Mar. 5, Feature - Reporter Katie Heim reports on the Texas' chaotic day of chaotic democracy.

Texas is the only state in the country to hold both a primary and a caucus for its democratic electoral process…voters come out to the polls not once on election day, but twice to voice their choice for the democratic nominee and make changes to the Democratic party platform. Caucus results were slow in coming, but favored the Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, while primary results favored Senator Clinton. Strong grassroots efforts by the Obama campaign may have brought voters back out to caucus for the Senator, who lost to the former first lady in Ohio earlier in the evening.

The race for the democratic nomination in Texas remained too close to call well into Wednesday morning, however large media outlets began to predict Senator Clinton would win the heavily Republican state by a margin of four points around midnight. The Clinton campaign sorely needed Texas delegates in order to stay in what has been one of the tightest democratic primaries in recent memory.

African American voters overwhelmingly favored Barack Obama in the Lone Star State, while a majority of Latino voters backed Senator Clinton; in a state with a heavy Hispanic population that base of support may have made all the difference.

Reporting for Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston, TX, I'm Katie Heim

A Closer Look At Other Local Outcomes

Also, in Texas, Representative Ron Paul, Republican Presidential candidate managed to hold onto his Congressional seat.

In the state of Rhode Island, voters give Clinton another win for the night, continuing to score strong among her base - women. Dori Smith reports on the long day at the polls there.

Obama won decisively in the small state of Vermont. Also in Vermont, voters in the two towns with a total population of 13,000 people voted to arrest President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Now we turn to Larry Bensky, former Pacifica National Correspondent and Political Science Professor at California State University.