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fi about 80 percent of the estimated
votes counted.
Among the few bright spots for
state Democrats was their ability to
maintain their narrow majority in the
Texas House. As a result, Speaker Pete
Laney likely will return to his post.
“Is this an especially good year to
be a Republican in Texas? Yes it is,”
said Christopher Wlezien, professor
of political science at the University
of Houston. “You have a popular
governor running in Texas with vir
tually no challenge. It’s not going to
get much better than this for the Re
publican Party in Texas.”
Bush led Gore, 59 percent to 38
percent, with 92 percent of the
precincts reporting in Texas. Repub
lican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was
outdistancing Democratic challenger
Gene Kelly about 2-to-1.
With Republicans easily turning
away two appellate court challenges,
the GOP again ensured that no De
mocrat will hold statewide office for
at least another two years. The Re
publican Party swept all statewide
seats on Bush’s coattails in 1998.
Turnout on Tuesday was high, de
spite bad weather in some parts of the
state. The Texas Secretary of State’s
Office estimated that 7 million of the
state’s 12.3 registered voters, or 57
percent, had gone to the polls. That
surpassed record turnout of 1992,
when 6.2 million voted.
Victorious Railroad Commission
candidate Charles Matthews, a Re
publican, said negative attacks on
the state contributed to the strong
GOP showing.
“Texans are Texans before they’re
Republicans or Democrats or just
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happening and just keeping
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tion night rally.
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retract its previous projecfej
Gore had won Florida
crowd’s ire and led to he
boos as watched the netwoitl
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agreed.
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ing a state without knowing.
real numbers were,” she said,
that the atmosphere at the cap;
enjoyable.
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she stood with her family,
bated its decision to call Flon;
ing its broadcast, and wascii
by one of its guests, Williams
of Empower America.
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back,” he said on national tele
gamering enthusiastic appro\
the people in Austin.
The crowd responded toel
other than the president
earnestly booing when fus
Hillary Clinton was announce
ner of the Senate seat in New
As the crowd awaited
tion results, a string of end
and politicians took the stage
spirits high.
Texas Lt. Gov. Rick Pert),
Class of ’74, was one of man|
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about anything else,” Matthews said.
“Texans are extraordinarily proud of
George Bush.”
Momentum for Bush’s presiden
tial campaign began building after
his re-election to governor in 1998
and peaked Tuesday night with
Texas handing him a large chunk of
electoral votes.
The true battles were being waged
for key legislative seats, with the bal
ance of power in the state House and
Senate at stake. The party in control
holds the cards when lawmakers draw
new lines for congressional and leg
islative seats during the 2001 session.
Democrats protected their ma
jority in the House, which they have
ruled since the 1870s. They won 77
— or more than half — of the con
tests to the Republicans’ 72 seats.
Democrats held the lead in the only
undecided race.
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutcliisoi
Texas, was re-elected handily in
terday’s elections. Shedelivei lip*
short acceptance speech
promised to return
continue her work on
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Texas.
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Texas songwriter Pat Greet
among the entertainers, The es [
crowd stopped h i m mid-song as
reported that Bush won the el
votes of Ohio and Tennessee
As the clock passed midnigl
brought down the tempmpl
enthusiasm soared among ‘
supporters awaiting the out
the ever-close battle in Florida
After they spent almost nine
on their feet, their perseverancf|
off. The crowd reacted with an
tic outburst at 1:20 a.m. whenl
announced Bush as the 43rdt
dent of the United States.
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