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Thank you, Texas! Now let's get back to work to defend jobs, freedom, and security for Texas and America!
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Haven't seen anybody crunch these numbers yet, so here goes — Texas' 191 rural counties contributed 11% of the
#txsen vote; non-rural counties made up the remaining 89%. In rural counties,@TedCruz defeated@BetoORourke 75% to 24%. In non-rural counties, O'Rourke beat Cruz 51-48.Show this thread -
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#TXSen this year, Beto O'Rourke (blue) got 148K more votes than Hillary Clinton (red). Something of a function of population, but his best gain was in Travis County (Austin), where he got 49K more votes. His biggest drop was 14.5K votes in Hidalgo County (McAllen).#txlegepic.twitter.com/oubR2fndy6 -
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Verified account@BetoORourke Running to represent everyone in Texas in the United States Senate. Powered by people, not PACs.
Verified account@tedcruz Father of two,
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How votes in counties shifted in our US congressional district, comparing
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How Beto O'Rourke's vote share compares with that of Wendy Davis & Hillary Clinton. O'Rourke more than 10 points higher than Davis in the big counties, but also 4 points higher in the smaller counties.
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Beto O'Rourke was the first Democrat for Senate to win Tarrant County, TX (Ft. Worth) since Lloyd Bentsen. No Democrat for President has won it since Johnson. Tarrant is a microcosm of suburban Texas's Trump revolt. Precinct returns for 2012, 2016, and 2018 below.
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A tale of two Texases: Nearly 8 in 10 Texas voters live in the 30 largest counties. Beto O'Rourke got 54.1% of the vote there. In the other 224 Texas counties, he got 26.6%.
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@BetoORourke may have lost, but tonight Texas Democrats gained... - two U.S. House seats - two state Senate seats - at least 11 state House seats#txsen#txlege -
Of course, the corollary to all this is not only are the big 30 counties trending Democratic, they are massively adding voters, increasing their share of the Texas electorate.
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Cruz winning narrowly right now 50-49 with 75% in.
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O'Rourke tended to exceed Clinton's margins more in counties with higher levels of education (r^2 = .197) and income (r^2 = .085). Some of his strongest gains were in suburban counties outside Austin (Hays & Williamson) and Dallas (Denton & Collin).
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O'Rourke tended to outperform Clinton the least in counties with a large share of Hispanics, many of them in the Rio Grande valley. However, this may have been more because of Cruz than O'Rourke - in 2012 Cruz outperformed Romney the most in heavily Hispanic counties.
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Texas Senate candidate
@BetoORourke walked with his family from their Sunset Heights home to the polling station at the El Paso Community College Rio Grande Campus.#TXSen#BetoForSenate#BetoForTexaspic.twitter.com/h3RN5VbOxQ -
Ted Cruz and
@BetoORourke entered Congress the same year. Both sat on military committees in their respective chambers. While Cruz blew off his job, O'Rourke passed bills expanding veteran mental health care and apprenticeship programs. The contrast could not be clearer.#TXSen -
A look at Democratic vote share in Texas since 2010. In the big 30 counties, a decisive move toward Ds over the last couple of cycles. In the rest of the state, Bill White was the high point, though O'Rourke claws back from D lows of 2014 and 2016.
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“Don’t California my Texas” they said...
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#TXSen Twitter feed is flooded right now with thousands of bots sending out the same video from the Cruz campaign. Guess buying fake Twitter supporters is the best Cruz can do to seem popular? pic.twitter.com/gSfUFblpOF -
Panoramic view of
@tedcruz turnout at First Baptist Church of Pearland, a half hour from downtown Houston on eve of Election Day.#TXSen pic.twitter.com/VWfdbTut4UShow this thread -
Political realignment, Texas style: O'Rourke's
#TXSEN county margins more closely mirrored those of Clinton 2016 (r^2 = .976) than Obama 2012 (r^2 = .926). pic.twitter.com/FOdpeZlSTCShow this thread
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