3.5 million Texans voted for Obama. More than anywhere besides CA, FL and NY.

[girl gone mad]

Our 3 biggest cities all went for Barack.

Please consider that the next time you feel like bashing this state.


We may not be blue (yet), but there are more Democrats here than in most blue states and there are more Obama voters here than in his home state of Illinois.



And Bush is still from Connecticut, btw.

[texpatriot2004]

1. Yeah for Texas, that's great nm

[Maestro]

2. Yessiree and my wife and I are two of them.

We are on a way to being a blue state again!

[comtec]

3. I'm sorry but it'll take time to fogive Tx for W

but we can work together to fix that :)

[readmoreoften]

4. Maybe you should blame Connecticut for that. It's where he's from.

And the vote rigging here is insane. Our cities are bluer than your suburbs. I will never apologize and I take no responsibility for that ass clown.

[BDW1964]

5. W is NOT a Texan

He is from Connecticut and only plays at being a Texan. The Bushes are as much Texans as is John Kerry. Texas was targeted as a part of the Nixon Southern strategy and used by Old Money Republicans to gain power. Fortunately, a lot of Texans are starting to recognize the duplicity of the GOP.

[comtec]

6. He was governor, for 2 terms, and rode that into the white house

with a considerable amount of cheating, admitted.
but he and rove cut their teeth politically in Texas.
Anyone can make a mistake of electing an idiot with a slick man once... but twice? (says the cringing Californian)

[girl gone mad]

7. I've forgiven CA for Reagan.

I'll never understand what Texans saw in that carpetbagger Bush, except that RW religious groups are strong here and there's no counterbalance.

I wish Ann Richards and Molly Ivans were alive to see this day.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. I haven't and not for Nixon either.

I agree about Ann and Molly.

[JVS]

8. So although TX votes more red than the Dakotas, you want props because your population is big?

:rofl:

[girl gone mad]

11. 3,500,000 Democrats is nothing to laugh at..

but do go on.

:eyes:

[JVS]

13. Neither is an 11% gap in favor of McCain.

Sorry, evaluation is on percentage.

You have 34 electoral votes, Virginia has 13, yet that liberal bastion is able to get half as many Obama votes.

Virginia is better.

[readmoreoften]

15. Oh right. And how much of that is stolen?

[JVS]

21. You tell me?

And since when did crooked election practices become the hallmark of a kick-ass state? If anything that would make tx look even worse.

[readmoreoften]

16. And you want props because you live in a blue state? How nice for you.

I'll never understand how people think they have the right to dis an entire state of people because they're fortunate enough--or wealthy enough--to live in a blue area.

LIke you deserve something because you live in Massachusetts or New Jersey. Please.

Frankly the fact that 47% of NJ voted for McCain is more disgusting to me.

[JVS]

22. My state has people who know well enough to vote in their self-interest.

Sadly for texas, such people are firmly in the minority.

[derby378]

10. Unfortunately, that no longer matters - Texas Dems are in damage-control mode

We got our asses kicked last night. Instead of capitalizing on the gains we made statewide with the election of Nick Lampson, Ciro Rodriguez, and a slew of new local Democrats in Dallas County and Hays County, Republicans have staged a massive counterattack and blunted our momentum.

No Larry Joe Doherty. No Eric Roberson. No Rick Noriega. And, worst of all, no more Nick Lampson. His district is back in Republicans hands ever after suffering from years of DeLayism.

The only appreciable gain that North Texans made that I'm aware of is that Carol Kent managed to unseat Tony Goolsby. Rain Minns, unfortunately, failed to dislodge John Carona from the state senate.

As of this morning, Texas Democrats are in big trouble. The 2010 census is just around the corner, and the last thing we need is a replay of the 2003 redistricting debacle. We need to figure out what our major malfunction is, and fast.

[crispini]

14. Miklos won,

and Bob Romano came within 10 votes of winning. Too bad nobody gave any money or paid any attention to THAT race; we'd be +4 in the state house instead of +3. And +3 is nothing to sneezse at.

Nobody ever expected Rain or Roberson to win. Their districts are still far too republican.

[derby378]

17. Actually, Rain and Carona were tied 47-47 according to local polling...

Rain Minns looked like she had a chance to unseat John Carona. I think her campaign rattled his cage, and he came out swinging with an aggressive early voting push, including having his supporters dogging Rain at the polls.

[crispini]

18. Who did that poll, and when? And how?

Because there's polls, and then there's "polls," yaknowwhatImean?

Texas has a long way to go, but I'm pretty proud of Dallas county for staying blue, blue, blue.

[derby378]

20. At least we kept Lupe Valdez as our sheriff

She was facing some rather blistering attacks, especially with the county commissioners trying to hamstring her so that Cannaday could coast to victory.

I'll try to find that poll, though.

[crispini]

24. Yay Lupe!

Indeed. I'm a big fan of her. :D

[charlie]

12. Holy crap

I'm looking at a CNN map and not 3, but 5 of our biggest cities went blue -- Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso. Yesterday, I would've thought their combined populations would cinched it, I'm surprised it's not so.

[crispini]

19. Hee. After I get done crunching numbers on some House races,

that's the next thing I'm going to look at. :D

[charlie]

23. Groovy!

I'll be really interested in what you find.

[MrsBrady]

25. much more rural area than urban n/t

[acmavm]

26. So why didn't we win????

edit: In Texas that is?

[texanwitch]

27. Which state but a Bush in the White House.

Daddy Bush was who's VP?

If Daddy Bush wasn't a VP, Junior would not have been running for governor.

Then there is Jeb Bush, which state put him in office.

Let's not forget Nixon, where was he from, thanks CA.


The state of CA gave us Reagan and Nixon for presidents.

Let's spread the blame.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. Four in my family.

:bounce:

[dkofos]

29. The problem in TX is the damn voting machines!!