Daily Harris County (Houston) Early Vote Recap -- Biggest Day Yet

[thevoiceofreason]

Thursday, February 28, an otherwise non-descript day, set the record for early voting in Harris County.

Yesterday, we early voted 22,459 (I had heard many lines were an hour long). In addition, 2958 mail-in ballots were received. That is a total early vote of 25,417.

That means in one day, Harris County voted 1/3 of its entire democratic primary vote in 2004 (including election day)!

Total vote in Harris County so far (including mail-in ballots returned): 143,169

Get the popcorn!

http://www.harrisvotes.com/

[democrattotheend]

1. Harris County is supposed to be an Obama stronghold, right?

Or am I getting confused?

[Rageneau]

2. How many of these "Democrats" were actually Republicans?

Across the country, turnout for DemTocrats is breaking records while turnout for Republicans has been unusually light.

Are more people coming out to vote Democrat? Are fewer Republicans voting?

My guess is that neither of those things is particularly true.

I do not believe Republicans are staying home. It's not their nature. Republicans ALWAYS want to inflict thei will on everyone else. They aren't staying home, they are pretending to be Democrats in order to vote for Obama in the Democratic primary. And the reason they are doing that is NOT because they want Obama to win, but because they hate Hillary so much, they want her to lose.

IMHO, about 30% of the wild "support" for Obama is actually coming from Hillary-haters who will never vote for Obama in the general election. And these ame wingnut Republicans are poisoning ostensible Democrats with their lies about Hillary, effectively turning Democrats against themselves.