Have you seen the vote results for Travis County? Bush carried it 47%-42% in 2000, but Kerry carried it 56%-42% in 2004. Boy, they've really gotten to hate W. in Austin since he left the Governor's Mansion! With numbers like that, its no wonder that Doggett won so easily.
Austin, Boston, and Madison. Birds of a feather.
Austin (Travis County) isn't known as the Berkley on the Colorado for nothing.
Have you seen the vote results for Travis County? Bush carried it 47%-42% in 2000, but Kerry carried it 56%-42% in 2004. Boy, they've really gotten to hate W. in Austin since he left the Governor's Mansion! With numbers like that, its no wonder that Doggett won so easily."
Yes, I saw that number, and frankly I am disappointed ... in my own precinct (50-50!!), in the county, in TCRP. I just compared with 2002 numbers against statewides, and we had Perry at 46% ,Dewhurst at 38%, our county judge at 40% ... about 82,000 GOP voters in 2002. This year about 147,000 Bush republican voters, but 196,000 Democrat Kerry voters.
We are down a bit from 2002, and down from 2000 as well.
Wrong direction! A county-wide Judge race was 59% to 40%.
We lost every countywide election, and practically every race at the countywide. That is different from before, when we would win some GOP races, eg, judicial races.
The current gap is not narrowing - 20 points!
I attribute it to a very fired up Democratic turnout-the-base effort and lots of W-hatred among the kool aid drinkers.
Something needs to be fixed in Travis.
Some of that is the drain of the Austin metro area into the adjacent county (Williams I think, but I could be wrong as to the name), which is hyper GOP. It is a mistake to look at individual counties, rather than metro areas as a whole.