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Sweet Freedom

(3,995 posts) Wed Nov 5, 2014, 02:09 PM Nov 2014

Ten fewer counties went to Davis in 2014 than to White in 2010

Harris is red??!

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/11/05/interactive-compare-governors-race-2010-2014/

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Ten fewer counties went to Davis in 2014 than to White in 2010 (Original Post) Sweet Freedom Nov 2014 OP

I cannot believe Harris County and Bexar County voted for Abbott??????????? northoftheborder Nov 2014 #1

I know!!! Sweet Freedom Nov 2014 #2

It was a swing of a few points Rstrstx Nov 2014 #4

Thanks, I can't help being dejected and dispirited. Especially for Letitia in areas I thought she northoftheborder Nov 2014 #5

I suspect it's not 100% red as that map depicts. kentauros Nov 2014 #3

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)

1. I cannot believe Harris County and Bexar County voted for Abbott???????????

Reply to Sweet Freedom (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 02:14 PM

Nov 2014

Sweet Freedom

(3,995 posts)

2. I know!!!

Reply to northoftheborder (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 04:31 PM

Nov 2014

Rstrstx

(1,399 posts)

4. It was a swing of a few points

Reply to northoftheborder (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 02:24 PM

Nov 2014

I do know Bexar went for Van de Putte. The biggest problem for Bexar County are a bunch of Republican judges that just barely squeaked by. I suspect they'll get voted out again in 2016 but still.

Some counties were funny: many counties that went for Obama in '12 went for Davis by similar margins but down here in Cameron County she only won by 12 points, while Obama carried the county by nearly 30 points in 2012.

The election must have been disheartening for Battleground Texas as their efforts seem to have had little effect on the election. I know it's a long term effort and I guess we shouldn't be too dejected in a year when a Republican candidate for governor won Maryland by 10 points. Short of splitting the state in half this is gonna take a long time.

northoftheborder

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5. Thanks, I can't help being dejected and dispirited. Especially for Letitia in areas I thought she

Reply to Rstrstx (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 02:49 PM

Nov 2014

would have won by a larger margin. Overall, I agree with so many who think the Democratic Party needs to figure out who it really is and thunder those ideas to the farthest reaches of this nation. It is populist, liberal, forward thinking. Merely being anti-Republican is not enough; neither is appealing to "business interests".

kentauros

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3. I suspect it's not 100% red as that map depicts.

Reply to Sweet Freedom (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 05:28 PM

Nov 2014

It would be nicer to see the counties in shades of red to purple to blue, per the percentages of each party's votes. Showing a "winner takes all" solid shading tells me nothing.

Even better would be subdividing each county into precincts, since they went to the trouble of making it "interactive." The difference between Abbott's percentage and Davis' for Harris Co. is almost within the margin of error (4.3 % difference.)

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