Some Texas Early Voting Day 1 stats, by county - 2012 vs 2016

[Lisa0825]

Courtesy of Glen Maxey:

County - 2012 - 2016
Harris - 47,093 - 67,471
Dallas - 32,266 - 58,337
Tarrant - 30,137 - 43,149
Bexar - 30,087 - 35,431
Travis -16,378 - 35,066
Collin -16,531 - 31,283
El Paso - 8,243 - 15,125
Denton - 12,300 - 16,963
Fort Bend 13,264 - 18,180
Hidalgo - 11,977 - 18,526
Montgomery 9,152 - 12,480
Williamson - 9,263 -18,103
Nueces - 4,919 - 6,088
Galveston - 7,446 - 11,022
Cameron - 4,027 - 6,581
Total - 253,083 - 393,805

[PearliePoo2]

1. Whoa! That's encouraging! (I hope it's significant Dems voting)

(change your headline to 2012 vs 2016?)

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Early voting is breaking records in Texas’ 10 biggest counties

Article here:

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/25/early-voting-breaking-records-texas-10-biggest-cou/

Considering most cities in Texas are blue, this is great news. Travis County is Austin and their number is more than DOUBLE what it was in 2012.

[snooper2]

4. Add me to Collin County Day 2 early voting

[TexasProgresive]

5. One scares me

Deep red Williamson county, 9,263 -18,103. Nearly a 100% difference.

[LeftInTX]

10. Add Collin and Montgomery to the list

[Persondem]

6. Just maybe, maybe .... The Kraken has awoken and is finally about to take down the

GOP in the Lone Star State.

In this case Kraken = Hispanic and the "why should I bother" Democratic vote.

[LeftInTX]

8. Some of those are solid Dem

Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Travis, El Paso, Hidalgo, Cameron were blue in 2012.

(Harris and Bexar were close)

The rest of them voted R.

Collin, Denton, Galveston, Montgomery, Williamson were strongly R (60+ percent for Romney)


(Don't want to sound like a party pooper)

[SaschaHM]

9. Now that Texas could go Blue or be close...

is going to motivate a lot of Dems to show up and vote.

[JCMach1]

12. Voted in Collin Country on Day 2

Straight Dems and opposed every Republican when there weren't Dems with the Lib candidate...