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.
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