Posted on 02/15/2014 9:29:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Wendy Davis told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper on Wednesday that “Texas is not really a red state, it's just a non-voting state.”
Sure Wendy, sure.
Well, she is right about Texas being a non-voting state. Texas is one of the worst performers when it comes to voter turnout. In 2010, just 36.4 percent of registered voters actually voted, making it the worst state for turnout. In 2012, Texas ranked 48th in voter turnout, according to a report from the University of Texas at Austin.
In fact, Texas has had lower voter turnout rates than the national average since 1972.
But does that also mean the state isn’t red?
Maybe. Around 1980 – eight years after Texas’ turnout rate dropped below the national average – Texas became a pretty deep red.
Since 1979, two out of the state's five governors have been Democrats. But before 1979, all but five of the governors were Democrats – although Democrats of yore are not the Democrats of today. (Also there was one member of the Unionist party and one independent governor.)
Most governors only served one term, except for long-term Gov. Rick Perry, who’s been in charge of the state since 2000 and is relinquishing control rather than running for a fourth term. (Texas has no gubernatorial term limits.)
Presidential elections are a different story. Texas has voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election since 1980. And other than the Clinton elections, Republicans won by no small majority.
President George W. Bush, who served as Texas' governor, won the state in 2004 with 61 percent of the vote, compared to then-Sen. John Kerry’s 38 percent.
Mitt Romney won the state in 2012 with 57 percent of the vote, compared to President Obama’s 41 percent.
So while Texas may be a “non-voting” state, it’s a stretch to say that it's not a red state.
Politicians, Texans just aren’t that much into you.
That’s right because RED is the color of Socialist revolutionaries.
The naming of states by color ONLY began after the MSM (in collusion with the DNC?) changed the color conventions.
TRUE BLUE had previously been the color of GOP victories.
FUAB
Wendy, you’re about to be crushed, losing by perhaps as much as 16%. Texas will reject your baby murdering, flip-flopping, resume-lying, campaign and send you spiraling back into obscurity.
I think Windy means it’s not a hammer and sickle Red state.
President George W. Bush, who served as Texas' governor, won the state in 2004 with 61 percent of the vote, compared to then-Sen. John Kerry’s 38 percent.
Bush won two terms. He didn't serve out his second term.
said the not really real blond... 
Wendy Davis stands a better shot at winning more voted for the office than Houston’s two Democrat mayors did (they didn’t have statewide name recognition):
2006
Perry carried 209 out of 254 counties, while Bell carried 39 and Strayhorn carried 6 counties.
Chris Bell was the lame duck congressman who level an ethics charge against Tom DeLay when the racist Bell lost his seat to a black Democrat due to redistricting.
2002
Republican Rick Perry 1,716,803 39.03 -18.78
Democratic Chris Bell 1,310,353 29.79 -10.17
Independent Carole Keeton Strayhorn 797,577 18.13
Independent Richard “Kinky” Friedman 546,869 12.43
Libertarian James Werner 26,748 0.61 -0.86
Independent James “Patriot” Dillon 718 0.02
Majority 406,450 9.24
Turnout 4,399,068
Kinky siphoned votes from Rick Perry (not that he needed them to win). A bunch of Democrats and former Democrats and undisclosed Democrats all running for the same office in a partisan race (Kinky is running as a Democrat for Ag Commish this year). Perry himself is a former Dem.
2010
Republican Rick Perry (Incumbent) 2,733,784 54.97 +15.95
Democratic Bill White 2,102,606 42.28 +12.50
Libertarian Kathie Glass 109,057 2.19
Green Deb Shafto 19,475 0.39
Independent Andy Barron (Write-In) 7,973 0.16
And I was in error, Chris Bell didn’t win mayor (he ran for it). He lost mayor, Congress, and the governor’s elections.
3 time loser and career politician.
Liberals in Austin have wet dreams about turning Texas into a Democrat run state.
Ask them if they plan to add an income tax if they do win.
That 02 race had some really big independent numbers.
Cindy Strayhorn was a former Dem, Kinky was an undisclosed Dem, etc.
Some “independence”.
The illusion of choice.
I don’t fix em I just drive em.....
Interesting pic, a bit less Photoshopped than a lot I’ve seen.
She looks more like 50 yrs old and less like Miss America.
I think that you will find that the more solid a state is (Democrat or Republican), the lower the voter turn out will be. Its the close states that get the higher turn out.
Uh, GUILTY!
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