Texas hold 'em

Clinton won 65 delegates to Obama's 61 in the Texas primary.  But it looks as though the Clinton campaign will wind up with a delegate loss once all the returns are in from the post-primary Texas caucuses. 

Although many of us precinct chairs called in our results at the end of our "conventions" on Tuesday night, not everyone has.  And even if they had, the results aren't final until early June.  Got that?  Once all the delegates from the results of the caucuses are validated by the Democratic state convention during the first week of June, it looks as though Clinton may well wind up with something like 95 delegates to Obama's 98. 

A summary from the Dallas Morning News:

Texas Democrats allocate their convention delegates in two ways:

126 are determined by the popular vote in Tuesday's primary in state  Senate districts. Hillary Rodham Clinton won 65 delegates, Barack Obama got 61.   

67 are determined later by conventions.

On Tuesday: The late-night precinct conventions determined representatives to go to county conventions. 

March 29: At the county conventions, delegates will be elected for state convention.

June 5-7: At the Democratic state convention, delegates will be elected for the national convention. Those are the delegates who will cast ballots for Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Obama at the national gathering in Denver.

The big question:  How could the results of the caucuses be at such variance with the results of the primaries?

The response (from polls watchers and caucus volunteers in Texas):  The Limbaugh effect?  Many votes for Hillary appear to have come from Limbaugh-driven "spoilers" in the open primary.  At the caucuses, however, the turn-out was as much as ten times normal and with more dramatic margins for Obama.   Many see the turnout for Obama as a clear indication that the Democratic vote in the Texas primaries might well have gone to Obama if it hadn't been skewed by Republican crossover shenanigans. We'll probably never have the whole story. 

For more on this, catch the analyses of the March 4 primaries and the fight for delegates on the Diane Rehm show.

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Update:  For what it's worth with only 41% of the precincts reporting, the Dallas Morning News has this report on the outcome of the Democratic caucuses.

Texas - 3380 of 8247 Precincts Reporting 41%
Name                                                     Vote %

Obama , Barack                                  56%

Clinton , Hillary                                44%

              Uncommitted                                       0%
              Other                                                        0%