Reply #5: Well in 2008 ....

[Tx4obama]

Obama won all of our largest cities/counties in Texas: Dallas/Dallas, Houston/Harris, Austin/Travis, El Paso, San Antonio, etc.
(except McCain won Ft. Worth)

It is very feasible that Obama could win Texas.
There aren't that many folks down here that like Perry, and if he is out of the race (due to his 'drunken' speech in NH) and the general election ends up to be between Obama & Romney - Obama would have a great chance of putting Texas' electoral votes in his win column.

There are a hell of a lot more Democrats in Texas than most people realize :)

Edited to add ...

Texas 2008 presidential election vote tally

Obama 3,528,633
McCain 4,479,328

margin was -11.76
that is less than a lot of the other red states
See the chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Presidential_Election
halfway down the page - look at the margins of the states McCain won.