On November 4, McCain won Texas' 34 electoral votes. McCain received 55.53% of the vote while Obama received 43.75% of the vote. In total votes, McCain received 4,467,748 votes to Obama's 3,521,164.
The four biggest cities in Texas, Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, all went for Obama. Also, the southern part of Texas went heavily for Obama. This is probably due to the large Hispanic population. However, most of the state's counties did gor for McCain.
All four of the big cities also voted for Democrat Rick Noriega for Senate. However, Republican incumbant John Cornyn won the state.
It wasn't too much of a suprise that these big cities didn't vote like the rest of the state did. Dallas has been getting more purple and had a Democratic sweep in the 2006 elections. Austin has always been a liberal city. San Antonio has a large Hispanic population.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
McCain Wins Battle of the Texas Papers
With all the major Texas newspaper's endorsements end, here is a tally of who got what:
Texas Papers for McCain (11):
Amarillo Globe-News
The Beaumont Enterprise
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
The Dallas Morning News
The Galveston County Daily News
Kerrville Daily Times
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung
San Antonio Express-News
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Texas Papers for Obama (7):
Austin American-Statesman
The Eagle (Bryan-College Station)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Houston Chronicle
Longview News Journal
The Lufkin Daily News
San Angelo Standard-Times
Texas Expects High Turnout at Polls
Based on the turnout in early voting, Texas Secretary of State, Hope Andrade, predicted Monday that 9 million of the state's voters will cast ballots in this year's election.
That would represent 68 percent of Texas' 13.5 million registered voters, falling short of the turnout in 1992, which was 73 percent.
Monday, November 3, 2008
1 Day to Go!!!
Texas has become an interesting state in this election. A historically Red state, Jimmy Carter was the last democrat to win Texas in 1976. McCain has been leading polls by a large margin. Pollster.com has McCain leading 54.3 to Obama's 40.8. However, this is not as large of a lead as most would expect. Texas is becoming a much more purple state. While it is generally more conservative, there are cities, such as Austin, that are liberal and Texas is becoming more and more liberal.
That being said, I think it is safe to call Texas for McCain. He has history and polling in his favor and Texas has not become Democratic enough for it to change this election. As you will notice, neither side has spent time campaigning in Texas, because both have figured it would go to McCain. What will be interesting is to see how Republicans do in local races. With a lot of Republicans up for re-election and Texas becoming less conservative, this could prove to be a bad election year for Republicans.
Texas' 34 electoral votes will go to McCain.
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