The Texas gubernatorial election (1952-2022)

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[@theclaw8299]

I still laugh my ass off over o'rourke...he really tried going out to campaign against Cruz for a senate seat, tried running a 2020 presidential campaign...and tried to challenge Greg Abbott in the governor's race...and lost all 3 ...I have to admit he's ambitious 😂

[@leoissomething6603]

well it's thanks to him that people realized Texas could be in play for democrats lol

[@MrYohance13]

When 40-50% of voting age adults vote, of course, it's close

[@gerardoalvarado8425]

​@@MrYohance13it kinda worked many Texans are starting to realize what these Trump loyalists are doing and we don't want to be another Ohio.

[@jankarolchodkiewicz4065]

​@@leoissomething6603Didn't sge well

[@grandtheftautogameplays722]

@@gerardoalvarado8425 Hold that fat L lol

[@JesusOrDestruction]

Texas would be dark red without Austin

[@jeffparker2369]

That 1972 map is truly cursed, it’s almost exactly flipped to today minus the Rio Grande

[@deiansalazar140]

The 1972 Republican was very pro civil rights like affirmative action and a typical moderate Republican at the time which is comparable to today's moderate Democrats. The Democrat was wishy washy on civil rights. That was the primary difference in the coalitions.

[@EAFC25_KEYBOARDMAVERICK]

Say whatever you want about Bush...he is one of the reasons Texas is now such a stronghold for Republicans.

[@fotismpalopitas7196]

Texas, Virginia and New Hampshire are my favourite US states. Please make a video about Virginia governors if you have time.🎉🎉

[@applemanproduction7745]

@@fotismpalopitas7196 I plan to complete all gubernatorial elections before the election

[@gdaholic]

Notice how Rick Perry lost major popularity his second term. That’s because he had just screwed over Texas Teachers including rural conservatives. He had the bright idea that teachers were rich and double dipping, when in reality retire rehire was the only way a teacher could afford to live.

[@nicasioourion]

This explains the very close result, the most surprising thing is the result of the third candidates (Strayhorn and Freeman). Any reason for that?

[@gdaholic]

@ Strayhorn was once a teacher and on school board in Austin, had flip flopped parties, was Republican till her run for Governor, then she embarrassed herself on the debate stage. If she wouldn’t have flopped the debate, she would have been second place or higher. But I’m glad she didn’t get it because it turns out she’s a uniparty globalist. I’m telling you Teachers we’re upset and Rick Perry created a teacher shortage. But it’s hard to vote for someone who can’t answer who’s the President Elect of Mexico when running for Governor of Texas. Was probably just a slip of mind, but we all remember what happened to Gary Johnson LMIAO! To be fair it was a rapid question section of the debate, and she hadn’t slept much at all the whole campaign. I’m sure if the question was about the current Mexican President she would have answered correctly. Now Friedman was jus a sensationalist, not from Texas, had some popular ideas, but was too involved with T Boone Pickens the oil tycoon that invested in “green” energy. Needless to say his version of green energy turned out not to be efficient nor wanted it to be. Texas farmers really hated how they kept being harassed by oil and wind energy companies to have both oil derricks and wind turbines on their farms. How do I know all of this? Well I’m the son of a teacher and grandson of an organic cotton farmer.

[@gdaholic]

@@nicasioourionwell I had basically written a book in response, but it didn’t save. Shorthand: she was a former teacher and then messed up on debate stage. He was pissing off the farmers with his affiliation with TBoone Pickens even though his ideas were popular and he wasn’t originally from Texas. Texans had regret from Bush as a governor who wasn’t from Texas. Turns out most gubernatorial candidates not from Texas wind up being uniparty globalists. Though, ironically she became a uniparty globalist anyways. So glad those two didn’t make it.

[@nicasioourion]

Don't worry, I saw your extended response, thanks for answering me.

[@edmerc92]

What was going on in 1968 for the Panhandle to vote GOP while almost all the rest of the state was Dem?

