The reason Greg Abbott won Texas governor by a 21% margin

[Stringbean]

Evidently The Democratic candidate won 61% of the Hispanic vote 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.

[John_Mace]

@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 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!

[Chronos]

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.

[RTFirefly]

@yellowjacketcoder

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?