was right.