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About 8,087,000 votes were cast in Texas in the 2008 presidential election.
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The annexation of Texas was the main issue of the election of 1844.
Teddy Roosevelt won the 1904 presidential election defeating Alton Parker. In the 1904 presidential election Teddy Roosevelt received 336 electoral votes and Alton Parker received 140 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Roosevelt 7,626,593 and Parker 5,082,898. Parker received his electoral votes from the southeastern states - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland. Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Texas had 8,077,073 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election, which translated into 34 electoral votes.
Texas casts its electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College on a winner-take-all basis. The winner of the presidential election on Election Day in Texas gets all of Texas' electoral votes.
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The question of the annexation of Texas was no doubt the issue that most influenced the election outcome of 1844.
The US annexed Texas from Mexico in 1844 after James K Polk won the presidential election.
No. Texas has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1976.
In the 2012 presidential election, Texas voted for the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney.
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