3,528,633 vs 3,491,555

[efhmc]

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That's the number of people in Texas who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 compared to the number of people in Colorado, Indiana and Minnesota who were lucky enough to be in the majority to vote for him also. (BTW, I could break the numbers down even further and include more states but hopefully you get the point.) I want to get your attention for two reason. One is something that has been going on and on and on and on since I started posting here 10 years ago and that is the stupid, pointless and infinitely unhelpful bashing of my state and peripherally of the over 3 million people who voted for our president.
The main reason I hope to get your attention is to help get a great candidate elected our new senator. Ted Cruz, the republican, is a tea party candidate who is the worse of the worse. Smart, arrogant, steeped in misogamy and homophobia, he claims to be Hispanic, was born in Canada, is the love of Carl Rove and his billionaire buddies, and who will continue to take my state into the nether regions of the most primitive right wing religious idolatry which plagues those hopelessly addicted to fox, rush and its ingrained unacknowledged bigotry for their decision making. If you were to watch anything in the msm, you would only know that there is one unbeatable tea party candidate running in Texas. But that is not true. There is a Democratic candidate, Paul Sadler, moderate and experienced and a hard worker for education. Here is more info: http://www.sadlerforsenate.com/bio/. Those of us who care about making things better for all the people may be ready for a change. Maybe you can help, if not with money or people hours, perhaps you can do so by lifting us up with hope and suggestions and by constantly reminding people that there are two parties in Texas and that one of them has a great candidate for senator. Thanks.

[freshwest]

1. Forget the Alamo, remember Ann Richards! It wasn't that long ago. Go blue, Texas!

[patrice]

4. & Molly Ivins!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. +1 for Molly Ivins. She had Mark Twain's kind of mind! nt

[efhmc]

18. Now that would have been an interesting conversation.

I think Ann might have been too racy for him.

[efhmc]

5. Love Ann and Cecile. Both strong, beautiful inside and out Texas women.

There are lots of us.

[progree]

22. & Jim Hightower and the Hightower Lowdown n/t

[efhmc]

24. Went to college with him. Beginning to think this (Texas) is a small place.

No, it wasn't Austin. North Texas. Vaguely remember helping with some campaign of his there as a Freshman. Have to ask my sister. She is the one with the good memory.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

28. Barbara Jordan

[efhmc]

34. Now that is someone I really miss. Gone much too early. What a large voice and

intellect.

[ananda]

36. And Lloyd Doggett and Julian and Joaquin Castro!

nt

[AverageJoe90]

2. Thanks.

Wiki says Teddy boy was born in Calgary, Alta......so yeah.

Also, will be voting for Sadler ASAP. He needs out support.

[efhmc]

6. My daughter went to hs with him. Says he and his group were convinced that

they would be great political leaders, even pres, Obviously not him. Also says very smart but very arrogant.

[AverageJoe90]

11. Why am I not surprised?

After all, he IS a Teabagger these days.

[freshwest]

27. The voters need to reminded of his socialist Canadian roots, haha.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Don't forget to mention Romney speaks French and likes it!

[patrice]

3. Kansas Democrats feel your pain. I promise I will not insult the state of Texas.

You should see some of the stuff said about Kansas here.

Solidarity, efhmc!

[efhmc]

8. Why insult your fellow Democrats? We can't do anything about the

dummies in out midst but try to educate and fight on.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. 4,479,328 is the number that counts, though...

and almost a million more assholes voted for McCain than Obama.

But, I do see your point that Texas is not nearly all bad and I have heard of this Cruz person and do dearly hope that a million or so have awakened from the teabagger dream and put Sadler in. I shall help to whatever small extent I can.

[efhmc]

9. You are saying to me

that over 3 millions of us don't matter because we were not in the majority. Yet in about 3/4 of the other states we would have been the majority. What should I do with that fact. Slink and go away? Be convinced that because we are in the minority we don't count?

[TreasonousBastard]

10. No, that's not what I said. I'm disappointed you took it that way.

[efhmc]

13. Sorry, DU Texas bashing has made me lose my manners.

I wish we were in the majority and never give up hope. I thought that was what you were saying. (BTW, I was also taught not to blame others for my loss of good manners. Sorry Mom and to you also.)

