Has texas ever gone to a democratic candidate?

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thank you to those who did actually answer my question. Not just spew hate about the democratic party. You all show what is fundementally disfunctional with the republican party!!! Cant answer a simple question without slinging mud

Answer 1

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In a Presidential election - the last time Texas went to a democrat was 1976 (Jimmy Carter). The 1972 election went to a Republican (Lyndon B. Johnson). Prior to that, Texas voted democrat in every election since 1856, except for three times (1952 & 1956 - Eisenhower; and 1928 - Herber Hoover).

Answer 2

y would you vote for a preson who wants higher taxes!!!!????


OBAMA SUCKS!!!!!!

Answer 3

I sure at one time they did. But Texas appears to be full of idiots who vote Republicans. I mean look at the current president who is from Texas.

Answer 4

Yes, in fact the democrats used to be a perdominately southern party, nicknamed the dixie crats.

Answer 5

I'm not sure, but probably not. If they had, it was awhile, I'm sure.

Answer 6

I don't think so. Texas believes in freedom and liberty, not Socialism.

Answer 7

1992, 1984

Source(s):

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/his…

Answer 8

Lyndon Johnson, I would presume. 1964.

Answer 9

Governor Ann Richards. Obama should be next in line according to early voting results. We'll see how this plays out in Texas.

Answer 10

I'm not sure, but I sure wish it would go democrat on this election. I live in Texas, but i've never voted for anything other than Democrat.

Answer 11

I believe it went for Johnson and Kennedy, then Johnson again.

Johnson was a Texan

Peace
Jim

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Answer 12

No but who cares? They can go back to being Mexico for all I care.

Answer 13

1968
Hubert Humphrey

They also selected LBJ in '64 and Kennedy in '60. Nobody every remembers Humphrey, though

(and Jordan should take a closer look at her own source ;-) she mis-read the results)

Source(s):

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/his…
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/pre_196…

Answer 14

We've had Dem. Governors like Ann Richards. More people voted in the Dem. Primaries than in the Republican. Hillary won. But it looks like 76 was the last year a Democratic presidential candidate won Texas.

Source(s):

http://www.270towin.com/states/Texas

Answer 15

Yeah, LBJ, and if you excluded civil rights legislation, his Presidency sucked too.

Answer 16

They went for Kennedy/Johnson in 1960, in fact that's a major reason Lyndon Johnson was on Kennedy's ticket (they did not like each other). I am sure the Democrats easily took Texas in 1964 when LBJ was President. I don't know after that, I don't follow state by state.

In more recent years, like many Southern states, Republicans have taken over. But for much of history, before the Civil Rights Era, the Democrats, sometimes called "Dixiecrats" ran politics in the South. Of course it was a very different Democratic party, nearly opposite the later party, being for segregation, Jim Crow Laws and against Civil Rights Legislation. The modern Democratic party was almost a different Party that started in the North and northeast.

Answer 17

Many many times
1932 ,1936,1940,1944,1948,1960,1964,1968.
1976 and I'm positive that there's more

Source(s):

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/n…
Go all the way to the bottom and pick a year