UPDATE: OVER 41% of Texans voted for Obama. That is 3,285,200 Texans

[Horse with no Name]

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I have been seeing that Texas might go blue...


I believe it now--especially in this climate.

[rustysgurl]

1. Dallas County went blue

Lived in Dallas for 20 years - never thought I would see them go blue, but they sure did, by a large margin. Unbelievable.

[PatrynXX]

14. relative said the fireworks

were going off in Austin on the news obama won.

as for which of 3 states Willard actually considered home. MI no, Mass .. no way. Utah. very. Now if only we can fix these election laws. but first lets fix the election lines.. they tried to kill the voting process this time and enough of that. This isn't Iran

[LeftInTX]

32. Fireworks!! +1,000

[Major Nikon]

28. Dallas county was blue in 2008

http://www.city-data.com/elec08/DALLAS-TEXAS.html

Probably the only reason it was red in 2000 and 2004 was because Shrub claimed to be from Texas.

[northoftheborder]

2. But we are sending a TeaParty Fundie to the US Senate. Yuck.

[Horse with no Name]

5. We are sending him to a MORE progressive Senate than we had last time

He is in the minority party.

He is an idiot--my hope is that he will be eaten alive.

[rocktivity]

3. We've got to get back to Dean's fifty state strategy

Investing time and money in making red states bluer -- even if it means the James Carville type don't get their fat consulting fees.


rocktivity

[Horse with no Name]

8. We need help in Texas

Maybe with these kinds of numbers, the DNC will pay us a little bit of attention.

[flying_wahini]

4. Texas will be BLUE in 10 years or less.

Population growth among minorities and the proof that voting makes a difference will have a huge ripple effect. IMHO

[KittyWampus]

9. probably would be now if not for gerrymandering

[justabob]

13. +1 gerrymandering is a huge problem nt

[ananda]

19. That's it - gerrymandering.

How do we beat the redistricting? It's set up to put the same type Reeps in place who set up the gerrymandering in the first place? To change it, we have to elect more Dems. It feels like a catch-22.

That's why we lost the national House too... gerrymandered red states. It hurts.

[former9thward]

55. Gerrymandering has nothing to do with state wide races.

Obama's share of the vote went down from 2008 and gerrymandering did not have anything to do with that. I don't live in TX so I don't know why it occurred.

[LisaL]

6. But a lot more republicans voted for Romney.

It actually appears to be turning redder.

[Ken Burch]

7. Any improvement in the state legislature?

The Republiban have had a majority there for years now. It'd be nice if we at least got that whittled down a bit tonight.

[LisaL]

10. No. I don't think so.

[Horse with no Name]

11. Not really

the redistricting saw to that.

[ananda]

25. One slight but important improvement in Texas state senate.

We kept the Reeps from getting another super majority. Dem Wendy Davis beat tea party candidate Mark Shelton. See:

http://herald-zeitung.com/news/local_news/article_b3dc36f2-28a8-11e2-84ba-001a4bcf887a.html

[w8liftinglady]

38. THAT was a big deal.

[txdemsftw]

41. Hell to the yes!!!

[texanwitch]

12. We did good.

The polling location today had a steady flow of traffic.

I say we are purple right now, blue is coming.

We can send good people to congress, that will help.

[Horse with no Name]

15. Yes.

We had a record number of registered voters this election.

Our county had a 65% turnout of registered voters.

[texanwitch]

18. That is a huge turnout.

We should be proud as Texans after this.

Our state is not a deep red anymore.

Purple going to blue.

[LondonReign2]

30. Uh, sorry, but we have a HUGE amount of work to do

Republican margins since 1976 (the last time Texas went blue):

1980 14%
1984 27%
1988 13%
1992 3%
1996 5%
2000 21%
2004 22%
2008 12%
2012 16%

I don't see a blue trend there

[LisaL]

31. That's what I said. It's not getting any bluer.

I am not sure why people want to insist that it is, but if you look at the numbers, clearly its not.

[FVZA_Colonel]

16. Probably not 2016 (as sad as that is),

but 2020? It could happen.

