McCain leads Obama 54 - 44 in Texas! In rasmussen poll.

[ej510]

[mucifer]

1. Nooooo!!! REally?!?

:bounce:

[yodermon]

2. lol

[ej510]

5. We won't win but I want McCain to have to eek out a win.

[sayso7]

3. Give it another 2 elections

And I promise you Texas will go Blue, I see Obama signs in yards all around me. And the only McCain signs are the ones the Texas GOP places along the roads. It won't be a solid blue, but if a dem can come in and win the areas in DFW, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, El Paso, and South Texas than they'll have a good chance of carrying the state.

[ThatsMyBarack]

17. Welcome to DU, sayso7!

:hi: :patriot:

[efhmc]

31. I was just having this conversation last night with my daughter.

We are working for and going in the right direction.

[musicblind]

41. Welcome to DU! Excellent first post!

:hi:

[YOY]

4. I really like our Texas DUers.

The sheer amount of stupid they must deal with daily makes me feel for them.

[Erin Elizabeth]

12. Hey thanks!

DU can be a lifesaver, though honestly I live in a pretty blue area of Texas, so it's not TOO bad. Plus I've never lived in a blue state, ever in my whole life, so I don't know what it's like anyway. I will in a couple more election cycles.

[YOY]

15. Sounds like the Austin area. Oh but poor Seabeyond.

She lives in Amarillo...the nastiest pit I've ever had the misfortune of passing through several times.

[Erin Elizabeth]

19. No, Dallas.

Dallas County has gone blue! In 2006, 95% of all Republican incumbent judges running for re-election in this county were defeated by Dems! And Dallas County has an openly lesbian Latina SHERIFF. Yep.

And I live in one of the bluer areas.

We're rocking and rolling in my neck of the woods. But yes, Amarillo would be the suckage to live in. For many reasons, HA! Just kidding (sort of).

[YOY]

21. I always get them confused...Dallas and Houston.

Was Houston the one folks refer to as a "pit"? Never been there or to Dallas so I cannot say.

A lesbian Latina Sherriff in a major Texas city? TAKE THAT WALKER TEXAS FUNDIE!

[Erin Elizabeth]

23. Yep.

Sheriff Lupe Valdez. She's up for re-election.

Dallas is the one next to Ft. Worth up in the northern part of the state. Houston is down on the Gulf coast.

[Erin Elizabeth]

25. Oh and lemme give Sheriff Valdez some love:

http://www.lupevaldez.com/

I've met her, awesome person.

[Citizen_Penn]

14. What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

:kick:

Thanks for the kind words. Think of me on election day. I'll be the alternate judge in a very red precinct.

The last time I agreed to do this, Bill Clinton was elected - 1992.

Took me 16 years to decide to tough it out again.

[seabeyond]

24. not that i am texan but have lived here a couple decades. and isnt that the truth, lol

sheer amount of stupid.

thanks....

i think why so many texas is on du is we are desperate for liberal thinking, discussing, hearing.

[hamsterjill]

33. Thank you from San Antonio!

Yes, most of us deal with a great deal of "stupid" every day. It's nice to have a place to come to (DU) where it can be reaffirmed that there are other parts of the country who get it. We do what we can here in Texas, but we're still swimming upstream at the present time.

Oh, to see my Texas blue again one day!!!!

[YOY]

37. Could be worse!

You could be in Utah. That's a whole different kind of stupid though.

[efhmc]

34. Made my calls yesterday to my caucus people and they are

all excited about voting. The number of people in my precinct who voted in the Dem primary went up in 2 years from 35 to 150. Not much in the total amount of over 1000 registered voters(less than half of these vote) but we are getting there. This is an extremely right wing town with all the offices and the newspaper controlled by verrrrrry "religious" repubs.

[Gruenemann]

38. Thanks!

It's nice to get a little well-deserved sympathy instead of the undeserved trashing for being Texan.

[YOY]

40. It isn't the entire state's fault that you've got a crap load of tough guys and fundies.

I've seen enough of both in the semi-Rural part of Ohio I grew up in. The only way I managed to shake being surrounded by them was moving (I moved because of job purposes actually...that was just a bonus.) If I could only tell you the number of times I've been called "N***er lover, Jewboy, and F***ot")...funny thing is I'm not gay, Jewish, nor have I ever had the opportunity to have a romantic relationship with an African American woman...too late now I'm happily married!

Hell, if we knew how to educate and deprogram them we would do it nationwide.

[galactical]

6. Why can't Obama close the deal?

lol.

[theoldman]

7. Texas is a Red state, but not all of it's cities are Red.

McCain will win the vote for president but many Democrats will also get elected in city and state offices. I voted for every Democrat on the ballot knowing that only one or two had a chance of winning because I live in a predominantly Republican area. If I decided not to vote because Obama did not have a chance of winning, none of these other Democrats would have a chance.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Notice that McCain's lead in Texas is equal to many polls showing Obama's lead in PA

:rofl:

Imagine if we were in a position where Obama was going "all in" to win texas (while reducing overall advertising there). That should give you a sense of the McCain camp's desperation, and why the freeps are going absolutely batshit right now.

[Stop Cornyn]

9. K&R - and those projections do NOT factor in the MASSIVE statewide Democratic voter registrations or

the fact that Texas favorite son Ron Paul has a VAST Texas army of Libertarian-leaning Republicans who are working NON-STOP to get Republicans to vote for Bob Barr.

[Schulzz]

10. Obama's unfavorability is too high to win TX this time, but maybe it will be in play in 2012.

If his first term is really sucessful? :shrug:

[Stop Cornyn]

29. It would take a surprise at the ballot box for Obama to carry Texas BUT McCain willn't likely exceed

50%.

There is probably a 20% chance of Obama pulliong off an upset (have you SEEN the early vote turnout -- it's record shattering) but even without a model-shifting turnout, I'm projecting something like

Obama 44-46%
McCain 49-50%
Libertarian/Green ~5%

This is not a guess (except as to the allocation of undecideds); there's polling.

I'm seeing the Senate as within the margin of error if you figure in the awesome ground-game we have.

I'm seeing at least 2 Texas statewide win and as many a 5.

[SeeHopeWin]

11. Obama is going to overwhelm McAss by november 4th...nt

[Citizen_Penn]

13. Harris County (Houston) is going blue -

I really do think it will happen this year.

We're the closest I've seen it in 20 years.

[NatBurner]

28. :)

[StopTheNeoCons]

16. Travis county (Austin) will be blue

[Erin Elizabeth]

20. Dallas County will be blue again.

And Bexar County will be blue. As well as those valley counties. Possibly others.

[Justyce]

22. Jefferson Co., where I live, is a blue county. nt

[Erin Elizabeth]

26. YAY JEFFERSON COUNTY!

Where is that? What's the county seat?

[tammywammy]

30. Jefferson County is Beaumont

[Robyn66]

18. I would LOVE to see TX go BLUE!!!

It would be the ultimate!

[spanone]

27. you seem a little too excited

nwmhtt

[bushisanidiot]

32. Wrong. It's McHate up by 10 in TX according to today's Ras.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/texas/election_2008_texas_presidential_election

you must have gotten the numbers mixed up when you looked at it.

It's 54 McHate, 44 Obama.

[Kaylee]

35. That's what the OP says.....

McCain leads by 10.

[Tatiana]

36. Isn't that what the OP is saying? Basically, that the gap is narrowing in Texas.

A 10-point spread is damn good for Texas.

As a native Texan, I believe I will see the day when it turns blue. We just gotta bring those So. Texan valley folks over to the side of the light.

[HughMoran]

39. I guess 10 points is tight for Texas

That's cool