Tag Archives: Texas urban counties

Operation Think Swing Texas

As Emily Cadik noted in a recent Burnt Orange Report article, Texas doesn't vote. For the 2010 mid-term elections, the state of Texas had voter turnout of 36.1 percent... dead last in the nation. 2008 was better at 56.1 percent (as is expected for a Presidential election), but that still only ranked … Continue Reading ››

The ABCs of the GOP: E is for

Extinction

For all of the craziness that has gone on within the national GOP, things have been pretty standard here in Texas. After all this is one constant in the world of American politics... Texas is reliably REPUBLICAN. Now the largest state to carry that title, and certainly the one with the … Continue Reading ››