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Politics / Feb. 17, 2008 at 12:02 am

The race for Texas is on

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama opened up headquarters in Austin, TX, today as they prepare for primaries to end in Wisconsin and Washington on Tuesday and then begin the fight for Ohio and Texas, states that will both hold their primaries on March 4th. This will be the first time in 47 years that Texans will vote in a primary before the Democratic candidate has been decided.

From a story in the New York Times:

“She [Hillary] has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” said one Democratic superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. “The campaign is starting to come to terms with that.”

Bill Clinton led two rallies earlier tonight at his wife’s headquarters–too many people showed up for him to speak to everyone at one so he spoke inside to hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters who had been waiting for hours and then climbed on top of a Ford and essentially repeated his speech for everyone else outside.

Here’s a two-minute clip from the middle of Clinton’s speech. I didn’t edit it and it was taken from a small camera held over my head while aggressive fans elbowed me from both sides as they tried to push closer to the front of the room.

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