Did you know that 3 counties in Tx. had no primary because they

[napi21]

couldn't afford to have one? I just heard that on the Peter B. Collins Show. He said it was discovered when they did the final vote count and there were 3 counties that returned NO VOTE. After further investigation, they found out that they didn't have any primary election because they couldn't afford one.

[Duke Newcombe]

1. That is not cool...at all...

Wake up state party!!!

duke

[Exilednight]

2. Was it both parties?

[napi21]

6. Yes it was both parties, but from what Peter B. said, it was primarily

Pub counties. I did a google search for Texas no votes, and I found one page that has a description of what's going on there.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/01/politics/main3895907.shtml

It seems there are sparsley populated counties in TX that just don't have anyone to run an election. Weird, huh?

[Breeze54]

3. The TX Dem Party is a bunch of

morons, from everything I've been reading about them. Gheez!!

Were those counties also predominantly poor Mexican-American?

[Exilednight]

5. I also put blame on the DLC and the 17 state strategy...

this is what happens when you don't work at growing the party in red states.

[Breeze54]

8. But Dean was there....

Wasn't he? In those 17 states? :shrug:

[littlebit]

4. That doesn't surprise me

the state democratic party is almost nonexistent in TX.

[nsd]

7. Some counties in West Texas are quite sparsely populated.

They might have decided not to have primaries because there are too few people, not because they're poor.

[thevoiceofreason]

9. The article talks about 3 counties with no dem primary, and 18 with no repub primary

Texas has been a state that doesn't count for more than a decade. There are limited funds and resources. Blame who you might.