[justabob]

17. won't hurt to try nt

[FVZA_Colonel]

20. Certainly not.

I guess I'm just too conservative (heh) on this, but maybe it could happen sooner than that.

[justabob]

21. lol

It is very possible that I am overly optimistic. It is frustrating to constantly hear that Texas is too red and it cannot be done when with an all hands on deck attitude we might just make a difference. How many people do you know who don't vote because "it won't change anything"? What if all those people voted? What if we get hispanics and whatever other blocs aren't voting currently to the polls? What if the state party and DNC and whatever other dem orgs make sure there is a dem in EVERY race? You know?

[bookman]

22. One vote here...

... but there is a long way to go!


Sadly.

[budkin]

23. Fuck yeah representing Austin! Only a couple more cycles until this is a purple state!

[texpatriot2004]

24. I grew up there. I have people there who

are most definitely blue voters.

[LeftInTX]

26. We unseated a Congressional Republican!!!

Pete Gallego (D) unseated Tea Party Fransisco Canseco (R)
23rd Congressional District - (Southwest Texas)

Yeah!!!

[Horse with no Name]

27. Wooohoooo WTG! n/t

[Paladin]

39. That's A HUGE Win. (nt)

[LisaL]

48. Bill Clinton helped!

[LeftInTX]

52. Yep! He did

[Horse with no Name]

29. updated.

[angel823]

33. Harris County (Houston)

is now blue (barely):

Romney 579.068
Obama 579,070

I am looking forward to a blue Texas in the future!

Angel in Texas

[Horse with no Name]

34. That is awesome! n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. And we have an awesome Democratic Mayor!

(who is also the first out lesbian mayor of a large city...) Tell me Texas isn't turning. Complacency in the bigots down here is going to help that blue-ing along.

[kentauros]

36. Okay, I'm going to claim to be one of the two votes over 579,068

to make the majority! Who's the other Harris Co./Houston Dem here to claim the remaining one?

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. I'll do it!

[LisaL]

37. Obama won Harris county in 2008 by a larger margin.

[w8liftinglady]

40. I think in 2014, we need to push GOTV even harder.

And work on voter suppression in the meantime.

I think Joe Barton would have lost.
There is no public transportation in his district.
https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov06_164_race6.htm

[grantcart]

42. Question: What happens 2016 when you put Castro on the ballot as VP?????????????????????

[Horse with no Name]

44. I'd sure like him on the ballot as Governor first, lol

One of the key things in our Demographics is the Hispanic explosion.

We NEED a Hispanic Governor to best represent the demographics of this state.

He is a perfect choice.

[txdemsftw]

43. Fellow Texans...

we can do this...we have a lot of bright, educated people here that ARE voting blue. We just need more hands on deck and more support!

I honestly believe TX will be a nice shade of purple-blue by 2020.

[w8liftinglady]

47. between now and 2014, I plan to register 2000 new voters

we are going to start absentee voting.Screw this noise. I will pay for the stamps here.
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml

[DawgHouse]

46. Lots of good Dems in TX

and in FL too! The ground work for TeamObama was awesome.

[former9thward]

49. 43.6% voted for Obama in 2008.

So 41% is a move in the R direction. I don't see that state moving much in many years.

[Horse with no Name]

51. You would have to factor in ALL of the new voters that registered

we had record turnouts.

[former9thward]

53. If the Obama % went down then Rs must have had record turnouts also.

That is just math. On edit: Texas 2008 McCain 4479328 Obama 3528633
2012 Romney 4555799 Obama 3294440

So Rs were up almost 100,000 and Ds were down 250,000.

[Melissa G]

54. I don't trust the black box numbers in TX

and no candidate can afford a statewide recount in a state this large. This is why the repubs are so hard to unseat. They count the votes here. They can be padding them R as well.

[Horse with no Name]

56. +1000 n/t

[myrna minx]

50. Way to go Texas - home of the Fighting Dems!

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-07.htm

[TBF]

57. Demographics favor our party -

we'll get there but it won't be overnight.