Posted on 11/14/2014 10:47:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Democratic dream of “turning Texas blue” dissolved on Nov. 4. The left had elevated Wendy Davis, an obscure state senator, to superstar status after she delivered an emotional 11-hour panegyric to abortion. She was expected to ride her celebrity status and the “war on women” into the executive mansion in Austin. She had only to defeat a Republican white man. It didn’t quite work out that way, drawing just 38.9 percent of the vote.
From the top of the ballot on down, the wreckage from the Democratic effort was strewn across the state from Texarkana westward to El Paso. Mrs. Davis carried only 18 of 254 counties, 10 fewer than the party’s gubernatorial candidate four years ago.
The far-left Mother Jones magazine lamented that “the Lone Star State just got even redder.” Mrs. Davis couldn’t even turn Texas pink, to say nothing of purple or blue, despite fawning local and national coverage of her every word. To rub salt into the wound, the state Senate seat from Fort Worth that Mrs. Davis gave up to run for governor was captured by Konni Burton, a pro-life, Tea Party Republican woman.
Gov.-elect Greg Abbott won 52 percent of the women’s vote, including 67 percent of the white women’s vote. The latter statistic set off a Twitter howl among disappointed liberals, who called the white women “Stepford wives” and attributed their choice to “self-hatred and loathing.”(continued)
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Can she just abort herself already?
Wendy never stood a chance.
It was a vanity campaign from the start.
Wendy and Sandy Fluke both lost by 21 points.
Coincidence?
Has she started yet at MSNBC? She’s ready for her close-up, Mr. DeMille.
Eat more Horse!
Maybe she will have more luck as a blog pimp.
Texas went solid red in 1980 when it voted for RR.
Dems rarely win anything statewide in Texas ever since.
Where is Wendy these days? Is she showing up on any of the cable channels?
BWAHAHAHahahahahaha!
I believe all Texas state-wide elections were won by Republicans by double-digit percentages this time.
Poor Sandy, she p*ssed away 600 grand of her in-laws dough on a vanity campaign and lost to another Democrat who spent even more. Should be a fun Thanksgiving at the Mutterperl household.
For a while, I was concerned that the growing Hispanic population in Texas would turn the state purple and eventually blue.
However, Hispanics in Texas are considerably more conservative then they are here in CA. I believe Gov.-elect Abbott won about 45% of the Hispanic vote in TX.
Here in CA, the GOP is usually gets about 20-25% in statewide contests.
Keeping Democrats under 40%
Texas rocks like that sometimes
It was fun to go to the DUmp on Election Night and see the “Wendy Will Win!” threads turn into profane wails of disbelief.
didn’t reach 40%
bless their hearts
lol
A couple of points along the border, Austin and San Antonio and inner cities, is where the dems have some standing other than that Texas is pretty red!!
As Abortion Barbie found out, A large percentage of Hispanics hold to Catholic beliefs.
Cecilia Abbott, being the granddaughter of immigrants from Mexico didn’t hurt either.
Sadly too many parts of Houston, El Paso and Dallas as well. Typical leaning of bigger cities.
http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/house/texas/#.VGZWW_nF98E
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