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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

They made the pattern of how, time to master it and blow D’s out of the water in every race. You aren’t trying if you ain’t cheating.


161 posted on 12/26/2020 3:47:46 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: b4me

I agree.


162 posted on 12/26/2020 3:48:12 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

Republicans will never win another election, period.

After Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio and the resat of the Bush League Republicans gives the Democrats 30+ million new voters with amnesty, elections become meaningless.


163 posted on 12/26/2020 3:49:50 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

They can turn any state blue. They can buy Republicans and elect them and call them red but control them.

It’s all a farce until Trump beats them.


164 posted on 12/26/2020 3:50:00 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Donald J. Trump is the rightful President of the USA and his own party won't admit that.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ok you dispute the 28% Hispanic for Republicans. What is it then, hmmmm???? Give me a percent and a reason for your estimation. Shut up or put up.


165 posted on 12/26/2020 3:50:43 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Regulator

So they chose Trump in 2016? Really?


166 posted on 12/26/2020 3:51:18 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Hojczyk

If something isn’t done about this election, no republican will ever win the White House again.

This republic is done.


167 posted on 12/26/2020 3:51:23 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: metmom

The republic died at the Appomattox Va. CH. It took this long for the corpse to stop breathing....


168 posted on 12/26/2020 3:53:44 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

You continue to ignore my main point: So-called stats measured through fraud are tainted by design. Your repeat of ad hominem and ad lapidem (abd dogged clinging to left-wing sources, hence repeat of ad verecundiam) suggests you favor outcomes benefiting the Uniparty. I’m sorry to see that you prefer a narrative to the truth, so have a nice Boxing Day . . .


169 posted on 12/26/2020 4:11:14 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: Brilliant

What do you mean after they bankrupt the country?

To be honest, after the way the republicans treated Trump, why the hell vote for them? There is no difference between these partiys of crooks.


170 posted on 12/26/2020 4:12:39 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: Kazan
Left out of the discussion is that Trump got the highest percentage of the vote in New York for any Republican since Reagan.

Nope. Trump got 37% in 2020. Bush got 40% in 2004.
171 posted on 12/26/2020 4:15:13 PM PST by pstwwl
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To: Al B.

There has been a trend toward home schooling out here and in other rural areas for about 25 years-ever since the natural living/preppers/off griders like me and a lot of neighbors started including people with young kids-last year, the school bus only picked up one kid on this road-a high school senior-the plandemic finished the bus route, since the kids have continued top be home schooled even though the schools re-opened in September, enrollment is way down and still dropping as more parents form co-ops for home learning, etc.

Home schooling-aka as really learning history, math, English,-is good for trending kids toward conservative values-and away from useless virtue signalling crap-I hope it is happening all over the state...


172 posted on 12/26/2020 4:21:31 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: Olog-hai
Let me help you. Here is a template:

"I dispute the 28% Hispanic support for R's in exit polling. I think exit polls are wrong and Hispanic support is more like < insert percentage here >. The reason why I think this is because < insert reason(s) for questioning the exit polls and post sources if available here >."

173 posted on 12/26/2020 4:22:01 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hojczyk

The Republican Party will not exist in four years.


174 posted on 12/26/2020 4:22:22 PM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: Hojczyk

Texas is still RED - and Republicans can’t win it!

What, at this point, does it matter???

We are done with free elections here anymore.


175 posted on 12/26/2020 4:25:12 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

That is defeatism.


176 posted on 12/26/2020 4:27:20 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Hambone 1934

Republicans keep pretending that if they try hard enough, blacks and Hispanics will turn Republican. It’s absurd. Yes, Trump increased the number of minorities voting Republican, but still the overwhelming numbers go Democrat. Now, besides blacks and Hispanics, we have Asians (particularly Indians) who vote 2 to 1 for the Democrats.
Whites are being marginalized and attacked, and eventually whites in the US may face what whites in South Africa are facing.


177 posted on 12/26/2020 4:32:04 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it." ~ Mencken)
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To: Hojczyk

Sidney Powell said it is a lie that USA voters are trending blue. Just their machines arem


178 posted on 12/26/2020 4:37:11 PM PST by MNDude
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To: central_va
"Try to educate yourself because you are embarrassing FR. Secession of the Southern States: Causes & Timeline The causes my vary a little but the timeline would be about the same. "

You are the one embarrassing yourself. This is not 1860.

179 posted on 12/26/2020 4:48:57 PM PST by precisionshootist (uic)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Most immigrants came over to get away from stifling gov’t. and crappy lifestyle....They get it here from the dem party and they could switch real easy.... Hispanics and Asians in California showed us that they don’t always like dem programs....Both groups voted down affirmative action for blacks...


180 posted on 12/26/2020 4:50:43 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (We all know President Trump....A fighter to the end......)
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