Voting news out of TX keeps getting better

[yaesu]

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[Botany]

1. BYE Don

"The youth vote in Texas is up 600% from 2016."

[triron]

2. If true very bad for the criminal.

[beachbumbob]

3. In 2018, Beto lost by 200,000 votes to Cruz, a mere 3%

On average, this breaks 3-1 to democrats and all of sudden Biden is really in play to win Texas. Remember in 2018, the last statewide election of national ramification. the incumbent Cruz held on to beat Beto by a mere 200,000 votes out of only 8.3 million votes cast.

[Gothmog]

4. The final vote total for Texas could be close to 12 million votes

Michael Li used to have the best election law/redistricting blog in Texas but was hired by the Bennan Center. Michael makes the case for 12 million possible votes in Texas which means that no one has any idea what is going to happen

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[bucolic_frolic]

8. unfortunately, yes, both sides have pedal to the metal turnout efforts /nt

[idziak4ever1234]

5. I have seen a lot of numbers lately, but that one blows my mind.

[Thekaspervote]

6. chart is now 5 days old, doesn't include TX but a good indicator of what's happening nation wide

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[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Texas has already surpassed the TOTAL vote from 2016

and the polls don't close until 7 PM. Of course, then we'll add Tuesday. 53.3% of all registered voters have already voted vs 59.4% total voting in 2016. We've added 1.8 Million registered voters since 2016. We've already surpassed the total votes in 2016. I'm hoping our percentage gets up to at least 65%, but all that really matters is that we go blue.

[Blue_playwright]

17. Like my daughter...

...they are showing up and they are pissed.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. How about 2018

That's where we were close but no cigar

[scarletwoman]

9. Why should I believe this? It's just a random tweet from an unknown person with no citation.

Where is the actual source?

[hellno45]

13. Yeah, Being a Yale MBA grad focusing on changing the world for the better

while working as Chief Strategy Officer for the Institute For Education seems a little unqualified, especially when compared to fox news

By the way, he also worked for HRC's campaign as a digital organizer & continues to organize for Democratic causes both online and as a commentator but, here is another source of the Tufts University study

https://www.ksat.com/vote-2020/2020/10/27/the-youth-vote-in-texas-is-up-by-more-than-600-from-last-presidential-election/

[scarletwoman]

16. Well, goody for you that you know who he is.

It's not as though any of that information was in the OP.

But thank you for providing more of a citation than a single tweet.

[Statistical]

10. That seems impossible to believe.

Young voters turnout is traditionally lower but not low enough to support a 600% increase (meaning 7x the baseline). To be clear I have no reason to doubt the youth vote is up just the magnitude is hard to make sense of.

[hellno45]

14. Here is a link to the Tufts study

https://www.ksat.com/vote-2020/2020/10/27/the-youth-vote-in-texas-is-up-by-more-than-600-from-last-presidential-election/

[Statistical]

15. Thanks. So it is only comparing early voting to early voting.

Yeah that makes sense. I was thinking overall voting was 6x 2016 which would be impossible.

[Mersky]

11. Yes! Keep it up young Texans!!!

Vote! Vote! Vote!

Keep it going, y’all! No rest til you’ve cast your vote.

The youth vote in Texas is up by more than 600% from last presidential election
More than 753,000 Texans younger than 30 have voted in the 2020 election, according to study

https://www.ksat.com/vote-2020/2020/10/27/the-youth-vote-in-texas-is-up-by-more-than-600-from-last-presidential-election/