Texas is no longer a Republican state according to Gallup Poll

[sonias]

Read No More's Daily Kos Diary 1/28/09
Gallup Poll: Only 5 Republican states in USA
According to the Gallup poll out today, only these 5 states have a statistically significant majority who self-identify as Republicans. Stunning, just stunning. As a former Republican myself, I could certainly see this coming as every rational, intelligent and moral person was pretty much driven screaming from the party.

And guess what Texas is not one of the five. In fact we're not even in the top 10 Republican leaning states!
:wow:

Here are the top 10 R states:
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
Alaska
Nebraska
Kansas
Alabama
Arizona
South Carolina
(3 tied for last slot)
South Dakota
Mississippi
North Dakota

According to Gallup, Texas is competitive and actually leans Democratic.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114016/State-States-Political-Party-Affiliation.aspx">Texas Party Affiliation
D=43.4
R=41
D advantage= +2

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:


Now if Texas would only vote that way. Much work still to do. :eyes:


Sonia

[tbyg52]

1. Hooray! Hope it shows up in 2010. nt

[sonias]

2. Me too!

What's really interesting is how many interviews they did in Texas - 19,415. That was on the second page of the Gallup Poll. So it's not a small sample like most polls are.

Keep on turning blue, Texas!


Sonia

[WolverineDG]

3. Now if we could get all those good Dems to

VOTE DAMMIT!!

:hi:

dg

[kentauros]

4. Woo Hoo!!!

Now if only I can get the Texas-bashers on the following thread to learn something for once:

Texas republicans assail Obama stimulus plan

Do you think you could post this in LBN? We could use some positive news and reinforcement over there. :)

[sonias]

5. Go for it kentauros

I hardly venture above ground of the real DU underground. I'm more comfortable in the underbelly - the Texas borough.

Plus I don't think many of those above ground DUers (most of which hate Texas anyway) would give a hoot. Too much Texas bashing for my tastes.

case in point post #18 from your thread link:

Nothing good ever comes from Texas. The state is the asshole of the country.

:-(

Sonia

[kentauros]

6. Well, I do what I can to counter them.

A few others are there doing the same.

LBN isn't always as bad as GD and it's evil twin, I guess because it sticks to the news and only the latest.

I'll try posting your link/story and see what happens, though ;)

[kentauros]

7. The LBN rules don't allow links to polls

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=102

Still, it's a site I'm bookmarking and will use as a means to back myself up every time the haters make their posts :D

[tbyg52]

9. I get really sick of that

and I think it's pretty much as bad as racism or homophobia, I really do. They are all forms of generalization, without an ounce of application to any *individual*. Yet many here think it's OK to paint all Texans with the same brush.

[sonias]

8. Related NYTimes piece

NY Times 1/27/09
Statehouse Journal
Texas Rebellion Gives a Centrist a Lift

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: January 27, 2009

AUSTIN, Tex. — On first blush, it is easy to think the Democratic tide that swept President Obama into office barely touched Texas. After all, Republicans still run the state and hold all the top offices and, if Texas voters had had their way, John McCain would be in the Oval Office.

(snip)
When the Republicans nearly lost their majority in the Texas House in November, a small group of moderates from the party joined with Democrats to oust the archconservative speaker, Thomas Craddick of Midland.

Even more surprising, the Republican rebels engineered the election of Joe Straus, a decidedly centrist politician from San Antonio, to the speaker’s office, making a junior lawmaker with not quite two terms under his belt one of the most powerful people in the state.

The rise of Mr. Straus, a fiscal conservative who has not toed the conservative line on issues like abortion and gay rights, was widely seen as a defeat for the socially conservative wing of the party.

"The Republican Party is moving a little bit more toward the center," said James Henson of the political science department at the University of Texas, Austin. "I think what we have is a much more competitive state than it looks like on a statewide level."

:kick:

Tips to State of Mine blog and David Mauro from BOR who posted it also.

Sonia

[Bunkie0913]

10. Where is OK?

Hard to believe Oklahoma didn't make the top of that list, all 77 counties voted for McLame. IIRC, it is the only state in the nation that went entirely to the GOP. We have a DEM Gov and 1 Blue Dog DEM Rep, Dan Boren (who is GOP in costume). Both Senators (Inhofe-PUKE&Coburn-BILE)and the other 4 Rep's are all GOP. I often feel like the only Progressive in the state!

