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freepcrusher
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« on: April 25, 2012, 06:03:55 PM »
« edited: April 25, 2012, 06:06:20 PM by Atari Democrat »

what happened here? At the time, the 8th district was similar to the current 29th. It was only one of the few districts in Texas that had a large labor bloc of voters. It was one of the more democrat leaning districts in Texas giving 63% to Carter in 1976 and 52% to Carter in 1980.

Considering that democrats always ran ahead of the national party in the south and that the you had democrats like Hightower or Hance where Reagan was winning over 60 percent of the vote, how did Bob Eckhardt lose? The Texas GOP was very weak downballot back then and the guy who unseated Eckhardt was a novice politician who wasn't even 30.

Eckhardt hadn't gotten into any scandals or anything. The only controversial thing he had done was to support the campus walkouts/moratorium days in the late 60s/early 70s. That had been ten years earlier and was no longer of political relevance. Was Eckhardt a dem equivalent of Bill Sali? (paging smoltchanov)
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2012, 06:27:40 PM »


Reagan lost the district by seven points. He was the only incumbent I can think of that lost re-election in 1980 in a district Carter won.
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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2012, 10:03:16 PM »

if I remember right the democrats conceded the district to Fields in 1981. The adjoining 18th district was around 100K short of population and it took in all the heavily dem areas of the 8th. Then to compensate it took off all the overpopulated precincts from the 9th in the Kingwood area.
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