Unless he can close the almost 20 point gap ... (ROFLMAO) ... in this RED RED STATE.

Texas is going DEM! Wee hah! We're running em out of town!

that's a fact bitches!

(levi..i thought we were bros)

for winning an election!

Catholics sure do know about pulling out, so it's no wonder he's pulling out of a state with such a blue enclave as the border and central counties* of Texas.

*excluding counties between Bexar and Travis

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/mccain_obama_deal_puts_limits.html

Secondly, isn't he kind of one degree of separation from "take the money, and run?" Yeah, that's right, I'm talking about Palin and her acceptance of the money for the bridge to nowhere and then saying she no longer supports the project.

It's not.

Texas, like WA, has a lot of rural areas that are very conservative, surrounding a few liberal-leaning cities. In WA, the liberal-leaning cities tend to dominate state politics, where in Texas the opposite is true. It does tend to lean conservative, but the liberal-leaning cities are growing, and it isn't as red of a red state as it once was.

McCain has been polling ahead in TX. However, the latest state poll is now a week old, and he was ahead by less than 10 points. Assuming that the numbers have shifted somewhat toward Obama in the last week (not an unlikely assumption, since that has been true nationwide), there is at least an outside chance that Obama could take TX.

Truthfully, I suspect TX is more likely than not to go to McCain, but it is by no means a safe state for him. He could be making a huge mistake by abandoning it. Or maybe it is a sign that he is running short of cash and manpower, and is getting desperate.

If my vote actually *counts*, and Texas goes Democratic? It's gonna be a once in a lifetime, naked in the streets happy dance.

But it's not likely, even with McCain pulling out. Take it from an Austin liberal... we're *completely* surrounded in here.