![]() There are more Republican delegates from the Dallas area alone than Republican delegates in all of New Hampshire. Another 29 Democratic delegates are unassigned “superdelegates” who are free to declare allegiance to a candidate at the national convention in July. Texas has 155 Republican delegates and 222 Democratic delegates up for grabs on election night. Other states, such as Texas, dole out delegates proportionally, which makes things a bit more confusing. In those states, the candidate receiving the most votes win all the delegates from that state. ![]() Sources for graphics: Republican and Democratic Parties of Texas. There are 29 additional superdelegates that are allocated at the national convention. There are another 77 delegates that are allocated based on statewide vote totals. Texas' 31 Senate districts have a certain number of delegates that total 145 delegates. There are 222 Democratic delegates available on March 1. There are 47 at-large delegates allocated based on statewide totals.ġ08 + 47 = 155 delegates Democrats: 251 total Republicans: 155 totalĮach of the 36 congressional districts gets 3 delegates to total 108 delegates. Nationally, there are 2,472 Republican delegates and 4,763 Democratic delegates, and the winning candidates have to secure half of their party’s delegates - plus one. Winning the Democratic and Republican nominations is a matter of collecting the most delegates. ![]() The state's primaries - set for March 1, with early voting now under way - offer more delegates than all the states to come before combined.īut translating millions of votes into hundreds of delegates at party nominating conventions this summer is complicated. Roberto R.Texas is by far the biggest prize yet in the presidential nominating sweepstakes. “This is an important book, as it describes life in the Rio Grande Valley rather than ‘on the border.’ The notion of ‘the border’ as an open range in need of external help is challenged, as the author illustrates the wide range of leadership and programmatic change occurring in the Rio Grande Valley.” Graham, Professor and Chair, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA Written clearly and crisply with a wide readership in mind, Rhetoric and Reality is mandatory reading for those wanting to better understand the US-Mexico border region and the people who live there.” Rhetoric and Reality is an excellent example of place-based, reflexive scholarship appropriate for use in courses on border theory, applied anthropology, and research methods. Fleuriet presents a balanced counter-narrative that that shows the region as one of growth, innovation, complexity, and rich with meaning. Rhetoric and Reality asks us to question our own assumptions, especially about those areas that drive national decisions about resource allocation, economic development and national security.“Rhetoric and Reality is an important ethnographic study of the deeply misunderstood, increasingly vilified, Rio Grande Valley located on the Texas-Mexico border. national compass-where the Valley goes, the rest of the country soon will follow. As she deconstructs the common narrative of a border in need of external intervention to control corruption, poverty, sickness, and violence, Fleuriet engagingly illustrates the range of regional organizing, local development strategies, and community responses in the borderlands that ultimately situate the Rio Grande Valley as the “true North” of the U.S. Jill Fleuriet contrasts the rhetoric of national political and media discourse with that of local border leaders in economics, health care, politics, education, law enforcement, philanthropy, and activism. Stemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 2010s, and decades of the author’s professional and personal immersion in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, Rhetoric and Reality illuminates a place at the heart of our national conversation: the U.S.-Mexico border.
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