Some random observations about the TX county Presidential election results

[last_texas_dem]

Checking out how the different counties voted this year, I noticed a few interesting (well, to me anyway... haha) things.

1. When the Texas socialist uprising comes, it will start in Franklin County.

I couldn't tell you much of anything about Franklin County, TX. I do have some extendedfamily that live in Winnsboro that I've always figured to be typical right-wing, rural Texans. But I'm quite intrigued to see that Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore received 7 of his 49 total votes in Franklin County. One-seventh of TX's Socialist voters are holed up in little Franklin County? (Meanwhile, in Travis, the most "pinko" county we have, Moore received 0 votes.) Was this a ballot screw-up? Or has an underground movement begun to build a socialist utopia in northeast Texas? We may never know...

http://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov04_141_county79.htm

2. I should probably never get out of the car in King County.

So there's this county in West TX that doesn't have many people and votes heavily Republican. That could apply to most of them. Only King County is really doesn't have many people (around 400) and really likes their Republicans. In fact, of their 164 voters, 151 voted for McCain and only 8 voted for Obama- 92% to 5%. Only 8 Obama voters in the whole county? I wonder if they make them wear a scarlet letter "O"?

http://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov04_141_county134.htm

3. Maverick County missed their opportunity to vote for the "team of Mavericks."

Pretty substantially, in fact... Obama-Biden won the county 78%-19% vs. those two mavericks. I guess they know real mavericks from bullshit mavericks out there!


http://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov04_141_county158.htm

[cosmik debris]

1. That's interesting and amusing

Thanks for posting.

[sonias]

2. Maverick county voted for the real maverick - Obama

Not the phony ones. By the way for those who don't know where Maverick county is - Eagle Pass is the county seat. It's Democratic country!

:kick:


Sonia