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The 2008 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 34 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
The 2008 election showed huge increases in Internet use. Another study done after the election gave a lot of insight on young voters. Thirty-seven percent of Americans ages 18–24 got election news from social networking sites. Almost a quarter of Americans saw something about the election in an online video. [129]
The Texas Democratic Party used the results of the Primary to determine how its 126 district delegates would be apportioned to each presidential candidate. Unlike other states, and even the Republican Party of Texas , the Texas Democratic Party does not allocate its delegates to Congressional Districts.
The last time Texas' electoral college voted for a Democrat was in 1976 with the election of Jimmy Carter, according to nonpartisan site 270toWin. Starting with Ronald Reagan in 1980, Texan voters ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
An outlier in presidential races, the 2000 election between former Vice President Al Gore and then-Texas Gov. George Bush was not decided until Dec. 12, 2000, five weeks after Election Day.
Election Day has arrived. Follow for live results and real-time updates on key national, statewide and local races. Get real-time Texas general election results for key Austin area and statewide races
The 2008 Texas Republican presidential primary took place on March 4, 2008. John McCain won the primary election, giving him enough delegate votes to guarantee his nomination at the 2008 Republican National Convention .