I just was alarmed with noting that Trump failed to increase his % performance over Willard in 33 out of 35 TX CDs. I found it to be an astonishing fact, given the opposition and contrasting that with other GOP states. Hopefully this will just be a one-off and 2020 will see Trump break through 60% there.
Shilly’s total vote share in TX was 43.24%, less than a couple points ahead of Obama’s 2012 41.35% and UNDER his 2008 share of 43.63% (and under Bill Clinton’s 1996 % and Dukakis’s too), while uncool that’s hardly super frightening. The other half of the equation as Auh mentioned is the increased third party vote.
I calculated and posted the 2-party vote share cause I thought that was useful data but the only states where Obama didn’t get a higher total % than Shilly in either 2008 or 2012 or both were, CA and
let’s see, not AZ, bammy got higher in 2008, not GA, Bammy got higher BOTH times, not UT, Bammy got higher in 08. Hell I think CA, TX, AZ, UT are the only ones where she exceeded his 2012 %, even considering that she lost votes to Stein and in some states, Bernie write ins, that’s not impressive. As totally uncool as some county (and CD) results were, on the state level, not impressive.