# The reason Greg Abbott won Texas governor by a 21% margin **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reason-greg-abbott-won-texas-governor-by-a-21-margin/703935 "2014-11-06T22:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reason-greg-abbott-won-texas-governor-by-a-21-margin/703935/21 "2015-02-13T23:56:26Z")
Evidently The Democratic candidate won [61% of the Hispanic vote](http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/130.pdf) in 2010. So while not monumental, Greg Abbott got a higher percentage than Perry in 2010. The data from 2006 is difficult to interpret since there were two prominent independent candidates who garnered 27% of the total vote. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reason-greg-abbott-won-texas-governor-by-a-21-margin/703935/22 "2015-02-14T16:47:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The _best_ campaign ad I ever saw was one by Jerry Brown, when he won the governorship of California recently. All he did was show a clip from his opponent saying something like “When I came to California, it was a land of opportunity”, or something like that, and then pointed out that when his opponent came to California, Brown was governor. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > Even sight unseen, that’s fucking _brilliant._ > > I’ll have to dig that up on YouTube sometime - I’m sure it’s there. (I’d do it now, but I can’t view stuff on YouTube from work.) > [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZYp5-Pk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZYp5-Pk) There you go. Actually, I would say it was incredibly stupid of Meg Whitman to release that ad without realizing the implication. But yeah, good catch by Brown and crew! And with Peter Coyote narrating, it sounds like a PBS documentary! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reason-greg-abbott-won-texas-governor-by-a-21-margin/703935/23 "2015-02-14T17:03:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **BrainGlutton** : > > Perhaps because Texas is sui generis, being the reddest of all red states, or nearly so. Not even close. In 2012, for instance, Texas went for Romney 57-41. But Utah was 73-25, Wyoming was 69-28, Oklahoma was 67-33, Idaho was 65-33, and Nebraska was 61-38. Also redder than Texas were both Dakotas, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Being the 15th-reddest state out of 50 is hardly “the reddest of all red states”, nor is having a R-D gap a third the size of the true reddest state “nearly so”. Texas’s significance is merely that, of the reliably red states, it’s the largest. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reason-greg-abbott-won-texas-governor-by-a-21-margin/703935/24 "2015-02-14T19:03:05Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZYp5-Pk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZYp5-Pk) There you go. Thanks muchly! And boy howdy, they took full advantage of that gift in that commercial. Can’t remember when’s the last time I was so impressed by a Dem ad. > [@Chronos](#): > > Not even close. In 2012, for instance, Texas went for Romney 57-41. But Utah was 73-25, Wyoming was 69-28, Oklahoma was 67-33, Idaho was 65-33, and Nebraska was 61-38. Also redder than Texas were both Dakotas, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Being the 15th-reddest state out of 50 is hardly “the reddest of all red states”, nor is having a R-D gap a third the size of the true reddest state “nearly so”. Texas’s significance is merely that, of the reliably red states, it’s the largest. You’ve got a lot of nerve, bringing _facts_ into this discussion. What do you think this is, the Straight Dope or something? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reason-greg-abbott-won-texas-governor-by-a-21-margin/703935.md?page=1)