Tarrant County May Point to Texas' Political Future
For the second presidential election in a row, Tarrant County can stake a claim as a microcosm of the state of Texas.
Last month, the percentage of Tarrant voters who backed Mitt Romney over President Obama (57.1 percent to 41.4 percent) mirrored the results in that race statewide (57.2 percent to 41.4 percent). Tarrant did the same trick in 2008, when it went 55.4 percent for John McCain to 43.7 percent for Obama. Overall in Texas, 55.5 percent voted for McCain and 43.7 percent for Obama.
The results add credence to the ...
Comments (5)
gypsy314 ne
Many reasons cindy wendy is taking her seat Illegal aliens voting for her and hacker program flip poll results. Mark is the winner and democrats may have lied and cheated there way to take this seat for now.
Frank Lee
Texas will remain conservative for the foreseeable future.
If Dems return to conservative platform they may get more votes.
W Joe Deshotel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Im still skeptical because Texas has 254 counties and most are far from Urban. The numbers may break the same in Tarrant but that's one county within one media market that has a ground infrastructure in place. I don't think for instance running Davis or Castro with money will overcome the other deficiencies we have statewide.
James W. Adams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Its all those people moving from NYC and San Francisco Bay Area. Devoted liberals everyone of them. The areas where they live supports every ballot issue advocating tax increase, increased entitlements and other disastrous economic policy. The people moving to Texas now are the holdouts. They believe in the liberals policys and blame the economic failures of CA and NY on Republicans. Unfortunately, my subdivision and seen more than it's share of this people moving in. North Ft Worth is overrun with them. And judging by the policy shifts going on in Ft Worth, it's demise is looming.
Mike Workman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good story!
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