[sonias]

11. You're better off than Texas supposedly

Oklahoma
47.5 D
41.9 R
+6 D advantage
5,027 interviews

Your state like ours needs more party re-building and better candidates.

Sonia

[Sailing]

12. Not a chance

I lived in Oklahoma for many years. Austin is paradise to me compared to OK City. Oklahoma, Blahh, yuk.

[sonias]

13. Poll: Texas tips to political middle

AAS 2/1/09
Poll: Texas tips to political middle

Their presidential candidates don't even try to win here, and they haven't won a statewide election since 1994, but newly released poll findings say Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans in Texas.

The Gallup polling organization says that, based on its daily tracking polls during the 2008 election, 43 percent of Texans say they're Democrats or lean Democratic, compared with 41 percent who say they're Republicans or lean Republican.

The polls measure attitudes among all adults, not just those who are registered, or likely, to vote.

"I don't believe it for a minute," said Cal Jillson , a political science professor at Southern Methodist University.
(div)
It is true that Texas is moving slowly back into a competitive two-party status," Jillson said. "But I think this is still a decade away in terms of voting statewide."

:shrug:


Sonia

[EndersDame]

14. Even in Waco well the shit area north of Waco, Bellmead

where there is Jesus on every corner and meth in every bathtub
and still I see lots of Obama bumperstickers in the HEB parking lot but dot get me wrong for the most part there are some real crazies.My land lady thinks that Obama is literally the Anti Christ I haved move from Austin and am losing my mind!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. I feel your pain!!!

I moved from Houston (lived in Houston all my life except for 3 years in college in S.A.) to Deep East Texas recently.

I have to drive 15 miles just to buy groceries. I'm 60 miles from anything resembling civilization (i.e.other than Wallyworld) and 140 miles from Houston or Dallas.

I don't do football or church, so I'm a social outcast.

[sonias]

17. Yep, no church or sports in East Texas

They might be thinking about you as Satan about now. Good luck out there.

:grouphug:


sonia

[EndersDame]

19. My landlady believes that my better half and I have good hearts but

our education clouds our minds. Seriously you cant make this shit up

[sonias]

20. Education clouds your mind!

No lack of education is what "clouds your mind". Your landlady may have a good heart but her lack of deep intelligent thought is what makes her rely on religious "magic" to explain the world.

You're right you can't make this shit up!

:crazy:

Sonia

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. Yeah lots of people have invited me to church.

I decline. I tell them I'm a Unitarian and we don't have any UU churches nearby.

They look shocked.

[sonias]

16. "Jesus on every corner and meth in every bathtub"

I think you have a bumper sticker winner!!!

I'm sorry you live in the Texas waste land now. Try to meet some sane people - you know where to start. Those people with Obama stickers on their cars in the H.E.B. parking lot.

:hug:


Sonia

[X_Digger]

18. W00t!! n/t

[steelmania75]

21. The Plan to win Texas in 2012

It's a start for the Dems in Texas.

We need to get places like El Paso, Austin, and South Texas more registered Dem voters. Then we need to have the convention in Dallas, so that way we'll win the Dallas Metro Area in 2012. Then we need Obama to campaign in San Antonio and Houston. If all goes according to plan, we'll win Texas by a good margin in 2012.

[Melissa G]

23. We need to get rid of electronic voting machines

Then we might have more hope of taking the elections in 2010 and 12. Having a repub SOS and no auditable paper trail is a big part of the problem.

[sonias]

24. Kos Diary - Republican trending states (not TX!)

Republican Trending States -Daily Kos 2/12/09
Only three states trended Republican, here they are with McCain's margin of victory:

              2004  2008  GOP gain
Arkansas:      +11   +20   +9
Louisiana:     +15   +19   +4
Tennessee:     +14   +15   +1

Two more tread water:
Oklahoma:      +32   +32    0
West Virginia: +13   +13    0

:dem:
Sonia

[steelmania75]

25. I don't understand Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and West Virginia

All these states have more registered Democrats then Republicans by a long shot, yet they're EXTREMELY Republican when it comes to elections. We need to get the 50 state strategy over in the Deep South so the Dems can have a chance at winning those states in 2012.