A look at what Texas voters and candidates had to say on Election Day:
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"I hope the Republicans have a big day like everyone is expecting. I hope it's even better than predicted. I think they would start the country down a different road, and that's what we need." - Walter Fitch, a 78-year-old retiree in San Antonio
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"I'm frustrated. I'm a little depressed. Angry? No, because I don't see what's happening now as being Obama's fault. I think (Americans) want to see immediate results and it's not going to happen. I think he is putting things into play now that 10 years down the road we'll reap the benefits of. And I think that's pretty much, good or bad, how most administrations roll." - Tonja Hagy, a 45-year-old Lubbock mother of three who voted for Bill White
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"You'll hear talk about the angry electorate, but what we're really talking about is conservatives and angry Republicans. The president's policies - and something about the president himself - have activated partisanship on the Republican side." - James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin
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"I'm a die-hard Republican. Sometimes I vote for the better candidate." - Ray Hernandez, a 38-year-old sales director from Plano who "went Republican" because he's concerned about "the state of the economy"
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"The Republican Party is not Republican any more. I think that the Republican Party is more religious right than it is fiscal conservative." - Kathrin Kersten, a 31-year-old saleswoman in Austin who voted a straight Democratic ticket even though she says she's a fiscal conservative
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"I didn't come to vote for a winner. I came to vote for what's best for Texas. I don't think Perry necessarily listens even to the Legislature, let alone the people. I think it's time for a change." - Donna Meyer, a 68-year-old retired health care worker from Houston who voted for Bill White
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"Whether it's a tea party or our party, we're having a party tonight. It feels real good to be out here among a thousand, liberty loving, God fearing, gun owning, pro life, property-rights defending, Socialism opposing, family raising, oil and gas drilling Republicans who are better off for it." - Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson after defeating Democratic challenger Hector Uribe
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"Bill White is from a political party that I don't trust on the tax issue, and that was really it for me. Bill White campaigned and I saw him say, `I am a fiscal conservative.' But, well, I don't believe it. I don't believe Democrats are fiscally conservative." - Andrew Piel, a 38-year-old attorney from Arlington
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"I tend to agree with Democrats and their thinking. Unfortunately, I live in Texas and the state is so Republican that my vote doesn't really count. But I try to still get out and do my part." - Ariel Rosen, a 25-year-old actor from San Antonio
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"I've just had it with the Democrats. I don't like the direction the country's headed. I don't want people dependent on the government." - Kenny Stinton, a 50-year-old television news editor from Houston who says he broke from his norm and voted a straight Republican ticket "to stop the madness"
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"I think that Rick Perry's been in office too long. I think he's bad for higher education. I think there is something wrong with applying a corporate model to what is essentially a service body, a service entity. We are not about the bottom line, we are not about profit. But it just feels like there's more and more of that being put on the model for higher education." - Susan Tomlinson, a professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock
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