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On Election Day, McCain easily won the state, although his margin of victory was significantly less than that of George W. Bush in 2000 or 2004. This was the first election since 1996 in which the margin of victory was less than one million votes. Regardless, with its 34 electoral votes, Texas was the largest prize for McCain in 2008.
Following the 2002 elections, the Republicans gained control of the House, giving them a governmental trifecta for the first time since Reconstruction. [1] [2] Democrats made significant gains in the 2006 elections, and they gained two more seats following them, one due to a special election, and another due to the defection of Republican Kirk England to the Democratic Party.
But election prediction can be a fickle pursuit, as Zogby demonstrated on Election Day 2004. The day before, in his final election poll, Zogby estimated Bush led Democrat John Kerrey by a single ...
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Astrologers predicted that Biden would drop out of the 2024 presidential race during the Full Moon in Capricorn, and that's exactly what happened.
The Texas Democratic Party sent a total of 228 delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Of those delegates, 193 were pledged and 35 were unpledged. Most of the 193 pledged delegates were allocated at the National Convention according to the results of the Texas Presidential Primary on March 4.
The American political historian had been dubbed the “Nostradamus” of elections because – until last week – he successfully predicted the last nine out of 10 presidential races since 1984 ...
In 2008, Texas had 140 Republican delegates available for the taking, divided into three categories: 96 delegates selected by congressional district (as Texas has 32 districts, each district selects three delegates). 41 delegates selected at-large based on the statewide vote. Three "party leader" delegates.