[@anna-gt2mu]

Q

[@anna-gt2mu]

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[@anna-gt2mu]

Q

[@Ikeaboi]

Smth to do with civil rights act or smth

[@star-roving]

Ann Richards’s loss still baffles me. Wasn’t she really popular? How could she lose?

[@Unknown-us6xh]

Idk, when she won it was only by 3%

[@johntaddy6009]

2006 also included Kinky Freeman as a fourth candudate.

[@JSmithRecords]

I loved him!!!

[@FerdinandPaleologus]

Should have played "Asshole from El Paso" for that election.

[@gdaholic]

That oil tycoon that got us into polluting the skies with insufficient wind technology and stifling better technologies. Glad we didn’t get him. Stop the bird killing, land polluting wind turbines. Bladeless wind turbines were stifled by people like him.

[@norelis512]

para un estado de 30 millones de habitantes ha tenido una muy baja participación electoral probablemente no superó ni siquiera el 40% de participación en 2010 y 2014

[@JesusOrDestruction]

Abbot going for the record

[@Ken-Mojo-Dojo]

Abbott the FDR for texas

[@georgegonzalez5977]

Can you name all the songs please? Especially the song in Spanish about George W Bush lol

[@JoeyBaines-o7g]

Seeing Austin go from red in 1998 to dark blue in 2022 is one of the worst things that's happened to Texas.

[@nxronite9994]

All them Cali Libs and illegals doing the work

[@Hatchbasic]

Greg Abbott is trash

[@deiansalazar140]

If you helped more workers and people of color then it wouldn't have. It's your party's fault for not trying to work out the racism that people of color have experienced and the structural problems they experience as people of color. If you actually put in the effort they'd be red.

[@flooffy7987]

*best

[@michaelcheung3072]

Would like to see Massachusetts Gubernatorial Election

[@rowdyroughman]

Have you done the North Carolina gubernatorial one yet? My homestate!

[@chicagof40phakahenry19]

As a republican I have to admit, the Democratic Party was good back then, Now they want to have far left polices

[@banksavram]

The Democratic and Republican parties used to both have a liberal and conservative wing. The democrats in the south (including Texas) were conservative (generally anti-big government, pro-segregation, states rights, etc.), while democrats outside of the south were more liberal (strong support for new deal policies, anti-segregation, etc.). Meanwhile, the Republicans had basically zero voter support in the south, but the party had more liberal members, like Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller, and more conservative members like Barry Goldwater. The south turned red, however, after the democrats passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Shortly thereafter, Republicans began to win in the south for the first time ever (including Barry Goldwater winning the deep south in the 1964 presidential election running on a pro-segregation platform), and by the Reagan era basically all of the conservative southern Democrats had shifted over to the now more conservative Republican Party.

[@Lucas-fg9yc]

Y'know you can just say you miss segregation

[@chicagof40phakahenry19]

@@Lucas-fg9yc I was being sarcastic

[@obsidian_wolf]

@@mathandsciences1980 partially true, it was the conservatives that supported slavery, backed the kkk, as well as racist idea's such as jim crow laws. Back then, it was the democratic party that was the conservative party whilst the republican party was the liberal party. Parties flipped, and now the conservatives are the republicans, and the liberals are the democrats.

[@reviveihavethesmr]

​@chicagof40phakahenry19 no you weren't lol

[@MrBagui-ll6jx]

Many democrat voters were dead already now decrease for voters in Texas. But they'll more increase back again on someday for Democrat voters in Texas, since 1952 to 1994.

[@johngregory3564]

Hank Grover ran against Dolph Briscoe in 1972, not Paul Eggers as you have it.

[@JSmithRecords]

Ann Richards the goat!!

[@gdaholic]

Started out nice until she became openly anti gun. As a 7th+ generation Texan, if you aren’t for 2A, then you ain’t for Texas.

[@Unknown-us6xh]

The “goat” yet she was only voted for one term…

[@emreyurttas5051]

I'll never understand how we went from Ann Richards to George W bush!

