Some of the people I'm related to live in Texas, which you may have heard is also holding a primary today. Like Vermont (heck, like anywhere), Texas is not a place you can paint with a broad political brush. Yes, it is the home of George W. Bush, they drive big trucks across vast acres, they wear cowboy boots and some of them are actual cowboys.
But such a big place is also filled lots of kinds of people. Just for an example, San Antonio is only an hour from Austin and the two cities are hugely different - San Antonio tends toward laid-back and conservative, Austin hip and mostly liberal.
They don't wait until the last day to do their voting there (you don't have to here either, but it sounds more common to vote early there), and one person I'm related to said the line for voting in the Democratic primary in Austin last Friday was down the block and around the bend. But there was a line for the Republican primary too. Obama and Clinton, as the polls indicate, seem to be splitting the D's votes.
Of course, Texas has to do things different, which brings us to the Texas Two-Step of voting. They can vote early and often. Along with the primary, they have caucuses tonight, where some more delegates are decided. And they call Vermont weird.
Enough about Texas, though. What are your predictions for tonight's results here in sleet-filled Vermont? By what percent? Does it get decided for Obama tonight? If Clinton regains momentum, will there be any stopping her?
- Terri Hallenbeck
