Texas Results (Amarillo And Statewide)

It took a court fight and a delay of nearly three months, but the Democrats and Republicans in the state of Texas finally got to vote in their primary. As expected, the turnout was light here in the Panhandle. Here are the results for Potter and Randall Counties (each of which contains a part of the city of Amarillo):

RANDALL COUNTY (100% reporting)

President (Democrat)
Barack Obama...............532  (85.81%)
Others...............88  (14.19%)
TOTAL VOTES...............620

President (Republican)
Mitt Romney...............8,814 (72.07%)
Rick Santorum...............1,203 (9.83%)
Ron Paul...............1,026  (8.38%)
Newt Gingrich...............540  (4.41%)
Others...............179  (1.46%)
Uncommitted...............467  (3.81%)
TOTAL VOTES...............12,229

Senate (Democrat)
Paul Sadler...............191  (33.15%)
Grady Yarbrough...............183  (31.77%)
Addie Dainell Allen...............121  (21.00%)
Sean Hubbard...............81  (14.06%)
TOTAL VOTES...............576

Senate (Republican)
David Dewhurst...............5,945  (49.50%)
Ted Cruz...............4,108  (34.21%)
Tom Leppert...............1,192  (9.92%)
Craig James...............238  (1.98%)
Others...............525  (4.37%)
TOTAL VOTES...............12.008

POTTER COUNTY (100% reporting)

President (Democrat)
Barack Obama...............761  (82.90%)
Others...............157  (17.10%)
TOTAL VOTES...............918

President (Republican)
Mitt Romney...............4,049  (74.87%)
Rick Santorum...............428  (7.91%)
Ron Paul...............460  (8.51%)
Newt Gingrich...............175  (3.24%)
Others...............119  (2.20%)
Uncommitted...............177  (3.27%)
TOTAL VOTES...............5,408

Senate (Democrat)
Paul Sadler...............236  (28.61%)
Grady Yarbrough...............243  (29.45%)
Addie Dainell Allen...............225  (27.27%)
Sean Hubbard...............121  (14.67%)
TOTAL VOTES...............825

Senate (Republican)
David Dewhurst...............2,550  (48.02%)
Ted Cruz...............1,838  (34.78%)
Tom Leppert...............555  (10.41%)
Craig James...............89  (1.70%)
Others...............275  (5.18%)
TOTAL VOTES...............5,307

STATEWIDE RESULTS
Democrats 99% reporting
Republicans 94% reporting

President (Democrat)
Barack Obama...............512,115  (88.29%)
Others...............66,916  (11.71%)
TOTAL VOTES...............580,031

President (Republican)
Mitt Romney...............951,066  (69.06%)
Rick Santorum...............109,834  (7.97%)
Ron Paul...............162,538  (11.80%)
Newt Gingrich...............64,669  (4.69%)
Others...............29,981  (2.18%)
Uncommitted...............58,973  (4.28%)
TOTAL VOTES...............1,377,061

Senate (Democrat)
Paul Sadler...............172,078  (35.16%)
Grady Yarbrough...............126,107  (25.77%)
Addie Dainell Allen...............112,367  (22.96%)
Sean Hubbard...............78,748  (16.09%)
TOTAL VOTES...............489,300

Senate (Republican)
David Dewhurst...............596,417  (44.77%)
Ted Cruz...............448,287  (33.65%)
Tom Leppert...............181,155  (13.59%)
Craig James...............48,811  (3.66%)
Others...............57,374  (4.31%)
TOTAL VOTES...............1,332,044

About all that last night's results tell us is that Mitt Romney has enough delegates now to claim the Republican nomination, and he will face off against President Obama in November. Neither the Democratic or Republican senate races were decided, as both will go to a run-off election.

I thought that many people would vote for Grady Yarbrough, thinking he was related to the great Sen. Ralph Yarborough (he's not), and that did happen -- but he did a lot better than I expected. It looks like he'll be in the run-off against Paul Sadler. But the biggest surprise was Sean Hubbard finishing a poor fourth in the senate race. I had expected him to be in a run-off against Sadler (and that would have been a fun match-up for Texas Democrats). Did Hubbard just look too young for voters to take him seriously?

NOTE -- Less than 15% of the state's registered voters voted in yesterday's primaries (3.74% in the Democratic primary and 10.56% in the Republican primary). That's a pitiful turnout for both parties.