[@xxgermankillerxx1853]

Soy George W Bush y aprobae esta mensaje

[@williamcollins3177]

Guns

[@jorgemercado4428]

Let’s see, ran as democrat, particularly a progressive that while winning by 49% over Williams 47%, still isn’t a good record number to start off with, came out the gate being painted as the black sheep that would creep on the Whole classical Texan Conservative values(a San Antonio Republican political activist laid a black wreathe during the campaign at her Austin headquarters that read “Death to the family” so you can guess where this was going) instituted under her term was the Texas lottery as a means to help finance the Texas school budgets, decentralized school management and attempted the equalize school budgets under the Robin Hood plan, back in 1990 in Houston she both campaigns against the anti-homophobia laws in Texas yet during her governorship signed a law that re-coded the penal law and then criminalized it, as a misdemeanor(party politics wasn’t happy particularly). Also under her governorship but not directly her decision, a long overdue project, a 44 billion national science project fell through with again billions in spent investment and projections for development thrown out the window in Texas for a supercollider because the Cold War ended and Congress was having a hard time justifying the funding 3 national science projects, ISS, the collider and nominally the human genome project, especially with what was a more fiscally conservative Congress that only more so grew until after Bill Clinton won the presidency. One had to go. Along with other cuts from the end of the Cold War some mandatory spending fell through and certain projects weren’t going to be funded so she had to close them which doesn’t look good on the ballot sheet in voters minds. Increased jail space and released less incarcerated individuals. She was doomed by choosing with her morals and principles, lost some voters from party politics, others from poor timing of Cold War era funding of projects running out and having to decide to close or campaign a state budget for such a costly projects and others from proposed changes to how things were done. It wrung her she the death nell for the democrat expectations of seeing the governorship again due to polarizing state politics and voters Turing more Red(Republican)

[@ChairmanOProductions]

Texas flipping red. When Republicans started carrying Texas in the presidential elections, it was the beginning of the end for Texas Democrats. Ann Richard's was the last casualty as both senate seats flipped red prior.

[@gdaholic]

Guns, and sadly that Yankee was better on guns. The globalist installed him in Texas as the nominee to combat against gun grabbing Richards. I liked her before she became openly anti gun.

[@ct6852]

Looks like a lot of conformity in Texas. Neighbors must really pressure each other to vote a certain way. Curious what was going on in 1978 though. That was an equal divide.

[@jorgemercado4428]

Call it the beginning of death nell of the classical southern democrat, with jimmy carters win and subsequent term, along with a general trend in the wider us population in response to global oil, domestic job wages, stagnant economic growth and the general economic of the late 70s and early 80s, led to flip flop between parties starting with 74 election and final term of former Governor Briscoe(D) which had the term amended from a 2 year To a four year term his combined terms saw an economic boom in Texas and general economic development, he in turn lost the primary for democrat nomination as the party favored a new voice. And lost in the 78’ election to former Governor Clements(R)(also first Republican since reconstruction) who himself lost to former Governor White(D) over concerns of Clements poor economic performance and lack of support from minority groups in the vote, not to mention an oil drilling accident which Clement’s happened to have shares in company who nominally owned but did operate the rig, of which it was under lease to a Mexican company and his shares were in a blind trust but flat excuses of responsibility to some voters when you loose by 327,000 votes , While also having been previously appointed by Briscoe in the past , White attempted to lure in new industry to the state and improve on education.

[@alr6111]

If there is a landlside, then you call it uniformity

[@gdaholic]

More of a National Pride. There’s great diversity, but if you ain’t a real Texan, you won’t last long. There are certain ideals that we keep tradition of as a former Nation.

[@ct6852]

@@gdaholic We've all heard the spiel. Ad nauseum.

[@gdaholic]

@@ct6852 There’s a difference between a totalitarian force of fear and a community that holds traditional values out of pride with conviction of common goals whilst diverting from division in chaos. If you can look past your differences to move forward in your communalities, you will be impermeable. Hence why we have not descended to the psychosis that is California.

