Donley County residents followed most of the rest of Texas in preferring Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama during last week’s general election, but Mr. Obama won several other key states and secured enough electoral votes to win another term in office.
Locally, the Republican, Romney, received 1,286 votes while the Democratic president garnered 226. Twenty people voted for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and socialist write-in candidate Stewart Alexander received one vote each.
Voter turnout locally was down slightly from the last presidential election with 62.5 percent of registered voters – or a total of 1,539 citizens – casting ballots.
Clarendon native Republican Mac Thornberry coasted to another term in Congress and received 1,353 votes. Republican Ted Cruz led all candidates locally and statewide to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the US Senate.
State Sen. Kel Seliger (R) was re-elected with no opposition, and Ken King (R) of Canadian was also unopposed in seeking to represent Donley County in the State House of Representatives.
District Judge Stuart Messer was unopposed and received 1,324 votes. District Attorney Luke Inman also faced no opponent and got 1,280 votes.
All county level races were also uncontested with incumbents cruising to re-election. Results are as follows: County Attorney Landon Lambert 1242, County Sheriff Butch Blackburn 1342, County Tax Assessor/Collector Linda Crump 1364, County Commissioner Pct. 1 Mark White 339, County Commissioner Pct. 3 Andy Wheatly 303, and Constable Prcts. 3&4 Doug Wright 577.
In your article you refer to our President as Mr. O’Bama. I believe he should be addressed as President O’Bama. Just the way I was taught to address our President by my good teachers at Clarendon Public Schools in the 50’s.
The article addresses the president as President Barack Obama on first reference, which is accepted journalistic style for a news article. The Associated Press Stylebook, which is the guide most professional journalists follow, actually says to refer to the president by just his last name on second reference, but the Enterprise used the more old-fashioned – and we believe more respectful – style of using “Mr.” in front of his last name. The New York Times follows the same pattern as indicated in a story today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/world/asia/obama-in-cambodia-sidesteps-the-ghosts-of-history.html?ref=politics
I don’t believe you will find a news organization – print or broadcast – that refers to the commander-in-chief as President Obama all the way throughout a story.
Not sure why we have to follow New York’s example. Think Panhandle folks might be a tad bit better than them!!