Texas US Rep Races: Only Close Race is in District #23, other incumbents reelected
District #23
Will Hurd REP 40,134 51.07%
Pete P. Gallego - Incumbent DEM 36,650 46.64%
Ruben Corvalan LIB 1,794 2.28%
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Race Total 78,578
Precincts Reported 123 of 334 Precincts 36.83%
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Curses! I was hoping that at the very least the cuckoo-egg Farenholt would be sent packing.
This is a bad night. I've hoped for better for nearly 20 years and I see no reason this evening to believe that even a bare majority of Texas voters will turn away from voting stupid. I am beginning to think that so many of my fellow Texans are so addled that nothing, nothing can get them to start voting to protect their own interests.
I'm nearly 60. I feel like one of the post-Reconstruction Texas Republicans of the 1870's. I don't see things getting better in my lifetime, no matter how howling awful the Tea-publicans make this state for non-whites and shirt-sleeve and middle-class Texans.
I've waited in vain for a new generation of progressive voters to arise and put things to rights. I'm increasingly convinced that the younger generations are content to be kicked in the teeth and force-fed ordure from the incumbent political establishment.
In the top four races the GOP candidates received 59%-60% of the vote. There are still some large urban counties that haven't reported, but I don't expect any of the Democratic candidates to get more than 41%-42%. Overall, I'm disgusted and I don't have much faith that things are ever going to get better. It seems like there is about 95% of the people that have already made up their minds and any variation between elections comes down to the remaining 5% and whether they decide to vote.
Texas has 38 electoral votes (36 for the number of congressional districts and 2 at-large). 