[@aaronreyes1590]

For the 1972 election, it was Henry Grover (you got the picture right, just the wrong name)

[@CheeseIsNasty]

Dang Texas used to be blue

[@PeteMachini6732]

Whats the rick perry song?

[@AggressiveSkunk]

Answer to no one by Colt Ford

[@PeteMachini6732]

@AggressiveSkunk thank you good sir 🙏

[@AggressiveSkunk]

@@PeteMachini6732 no problem!

[@jorgemercado4428]

Since I was born and since my eldest sibling were born between the early and late 90’s less Texan were inclined to vote, even less gave a damn about politics and its consequence due to what I see as a distrust in politicians and their resolve to actually do something, or some cases respect the voters and not change something that was good in turn for a political advantage or of more consequence closer involvement in local rather than state election in areas were those registered actually cared to vote regularly. Voters since the new millennium have voted with their principles and not for the party, which followed generational trends, older family gens and business oriented voted in early 2000s, while by 2006 led to the tragedy that was victory by 39% but still a win, but for a third candidate to pull 18% and the democrat 29%, the republicans were not taking it well. And by 2010 it fell more into the modern generation like millennials and gen x voting more into democrat in larger cities and metropolitan areas, and as some gen x flips into the other side of the aisle new gen z voters come in with more on an emphasis on individual votes by who they could stand for, which nominally meant more heavily democrat but some landed Republican, likewise in the senate seats, Texas is at risk of flipping blue and likewise in a couple years potentially purple in general elections

[@rossmurphy3967]

@jorgemercado4428 Trump won texas by nearly 14% in November and won a majority of the Hispanic vote with big gains in the Rio Grande region.

[@dario9107]

Gen Z is very republican

[@sheehan92]

Would be great to see ORourke run Texas. Texas needs some beta male lathergy.

[@adams8132]

Texas…one of the ugliest looking states in the country with some of the most horrendous landscapes known to mankind but yet has had some of the most colorful political characters. Fascinating dichotomy.

[@dario9107]

Texas is more than just the great Plains

[@gdaholic]

@@dario9107We are trying to keep people away! Too many people here from CA now. Must convince them to move back and stay away! 😝

[@RealNosyGamer]

1954 💀

[@donaldd]

State increasingly competitive due to demographic changes.

[@TheAurelianProject]

It’s all on purpose

[@Pro-Western9391]

Texans supported the Democratic Party because it used to be a racist party, and now Texans support Trump, a racist.

[@RomarioArreola]

Texas is going to turn blue by 2028 in fact there most democrat registered voters in Texas but they didn’t went into the polls in 2020 nor 2016

[@CoolMaster-gr3bp]

Very interesting that they went republican nationally 2 decades before trump.

[@ThePoliticalDemon2001]

Dude, do you ever look at your tweets & realize that you're being the racist here?

[@cyrus3229]

Trump is not a racist. Quit it with the bs claims.

[@TheWay413]

Da-fuq? You can't call other people racist like that. You don't know them well as a person. The Republican Party is The Party of Lincoln (Free the Slaves). Nowadays, The Republican Party is The Party of Common Sense, Freedom, and Free Speech. And The Democratic Party nowadays is The Party of North Korea and Cuba, (Keeping you Poor like Communism).

[@patrickthomas8101]

Man as a Texan it will be nice to see a Democrat run this state again. Things were good back then. cheaper too.

[@AFT_05G]

Who're you trying to fool you probably weren't even alive before 2000s

[@TheAurelianProject]

You’re kidding right

[@NicoTheGreat5]

The democrats of then would be republicans now

[@rossmurphy3967]

@patrickthomas8101 If Texas had remained Democrat since 1994 It would now be as bad as California with high regulation, high housing costs, high crime, anti business policies etc.

[@dustinthomas7052]

Oh bless your heart

[@caseo9324]

#kamalaharris