Kevin Tarr wrote:
> Does one county prove a trend? Is Harris County mostly dem? What about the
> other counties? In fact: what are these 'record low' numbers based on,
> polling data? Bah. (please don't flame me, I'm just making fun)
I can tell you about 2 counties.
Travis County, which contains most of Austin, including the part with
the Capitol, a *lot* of state offices, and the University of Texas at
Austin, is very dem.
Williamson County immediately to the north, which contains a bit of
northwest Austin (including where I used to live), Round Rock which is
where Dell Computer Corp. headquarters are, and a lot of people who
commute to Travis County, is very repub. It's also one of the
fastest-growing counties in the US.
I vote in the Republican primaries because in the local races, chances
are the winner of the Republican primary is winner of the general
election, and I like to make my vote count however I can.
> And I was trying to make a point of (black + repub) > (black + dem) in
> white voters minds. People would turn out in droves to vote against Jesse
> Jackson. Not saying Ron Kirk is anywhere near Jesse Jackson.
Both Kirk and Jackson are black, and both are Democrats. That's about
all the similarity I saw, but I haven't been following either very
closely recently to see where they agree and disagree on things.
What I *do* know about Ron Kirk is that when his supporters were trying
to get campaign donations, people would say that they'd just given some,
when they'd really just given money to Kirk Watson, a white democrat who
was running for state Attorney General, and who had resigned as mayor of
Austin to run. (It was really bad when Ron Kirk's people called folks
in Austin, but I heard of similar things happening when they called in
Houston, as well. Or at least that's what I remember.)
Julia
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