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2018 Texas Statewide Election Results


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                  R                     D Margin
US Senate Cruz 50.9 O'Rourke 48.3 2.6
Governor Abbot 55.9 Valdez 42.5 13.4
Lt Governor Patrick 51.3 Collier 46.4 4.9
Land Commissioner Bush 53.7 Suazo 43.1 10.6
Agricultural Commissioner Miller 51.3 Olson 46.4 4.9
AG Paxton 50.6 Nelson 47 3.6
Comptroller Hegar 53.2 Chevalier 43.4 9.8
RR Commissioner Craddick 53.2 McAllen 43.9 9.3

 

To me it looks like there is a baseline R advantage of 9-10 points.  The lower profile races were the candidates are not as well known (Land Commissioner, Comptroller, RR Commissioner) all well within a 53-54 to 43-44 band.  Meanwhile, I'd say that people split their ticket to vote for Abbot and obviously O'Rourke and to vote against Patrick (general jackassery), Miller (ethics/buffoonery), and Paxton (indictment).  I know this board hates Cruz but to me the latter three are a bigger embarrassment to the state.  Would they have been vulnerable if the Dems had been able to generate even 10% of the interest/passion in these races that Beto did? 

In 2014, no statewide election was closer than 20 points.  Obviously Trump also deserves a huge amount of credit for closing the gap.

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Trump has accelerated the trend, no doubt about that. Beto also added gasoline to the fire. The contested statewide judicial elections - I believe it was Brisket that correctly pointed out that these are likely the most purely partisan races out there due to most people having basically no clue about the candidates - ranged from 7-9 as well, so I think the partisan lean can be reasonably assessed at 7-10. That is a huge shift in four years. Trump isn't going anywhere for another two years, young and educated out of state folks gonna keep moving here, boomers - particularly rural ones - are going to start dying soon, whitey will only make up less of the electorate going forward... Writing is on the wall.

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When I get some time I want to analyze the county data comparing 2016 and 18.  Not only see turnout percentage but what is happening with total votes and registered counts.  My thought is that the smaller counties are getting smaller while the larger counties are getting larger.  

Im still surprised that Tarrant and Williamson went blue.  What are the largest red cities now?  Plano or Lubbock?

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9 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

When I get some time I want to analyze the county data comparing 2016 and 18.  Not only see turnout percentage but what is happening with total votes and registered counts.  My thought is that the smaller counties are getting smaller while the larger counties are getting larger.  

Im still surprised that Tarrant and Williamson went blue.  What are the largest red cities now?  Plano or Lubbock?

I predicted Williamson and Tarrant would flip due to demographic trends. I had Collin at 52%+R, which was albout right. They are next largest and could flip in 2020. 

Denton and Montgomery are the next 2 of the largest 11 counties. Denton should flip by 2024 possibly sooner, while Montgomery is many years away if ever.

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1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've been looking for a map of how the votes broke for Tx31 between Williamson and Bell counties. My feeling is Hegar won Wilco by a slim margin and lost Bell by a larger margin but haven't been able to confirm

Williamson - Hegar won it 49.86 - 48.26 (102,796 to 99,481)

Bell - Carter won it 56.83 - 41.81 (44,912 to 33,047)

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My estimate ( pre Kavanaugh hearing) was Beto/Hegar winning Wilco by 8000 to 9000, but losing Bell by around 6000.

If Hegar or someone who is an equally good candidate runs in 2020 the demographic shifts should put a Democrat over the top in that district.

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1 hour ago, RayDog said:

I predicted Williamson and Tarrant would flip due to demographic trends. I had Collin at 52%+R, which was albout right. They are next largest and could flip in 2020. 

Denton and Montgomery are the next 2 of the largest 11 counties. Denton should flip by 2024 possibly sooner, while Montgomery is many years away if ever.

I'd be curious how your estimates compared with reality. I know you had Beto winning with the turnout we had. What went differently from your predictions?

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3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I'd be curious how your estimates compared with reality. I know you had Beto winning with the turnout we had. What went differently from your predictions?

Probably that Beto underperformed Hillary in the Valley and Cruz overperformed Trump in the rural counties. 

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3 hours ago, Js1 said:

Probably that Beto underperformed Hillary in the Valley and Cruz overperformed Trump in the rural counties. 

That is what happened. That and Beto generally underperformed on estimates because I based them on presidential years, since I realized 2014 was an even worse comparison 

Cruz basically had 200,000 more rural votes than I expected, and Beto had maybe 150,000 less in the larger counties than I expected. I won't know for sure until I look at the final county by county numbers.

If this same race happens with 2020 demographics in a presidential year, Beto wins. Not that that means anything.

 

 

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Some of these crazies getting they asses beat gives me hope for the Texas House, as enough GOP members are close to consolidating around Dennis Bonnen - a Straus lieutenant.  Anyone whose even partially Straus will keep the crazy out of the House and confined to Dan Patrick's Potty Playpen. of the Senate

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25 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Some of these crazies getting they asses beat gives me hope for the Texas House, as enough GOP members are close to consolidating around Dennis Bonnen - a Straus lieutenant.  Anyone whose even partially Straus will keep the crazy out of the House and confined to Dan Patrick's Potty Playpen. of the Senate

this is excellent news.  I saw Patrick's quote the other day saying Straus "wasn't much of a Republican."  What a piece of shit.

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Some of these crazies getting they asses beat gives me hope for the Texas House, as enough GOP members are close to consolidating around Dennis Bonnen - a Straus lieutenant.  Anyone whose even partially Straus will keep the crazy out of the House and confined to Dan Patrick's Potty Playpen. of the Senate

I don’t know much about Texas politics. Didn’t the tea party rig it to where the democrats no longer have a vote in speaker elections?

would love to see a moderate republican speaker. It would keep us from crazy land.

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I don’t know much about Texas politics. Didn’t the tea party rig it to where the democrats no longer have a vote in speaker elections?

would love to see a moderate republican speaker. It would keep us from crazy land.

 

The Democrats effectively had no say at 95-55. With that margin cut by more than half to 83-67, and many of the casualties being high profile Freedom Caucus types, it basically ensures a moderate speaker. The Strauss wing of the Republican party has the leverage now - they don't have to play ball with the Tea Party because there are enough Democrats for them to form a sort of coalition with for the Speaker position. In that sense, the Democrats are effectively kingmakers due to the friction on the Republican side. With Bonnen getting support, the Tea Party seems to realize this is a fight they can't win.

 

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2 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

this is excellent news.  I saw Patrick's quote the other day saying Straus "wasn't much of a Republican."  What a piece of shit.

That's their standard go to. Don't believe _____ (and that ____ depends on the day and person), then you are just a RINO. Because that's a HUGE insult!

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Straus just released a statement.  He's very please it'll be Bonnen. 

Dems pick up 12 seats AND Straus Lite will be the new Speaker. There's hope.  If the fucking TDP hadn't botched that special election, we'd have broken Dan Patrick's supermajority too.  Oh well.

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2 hours ago, gmr548 said:

 

The Democrats effectively had no say at 95-55. With that margin cut by more than half to 83-67, and many of the casualties being high profile Freedom Caucus types, it basically ensures a moderate speaker. The Strauss wing of the Republican party has the leverage now - they don't have to play ball with the Tea Party because there are enough Democrats for them to form a sort of coalition with for the Speaker position. In that sense, the Democrats are effectively kingmakers due to the friction on the Republican side. With Bonnen getting support, the Tea Party seems to realize this is a fight they can't win.

 

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Good.

 

i hope the new speaker tells potty Patrick to shove that bathroom bill up his giant smelly asshole.

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