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applegrove

(118,802 posts) Sat Mar 3, 2018, 06:38 PM Mar 2018

Democratic Early Turnout Has Doubled In Texas

https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/03/democratic-early-turnout-doubled-texas/

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“With one day of early voting to go, turnout in the Democratic primary had nearly doubled since the last midterm election in 2014,” the Dallas Morning News reports.

In contrast, early voting for the Republican primary is up just 18%.

“Political experts attribute much of Texas’ increased voter turnout as a reaction to the election of President Trump in 2016, as well as the state’s eight open congressional seats.”

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Democratic Early Turnout Has Doubled In Texas (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2018 OP

The last few election cycles, our early turnout has always looked good aaaaaaaaaaand .... dawg Mar 2018 #1

+100% turnout for Democrats vs +18% for the Cons is John Fante Mar 2018 #2

and the GOP vote from 2016 is down 33% - some 230K voters whereas Dems went up. sunonmars Mar 2018 #3

I saw those numbers in another thread. In Texas, that is remarkable. John Fante Mar 2018 #4

For this thread Gothmog Mar 2018 #5

dawg

(10,624 posts)

1. The last few election cycles, our early turnout has always looked good aaaaaaaaaaand ....

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 06:45 PM

Mar 2018

somehow we still get killed on election day.

It's a little spooky, to be honest.

John Fante

(3,479 posts)

2. +100% turnout for Democrats vs +18% for the Cons is

Reply to dawg (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 06:52 PM

Mar 2018

unheard of in recent elections, especially in Texas.

The last time we saw such discrepancies in a mid-term election was 2006, when we handed the Grand Wizard Party their asses.