Actually, if you look at the stats you linked to, straight party votes accounted for only 48.19% of the total vote. Of that, 64.42% was Democratic straight ticket, making the straight ticket Democrat vote 31.04% of the total vote in Travis County.atxgun wrote:We got slaughtered in Travis county. Pretty much a 2/3 straight party democratic vote. I was surprised Baldwin didn't do better here though.
We had a lot of really good liberty minded paleo-con republicans running. Mellissa Goodwin for Judge. Don Zimmerman for tax assessor, who wanted to make the office more of a tax payer advocacy resource. Raymond Frank for sheriff who was against tasers due to their excessive use and resulting deaths, against the vampire cops, and was looking drastically reduce the massive budget required my decriminalizing some non violent drug offenses. Gerald Daugherty for county commissioner who had a hard time getting anything conservative passed so he at least gave himself a 10% pay cut.
Oh but Lamar Smith, the Rhino that loves voting for bailouts got 70% as he was only against a libertarian.
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- Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:33 am
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Re: Do you regret your vote for President?
How did this get posted in General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion? Seems like "Off Topic" would be a more appropriate place.
I reserve the right to keep my ballot secret. I will, however say that I was disappointed in my options. I voted for the best choice, in my opinion.
My bigger focus was really on local, county, Federal legislative, and state positions. Presidential races pretty much eclipse all other races as far as campaigning and media coverage is concerned, so it requires extra effort to make an informed choice.
I reserve the right to keep my ballot secret. I will, however say that I was disappointed in my options. I voted for the best choice, in my opinion.
My bigger focus was really on local, county, Federal legislative, and state positions. Presidential races pretty much eclipse all other races as far as campaigning and media coverage is concerned, so it requires extra effort to make an informed choice.