Gallup: "Texas likely to stay red for the foreseeable future"

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I have never really bought the whole "Texas is turning blue" thing.  Once you get outside the major cities there are a lot of suburbs that not only are red but they are dark red. Any success a Democrat has in major cities is easily swallowed up by the suburbs of said city. Case in point Obama only won Harris County which includes Houston by about 975 votes. Then a lot of the suburb counties are large in their own right and also very Republican. Case in point look at Montgomery County, Texas. About 174,000 people cast votes in that county and not only did Romney win it, he did so by nearly 60 points. The same could be said for suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. That is just the beginning of the problem for Texas. I have not even touched on the major areas of Texas that are strong Republican.