Posted on 03/06/2014 7:15:39 AM PST by pwatson
7% of Rs voted against repealing zerocare (!): those were the RAT crossover votes that Cornyn enjoyed.
In Texas, your party affiliation is determined in the primary election. If you voted in the Republican Primary, your voter card is stamped “Republican” and you are on the master voter list as a Republican until the next primary when you vote again two years from then. So, a Democrat at heart who voted in the Republican Primary, cannot vote in the Democrat run-off as he/she is now officially a Republican. The person would have to vote in the Republican run-off or the person can't vote in the run-off.
Hard core Democrats know how the system works and they don't want to have Republican stamped by their name, so most would not vote in the Republican Primary. They also know if they vote Republican in the primary, it makes the reporting number of Republicans in the state larger and they don't want that.
ALSO, the effect of a Democrat voting in the Republican Primary and the Democrat state convention: A Democrat who votes in the Republican Primary is then a Republican and the person cannot go to the state Democrat convention. Only those who vote in the Democrat Primary may go to a Democrat state convention.
One year, I read the Texas Democrat website about their upcoming state convention. I copied that and still have it saved on my computer because it was gross. On the application to go to their state convention, you had to choose if you were “straight”, “gay”, or “transgender”, think lesbian choice was also there, as it said they wanted to have an equal representation of all life style choices at their convention. They were going to go through the applications and make sure they chose enough of each sex group to have equal representation.
This was in 2004 because I just opened that file on my computer. Here is their “2004 Texas Democrat Party Rules and Platform” relating to their convention goals (this is not the application):
“Summary of Representation Goals:
African American 52 delegates
Hispanic 72 delegates
Asian American 1 delegate
Native American 1 delegate
b. To continue the Democratic Party’s ongoing efforts to include groups historically under-represented in the Democratic Party’s affairs, priority of consideration shall also be given to other groups by virtue of race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation or disability.”
I wrote an article about that for our county Republican newsletter. I wrote an article every month as the secretary of the party and I was the one who published and mailed the newsletter. I poised a question in that article wondering what a person should choose if he/she was about to undergo a sex change operation before the convention started. Should such a person choose the sex he/she was then or wait until after the operation and choose the other sex choice designation.
I also said if Republicans had to fill out a form like that to go to their convention, they would probably show up with a shotgun and dare anyone to make them list their sexual orientation.
That was in 2004, I wonder what the sexual orientation rules are now? They are likely on that state website just as they were in 2004.
Thanks for the link, bud :-)
I’ll be checking it daily.
I guess what I don't know is the number of registered Dems vs. Reps in Texas. It just seems to me that when the Republican primary vote was 3x the Dem the press is ignoring the actual numbers of the results. Did the Dems stay home, or is the ratio of Democrats to Republicans accurately represented by the primary turnout?
Of course, I am in Floriduh, where we have our own problems. However, our daughter lives in Houston, and perhaps I'll be living out my elderly years there to be near her.
Contrary to people who say Texas is turning blue, in this primary we kicked out more liberal type Republicans out of state government in our House and Senate and in those places we elected Tea Party types. We get more ultra conservative every year, so the naysayers are wrong when they say we are turning blue. Generally, these are people NOT from Texas who hear the liberals say they are turning us blue. Don't believe Democrats - look at the primary election results and the general election when that happens.
The numbers: I studied Texas election number trends for ten years. Historically, Republicans outnumber Democrat voters in every primary. There are three reasons why this happens:
1. All state offices are held by Republicans (there might be a Democrat judge somewhere). Democrats know they aren't going to get elected to these state offices because they are so outnumbered. This makes for a lower Democrat turnout in primaries because it doesn't matter who the Democrat candidates turn out to be, they will be defeated in November.
2. The rank and file Democrats tend to not know who their representatives are and don't care. They only care to vote in a presidential general election so they can vote for a Democrat president. This is not a presidential year so they won't vote. Certainly there are Democrats who vote but their numbers are way short of Republicans.
3. Republicans tend to vote in every election whether it is city election or school board election, or water utility election, or county election, or district election, or state election or presidential election. They are more informed, generally, than Democrats in this state. More Republicans show up than Democrats.
People from the outside looking in, say Texas is turning blue due to Democrats in Houston, Austin, and Dallas. They should add El Paso to that list as it is heavy Democrat unless they have started changing and I doubt it. However, Texas is REALY BIG, and we don't all live in those cities, plus they do have Republicans there who make damn sure they vote. I never thought Corpus Christi would turn Republican, but they are doing that. If you don't speak Spanish there, you won't be able to communicate with a lot of people, yet, Republicans are winning there now.
So, your best way to know how many Democrats and Republicans there are in Texas, is to look on the Secretary of State's website at the total numbers of Democrats and Republican in the last presidential election - November, 2012:
Mitt Romney Rep 4,569,843
Barack Obama Dem 3,308,124
If that election was held today, Obama would lose votes as even Democrats are fed up with him. If a conservative Republican runs for president next time, instead of a Romney type, there will be more Republican votes.
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