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If Texas turns blue, can Republicans ever win the White House again?
Just the News ^ | December 25, 2020 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 12/26/2020 1:21:26 PM PST by Hojczyk

Let's start in 2000. That year, former Texas Gov. George W. Bush absolutely annihilated Democrat Al Gore in Texas, winning 59.3% of the vote to Gore's 37.9%. Bush won by 1.3 million votes of about 6 million cast.

Bush crushed Democrat John Kerry in 2004, 61.1% to 38.2%. That time he won by nearly 1.7 million votes of some 7 million ballots cast.

But things began to change when Barack Obama ran for president. While the late Sen. John McCain defeated the Democrat in 2008, he got just 55.4% of the vote to Obama's 43.6%. And McCain won by fewer than 1 million votes of about 8 million ballots cast.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney took the margin back above that million-vote mark, defeating Obama in Texas by more than 1.2 million votes of about 8 million ballots cast as he took the state by 57.1% to 41.3%.

Yet President Trump couldn't match those numbers in 2016. He won 52.1% to Democrat Hillary Clinton's 43.1%. And he won by slightly more than 800,000 votes of some 8.5 million cast.

Things got worse in 2020, when Trump got 52.1% of the vote to Joe Biden's 46.5%. While a win, his margin was just more than 600,000 votes — of nearly 11 million cast.

You read that right: 11 million. That's double the number of votes cast in the state in 1996.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: fakeelection; fakenews; stopthesteal; tds; texas
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To: Hojczyk

I am old enough to remember when Texas was as Democrat controlled as California. My county did not elect a single Republican to any office from Reconstruction until the mid 1990s. My county has not elected a Democrat for any office since 2005.


121 posted on 12/26/2020 3:00:45 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended! Fight the Return of Biden the Demented!)
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To: Texan5

Hispanics will be the saving grace for this nation....Dems will pissed,though...


122 posted on 12/26/2020 3:01:21 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (We all know President Trump....A fighter to the end......)
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To: oldbill

No it’s the wage killing ridiculous amount of LEGAL immigration that is the real problem.


123 posted on 12/26/2020 3:01:29 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hambone 1934
Hispanics will be the saving grace for this nation

Unicorns farts and Skittle rainbows....

124 posted on 12/26/2020 3:02:15 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hojczyk

IF IF biden and co get to the white house.. what they will do to us will yet be less than what they will do if there is no reason to think about the next election.

the reports were blacks were swarming to vote in GA..I presume it was the dem party getting the swarming votes.

ya know... there is no promise nor hope for folks who were being helped by Trump and then go vote for biden.. they want to be lied to??

they dont mind playing the game of promise and yanking the ball out from under??

they vote for a loser because their neighbor or their teacher. or preacher... say stay dem??

I have a problem with forgetting what biden stands for and then get all excited in line to vote for failure..lies...stupidity.


125 posted on 12/26/2020 3:04:01 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Hojczyk

There are no blue states.

There are fraud states.


126 posted on 12/26/2020 3:06:43 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead... )
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To: SkyPilot

They stole the election. They can do whatever they want now
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What is it that these people just can’t wrap their heads around? Hannity is still urging people to get out to vote in Georgia. Does he really think it’s going to matter since the massive voter fraud was never dealt with? And do these people think that the Democrats will ever allow a free and fair election? You don’t think this will be implemented in more States for the mid-terms? They don’t need Texas, they don’t fear you, they control all the counting.


127 posted on 12/26/2020 3:08:33 PM PST by Joshua (Keep paying attention to the shiny orb!)
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To: Hojczyk

If Trump isn’t POTUS for the next four years the whole country will turn blue/communist/socialist


128 posted on 12/26/2020 3:08:46 PM PST by stockpirate (A people unwilling to use extreme violence to obtain or preserve their liberty deserve the tyrants t)
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To: Hojczyk

There will only be a couple of red states in ten years...
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While everyone was watching and worrying over demographics the deep state came in took over the voting system.


129 posted on 12/26/2020 3:11:44 PM PST by Joshua (Keep paying attention to the shiny orb!)
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To: Texan5
God bless you. I know plenty of multi-generational Americans of hispanic heritage here in greater Houston. Not one of them votes Dem that I know. There's a flood of hispanic anchor children in the public schools here in Harris County, though. Gotta work on those folks.

We fight on.

130 posted on 12/26/2020 3:12:07 PM PST by Al B. ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Hojczyk

Does it really matter? I don’t see much difference.


131 posted on 12/26/2020 3:12:23 PM PST by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: central_va

How can we tell, with fraud muddying the figures so thickly?


132 posted on 12/26/2020 3:13:30 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Hojczyk

“”While the late Sen. John McCain defeated the Democrat in 2008””

I assume, they are still talking about TX???


133 posted on 12/26/2020 3:14:45 PM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: Olog-hai
Latino 66% D to 28% R
134 posted on 12/26/2020 3:16:03 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nascarnation

Like I said on another thread-most of us over 65 care more for our freedom than getting what amounts to one house payment per month from SS-from a fund that is already broke from being raided for years-and there is NO LOCKBOX-Al Gore lied about that-but if you’re worried about your SS in an independent Texas-or other state, then stay in a state that isn’t likely to split off from a socialist USSA...

Without sending taxes to fedzilla, Texas-and other states-could invest the SS fund and pay us all more than the pittance the fed pays-there is this thing called interest on investments that would raise that amount Besides, i don’t know anyone who doesn’t either own a one-or-two person business and work at it all week unless they are severely disabled-at any age-retirement on a fixed income is not really an attractive prospect to many of us...


135 posted on 12/26/2020 3:21:47 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Hojczyk

“Started invading Colorado in the 1990s...now it is like California..”

One party state. Of course I never see the GOP run anyone locally.


136 posted on 12/26/2020 3:24:20 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Hojczyk

Looking for the “Texas will never turn blue” crowd and this thread isn’t disappointing.

Texas will turn blue because Texas is turning blue.

Like saying “my house isn’t on fire” while watching smoke billow out the windows with the firemen.


137 posted on 12/26/2020 3:25:42 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Brilliant

If The Democrats succeed in stealing the Presidency, Republicans will never be elected to the Presidency again and after one or two more election cycles, will never again be elected to any national office and more and more will be shut out of local offices. A Biden “win” instantly institutionalizes and renders normal all the methods that were used to steal this election. They don’t even have to suck in a couple more Democrat States like Puerto Rico and DC. A win this time gives them total control of the vote. A Republican retention of the two GA senate seats will avail the Republic nothing. McConnell and many if not most Republican Senators will go along to get along and will pass whatever the Democrats push. The COurts will be simply ignored if not supportive and our three new USSC Trump appointees seem quite willing to avoid controversy and will go along with the trashing of the Constitution. The 2Amd will go bye-bye as well as the First and, who knows? the Democrats may decide they need to quarter troops in private homes.


138 posted on 12/26/2020 3:28:45 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe H)
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To: central_va

Like I said, how can we tell?

Think again if the presumption is that I’m going to take CNN exit polls at face value, even for the 2016 election.


139 posted on 12/26/2020 3:28:46 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: KingLudd
Appreciate it...I'm in my eighth decade, and I'll likely be OK. But these millennial's better get their act together or its gonna be tough sledding for them.
140 posted on 12/26/2020 3:30:16 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken )
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