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The 2012 Texas Democratic Primary was held on May 29, 2012. Incumbent Barack Obama, running for the nomination without significant opposition, won the primary with 88.18% of the vote and was awarded all of Texas' 287 delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention .
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.
As a result, a number of potential "anti-Romney" candidates were put forward, [23] [24] including future president Donald Trump, [25] former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, [26] New Jersey governor Chris Christie, [27] and Texas governor Rick Perry, [28] the last of whom decided to run in August 2011.
Live election results from The Huffington Post. ... Senate, House and ballot measures. HuffPost Politics 2012 Election Results. Latest Updates ... q Texas Texas: 8 p ...
In fact, the Texas majority didn't vote red until the election of the 31st president, Herbert Hoover, who won the 1928 election. The last time Texas' electoral college voted for a Democrat was in ...
Many of the major issues of the 2012 election were the same as in both 2008 and 2010. [2] Candidates and voters in 2012 were again focused on national economic conditions and jobs, record federal deficits, health care and the effects of the controversial Affordable Care Act, national security and terrorism, education, and energy. [2] [3] [4]
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The election was originally scheduled to take place on Super Tuesday (March 6), but due to litigation over the state's redistricting following the 2010 United States Census, it was rescheduled for April 3. That date is uncertain and the primary was expected to be held, earliest in late May 2012, with both May 22 and May 29 being proposed.