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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow a Blue Wave Wiped Out Republicans in the Largest County in Texas
An energized Democratic electorate wasnt enough to defeat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz this month, but in the states most populous county, it created a blue landslide.
Nearly every Republican in Harris County, home to Houston, was unseated on Nov. 6, including 59 judges and the top executive, Ed Emmett, a moderate who won in 2014 with 83% of the vote.
Mr. Emmett, whose official title is county judge and who was widely lauded for steering the county through the devastation of Hurricane Harvey last year, lost to political novice Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat who said she has never previously attended a meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, which she will soon oversee. The 27-year-old won by less than 2 percentage points and will now help run a metro area that encompasses some 4.6 million people, the third-most-populous county in the U.S.
The Harris County election drew national attention in part because 17 African-American women, all Democrats, won judgeships, a symbolic shift for one of the nations most diverse cities. But it also demonstrates the growing political divide between more liberal cities and conservative rural areas that is evident even in red states like Texas, where every elected statewide official is a Republican.
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How a Blue Wave Wiped Out Republicans in the Largest County in Texas (Original Post)
Gothmog
Nov 2018
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underpants
(182,877 posts)1. I wonder how many Katrina kids are now voting there
It's been 13 years and I know a lot of people from New Orleans, at least initially, moved to the Houston area.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)2. Houston has been blue for some time.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)4. Only since 2016
The GOP won a number of races in 2012 and did very well in 2014
tibbir
(1,170 posts)6. The city of Houston has been blue for a very long time
Until recent years HARRIS COUNTY, where Houston is located, has voted repuke because of all of the conservatives in the suburbs. Now the city outvotes that conservative vote bloc.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)3. Nearly every Republican in Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, was unseated in the midterms, i
blogslut
(38,016 posts)5. 38 Electoral votes
Turn Texas blue and the GOP is finished. It's that simple.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)7. Blue? Purple will do the trick! NT