Politics | Barack Obama Obama Appears To Gain in Texas Delegate Count State convention tally would boost him past Clinton overall there By Jonas Oransky Posted Mar 31, 2008 12:43 PM CDT Copied Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at a rally in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, file) Barack Obama apparently overtook Hillary Clinton in Texas’ pledged-delegate count after this weekend’s regional Democratic conventions netted him seven to nine more at-large delegates than Clinton, the Houston Chronicle reports. “We can confirm now that Barack Obama won Texas,” an aide said after the campaign's math gave the Illinois senator a five-delegate lead; Clinton's camp puts Obama's edge at three. Clinton won 65 delegates to Obama's 61 in the state's March 4 primary; the disparity that emerged this weekend mixes in the results of the state’s caucuses. A Clinton aide vowed to take the fight to Texas' June convention, saying she could pick off two of Obama’s pledged delegates—ultimately earning a Texas tie or a tiny margin of victory. Read These Next Details trickle out on 2 more victims of the Minneapolis shooting. Isolated tribe members show up in an unexpected place. The Air Force has changed its tune on Ashli Babbitt. One key to Telsa's huge court loss: a hacker in Starbucks. Report an error