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Why Democrats Swept Harris County

Posted on November 11th, 2008 11:37am by Wick Allison
Filed under Politics

Over at National Review, David Frum has running blog posts with contributions from readers on why the GOP lost Houston. You’ll have to scroll through various items to catch all the posts, but for political junkies it’s worth it.

6 Comments to “Why Democrats Swept Harris County”

columbiasooner @ November 11th, 2008 at 11:51 am

One note: The GOP did retain the County Judge seat.
A.B. @ November 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Of all the judge races in the county, only four were won by Democrats. What makes it interesting is that the four democrats that lost had first or last names of Mahendru, Mekisha, Pereira and Goodwille. They all lost to Republicans with “normal” names. http://tinyurl.com/5h67c4
A.B. @ November 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

In my comment above, I meant to say only four were won by Republicans. A sick infant at home means WAY to little sleep…
columbiasooner @ November 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Ed Emmett beat Democrat David Mincberg.
Dave Thomas @ November 11th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Look at the map of Texas based on the Presidential vote. You’ll see that Dallas, Travis, Bexar, and Harris all went for Obama.

The Texas GOP is having the same problem as the national GOP: it’s becoming a rural party. It has failed to convince voters in the big cities that less government is a good idea. It’s very hard to sell that message to anyone when the president and presidential candidate from your party support a bailout plan that makes the government much bigger.

The good news: the GOP has the chance to wipe the slate clean and start the rebuilding from scratch.
Charlie Domino @ November 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

The GOP’s top-ticket candidates, except for Emmett, were terrible. Sheriff Thomas acted like he was exempt from the Texas Public Information Act, the incumbent DA was forced to resign in a scandal prior to the election (discrediting many others), and the county GOP, as was pointed out on David’s blog, stunk on ice. It has for several years now.

I don’t think the GOP is so much rural as it has just conceded the cities. Well, I belong to a growing group of people that have conceded the GOP. Let the evangelicals, porkmeisters, and big-statists have it.

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