Obama's College Try
I'm still moderately curious about Obama's returns in Texas' Red County/College Town regions. There were areas of notable success that I've harped on: A&M, SHSU, Tyler JC, and North Texas. And though smaller, I've only gotten a canvass in from Tom Green county to see what the map might suggest there. Dude only won 6 precincts in the entire county and they don't paint a portrait of him winning the region around the Angelo State campus, but rather the areas where African-American population is concentrated. Obama lost the county and I'm convinced that there's a missed opportunity in similar counties like these.
Mind you, Angelo State isn't the biggest such loss. That'd be Lubbock & McLennan counties. Nacagdoches, Tom Green, and Taylor would be the smaller of the bunch. I'll have to try and create some time to do a more systemic analysis of this at some point.
UPDATE: Ya just knew there had to be a map coming. Dark green is Clinton, light green is Obama. The middle Obama dot near San Angelo is (I believe) the main precinct for the Angelo State campus. But it was only won by Obama 68-62 on 131 total votes (vs 136 TV in the GOP primary) in a county of 10,222 total votes.
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I'm willing to bet that there wasn't much registration done at the other college campuses. The deadline was the day before the Feb 5th primary and neither campaign was in Texas at that point.
It's not entirely true that the campaigns weren't operational in Texas by then, but it stands to reason that the smaller colleges might not have ever gotten the attention to register voters at their college address and that schools like ASU were a distant second to the big campuses (which still leaves Tech unexplained in my mind). My sense is that the staff that Obama had here was just better situated geographically to pay attention to the schools they did and the wins in Smith, Greg, Walker, and Brazos are accomplishments in and of themselves (whether they were organized efforts or mere luck of the demographic draw).