Texas Update

[thevoiceofreason]

(As I do my daily burn of one thread a day on the awesome voter turnout in Texas in 2008)

Through Tuesday (Day 8 of the 11 day early voting period):

Texas Early Vote (for the top 15 counties only), including mail-in votes actually returned: 511,809

The entire democratic vote in 2004, early and regular, was 839,231.

The 15 largest counties are estimated to account for about 5/8 of the vote, so if we expand that current early vote number (and there is no reason to think that the hinterlands are voting any less if the tales I hear are true -- for example, Longhorn standing in line 30 minutes to vote early in Dripping Springs!)by 8/5, then the current Texas early vote, with 3 days of early voting left (not to mention the dad-gummed regular voting day), is basically equal to the entire vote from 2004.

(For my math-challenged friends) 511,809 X 8/5 = 818,894

Hats off Texas! Let's triple our highest historic primary vote totals and get 2.5 million Texans to the polls for a primary!

Watch out repubs -- I'm seeing some purple!

Current:

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/2008/feb26demo.shtml

2004:

http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe

[southern_belle]

1. Awesome!

:patriot:

[grantcart]

2. great thank you

[City Lights]

3. Wow! That's impressive!

:toast: Thanks for posting.

[catgirl]

4. Wow! That's amazing....nearly 1 million votes already!

K & R

[UALRBSofL]

5. Can a Texas Democratic turnout beat the Florida turnout?

We(Florida) had almost 2 million democrats vote on Jan 29th and that was without any campaigning of candidates. I want to see if Texas can beat our turnout. :)

[thevoiceofreason]

7. Here's to hoping so

And we used to be such a blue state. Carter was the last democrat we voted for for President.

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup:

[elixir]

8. Great. Texans taking charge of their vote.