Texas Petition to Secede Reaches Threshold for Obama Comment
"Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government." The petition appeared on a section of the White House website called "We the People" that invites users with a U.S. zip code to submit or sign petitions about policy changes they would like to see. A petition must reach 25,000 signatures within 30 days for the administration to comment on it.  

US election: Unhappy Americans ask to secede from US
More than 100,000 Americans have petitioned the White House to allow their states to secede from the US, after President Barack Obama's re-election. The appeals were filed on the White House's We the People website. Most of the 20 states with petitions voted for Republican Mitt Romney.