[TreasonousBastard]

21. Everything's cool. Things are getting kinda edgey now with...

the election so close and we're all seeing things.

The good news is that almost half your state voted for Obama and just a half million or so have to come over to the dark side this year. Methinks Romney just might have enough baggage to send over that half million and take Cruz down with him.

[efhmc]

23. What keeps us from getting there is the endless amounts of cash the repugs have to

spend on negative ads and their ability, even without voters suppression laws, to intimidate minority voters; by telling them they will lose their jobs if they go to vote during work hours and by stationing people near the polls to pretend to take down names to "report" back to their bosses. This works well in small towns. They will never go down easily and they will never bow to the real will of the people.

[DLnyc]

12. I just gave 25 bucks to Sadler's campaign

If you guys can get a turnout for Sadler, and hence presumably also for Obama, if you can make the rethugnicans have to fight for Texas . . . then I think the rethug party finally collapses in on itself and becomes a relic of the past. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch, either.

Thanks for fighting the good fight deep in the heart of the beast.

[efhmc]

14. Thanks so much!!! What we need is to get him on some national tv shows.

Increasing his visibility would be tremendous.

[DLnyc]

19. Honestly, I think he has a shot at winning the Senate seat.

And when the Senate race heats up, that starts to say a lot of Democrats are gonna turn out in Texas. Which says the Rmoney campaign is gonna start shitting bricks, because without Texas (and her 38 electoral votes), the Republicans can never win another national election! In fact, I would say if they even have to spend time and money campaigning in Texas, they can't really compete in a national race!

Hey, if you can't dream big, you just die small.

[efhmc]

20. Bless you.

[Tx4obama]

16. Here's a link that has a 2008 CHART of the numbers for ALL 50 states

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_u.s._presidential_election#Result

[efhmc]

17. I think that is where I got my numbers.

Added then up several ways before including the total numbers for the states which came closest to Texas' numbers.

[defacto7]

25. Here's to the Great State of Texas and the 3.5 million blue votes and counting!

How many Utahs worth of Dems could fit into 1 Texas worth of Dems?

There are aprox. 2,817,222 total in Utah. There are aprox. 648,000 Democrats (give or take most of them).

That makes about 5.45 Utah worth of Blues to 1 Texas worth of Blues.

(these numbers could be + or - 100% points because I just tried to figure it out in my head)


Great Job TEXAS!

[efhmc]

26. Unfortunately still not enough to win here but I wanted to remind people that

when they bash Texas because of Baby Bush and Perry, they are belittling lots of other people who voted Democratic.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

29. Excellent post, efhmc

Would be nice if Alan Grayson brought Paul Sadler in under his wing and if he could get on the teevee. I'll never be guilty of bashing your state out of respect for my dad's friend in Plano who is as blue (except for her white hair) a person as you'd ever want to meet. She despairs to him frequently via e-mail about the state of her state. But she contributes to campaigns and VOTES and of course, there are millions more like her.

This is a hugely significant race, and we'll be watching.

[efhmc]

35. Now that is the type of post that gives me hope. Thanks for

sharing.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. Every big city voted Obama.

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[efhmc]

33. A beautiful map even if there is too much red in it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. Most of that red is empty land.

Try this, based on population density:

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[efhmc]

39. Looks like a warped butterfly.

[Lex]

38. It really is a technology-education vs post-agrarian split.

Or in other words, city vs rural split. At least in general terms.

[efhmc]

41. Most of the ultra conservative land repugs are dying off.

Too many of the younger generation have no desire to vote probably because they see the land in the hands of uncaring, rich white guys without a thought for anything or anyone but big business.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

43. Some of it is that, however a LOT of it is Republicans telling rural voters,...

....their money is being stolen from them and is going towards welfare in the "inner cities" so lazy people can kick back and smoke crack while watching cable TV. Guess what color they claim those lazy people are.

They present themselves as the heroes that will swoop into Washington and put a stop to that outrage.

[countmyvote4real]

32. Go Blue, Texas!

As if...

[efhmc]

42. Not helpful at all.