At this point, close followers of the Clinton-Obama race will have noticed that Ms. (“Texas has a primary and a caucus?”) Clinton doesn’t seem to have invested much in either of the states she is now counting upon to save her campaign on March 4 – Texas or Ohio. The New York Times plays into this with their headline “Pieces of Texas Turn Primary Into a Puzzle.” Certainly, Ms. Clinton, along with most pundits, has been heard to publicly puzzle over the Texas system in the past few weeks. While Senator Barack Obama’s campaign seems to have planned for this from the start. Presuming that I’ve already made the point about how arrogant and unprepared Ms. Clinton has been in this campaign, I direct your attention to this juicy bit of local color from the Times‘s piece on the Texas primary:
Ben Kerr, 66, a medical clinic administrator in Waco who was eating lunch there Friday at a venerable old diner that serves Tater Tots, shakes and dripping burgers but is incongruously called the Health Camp. Mr. Kerr described living for many years east of Houston in Port Arthur, which he said many people considered the true capital of Louisiana because of its Cajun population. But he now considers himself a man of Central Texas, and as part of a smaller area around Waco with a deeply independent bent.