Hillary Wins Texas, Gets the Big Mo

Posted on March 5, 2008

Well, she actually did it: Hillary Clinton won the Texas primary. Her victory speech in Ohio came before she knew she won Texas, but she sounded upbeat and reenergized. This is a major win for her: she's really turned her campaign around.

Bill Clinton was in Austin at a victory party and he seemed really happy, as did the boisterous, really young crowd. Exit polls show that Hillary won women, white voters, Hispanic voters and older voters. Her coalition has come back together.

So what does it all mean? It means that the Democratic primary race is back on in a big way. Neither candidate can get to the magic number of 2024 delegates (Howard Dean told Wolf Blitzer that it's 2024 not 2025 as has been reported elsewhere) so under the DNC rules, the superdelegates will select who wins. The superdelegates are going to go with whoever has the momentum, and right now Hillary can claim that she's won every big state she's run in but Illinois (Obama's home state). One thing's for sure: this is the best reality show on TV right now.