The News About Obama And Clinton Claims Of Misdoings In Ohio And Texas

Yesterday my home state of Ohio and Texas had their primary elections and caucuses. In both states one or the other of the two Democratic candidates, Obama and Clinton, had complaints about the voting system.

In Ohio Barack Obama successfully filed a court complaint asking that some polling places be kept open late because of ballot shortages. In Texas Hilary Clinton may mount a legal challenge to the state's caucus results. Texas has a two-step election, a primary and a caucus. Clinton won the primary, but it looks like Obama has won the caucus. Clinton is claiming that Obama supporters illegally obtained caucus packets in several precincts throughout the state.

It’s all very confusing and a Clinton supporter even introduced a resolution to abolish the caucus system. Maybe the system should be abolished, but to abolish it in the middle of an election would be unfair.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

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The News About Super Tuesday

Well, the biggest primary of the season has ended and although there was a decisive winner for the Republicans the Democratic race is still on the line. John McCain was the definite winner of the Republican race and this would usually mean he would get the Republican nomination, but the win wasn’t big enough for him to clinch the nomination.

On the Democratic side the race came down to Clinton and Obama as expected. Clinton won the states that had the most delegates, but Obama won the smaller and mid-sized states giving him 14 states to Clinton’s 8.

With no decisive nominee for either party on Super Tuesday, the biggest primary ever in the US, the candidates look ahead to next week’s primaries in Maryland and Virginia.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

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