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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\"></p>           Bucking past trends, Golden Triangle voters swayed to the right in 2010, casting their ballots for Republican candidates across the board.   <br /><br />While the majority of Jefferson County elected officials ran unopposed, easily winning reelection, Southeast Texas voters did, however, push Republican candidates to victory in other hotly contested statewide races.<br /><br />In Jefferson County, U.S. Rep. Ted Poe of District 2 easily defeated his Libertarian challenger, David Smith, capturing 87.58 percent of the 37,390 total votes cast.<br /><br />Gov. Rick Perry also fared well among Jefferson County voters, collecting 27,709 votes for 50.47 percent. His Democrat rival Bill White managed 26,433 votes.<br /><br />Perry's Republican counterpart, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, surpassed him by gathering 29,369 votes or 54.22 percent. His opponent, Linda Chavez-Thompson, settled for 43.90 percent of the vote.<br /><br />Attorney General Greg Abbott received 30,249 votes from Jefferson County residents, 6,984 more than Democrat Barbara Ann Radnofsky.<br /><br />Jefferson County residents also favored Republican candidates running for the Texas Supreme Court, bestowing all three Republican hopefuls with more than 51 percent of the vote.<br /><br />Supreme Court Place 3 Republican candidate Debra Lehrmann netted 27,529 votes or 51.18 percent; Justice Paul Green, Place 5, received 27,675 votes or 51.64 percent; and Justice Eva Guzman got 27,636 votes or 51.62 percent.<br /><br />The majority of Jefferson County residents also voted for Republican incumbents in the following races: Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs; Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson; Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples; and Railroad Commissioner David Porter.   <br /><br />Ninth Court of Appeals Justice Charles Kreger, Republican incumbent, trounced his Democrat challenger, Ron Mangus, receiving 28,293 votes for a total of 53.41 percent.<br /><br />Locally, Democrats Judge Bob Wortham, 58th District Court, and Judge Donald Floyd, 172nd District Court, ran unopposed, receiving 34,269 votes and 32,566 votes respectively.<br /><br />In Orange County, voters leaned even more to the right, awarding Republicans in most cases with 70 percent of the vote.      <br /><br />Perry received 66.73 percent of Orange County votes, while Dewhurst captured 72.67. Abbott landed 74.80 percent while Combs surpassed them all with 87.94.<br /><br />U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady netted 14,498 votes, beating Democrat Kevin Hargettt by a margin of 54.51 percent. <br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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