Posted on 03/07/2018 5:20:03 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Democrats across the country were getting a collective thrill up their leg about the coming “blue wave” that was about to break over Texas. Some early-voting numbers had Dems all excited.
And then the election happened. And it’s true that a political party set a Texas record yesterday for the number of voters going to the polls in a primary. Just one teensy little problem for Texas Dems: it was the Republican party. Democrats turned out in solid-but-not-record-breaking numbers. Overall, Republicans swamped Dem turnout by about half-a-million votes. Republican votes cast beat Dem votes by a ratio of 60/40.
On today’s Morning Joe, after election maven Steve Kornacki broke the bad news, Joe Scarborough had to concede:
“Looks like a lot of those reports about a big ‘blue wave’ coming in Texas: once again, overhyped.”
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“Americans will never let the Democrats steal their country...”
The problem is that millions of non-Americans in the country might!
Actually the hype probably backfired, piss Texans to get out and vote in numbers usually not seen in this type of election. I passed polling stations that were pretty full yesterday which I never see on on these type of elections.
#FakeNews
It’s what CNN/MSNBC/NYTimes/WaPost do.
Trump is winning stories don’t result in clicks by Trumpnuts. However he is trolling Trumpnuts with inflammatory headlines implying Trump lost and that is generating the clicks.
Drudge must have visits and clicks.
The mid-term election turnout may still be the biggest ever in TX; that may have been the reference to “blue wave” that all the Cruz backstabbers who don’t like Trump to begin with are boasting about: http://ap.stripes.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEXAS_PRIMARY_TXOL-?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2018-03-07-08-28-38
Trump most pro-life president ever? Get penalized at some pro-Cruz forums for saying that. I’d support the GOP period.
Jeepers, I’d be sorry to hear (snort) that Mueller got hauled to the woodshed after Texas.
Obama and Chuckie musta reamed him out.
“You have to try harder if we’re gonna get control.
Now get back to do the job....or else no more $150,000 paychecks.”
I’m sure Scarborough is crushed that he can’t blame the supposed demise of the GOP on Trump this morning.
aka, More Fake News. We’re getting very used to the drumbeat and assurance of the demise of Trumpism, multiple promises of silver bullets, and unending October surprises, followed by seeing the media fall on its face into its own feces. Very entertaining.
Their policies are nation killing and the people have caught on to them.
Good bye and good riddance!
D you later!
Pray for voter ID cards nationwide and watch the Rats scurry out of Washington.
Yes...the “press” are basically wannbe propagandists. They only fool really dumb people after some time!
Are you kidding me? I listed to ABC radio, and their “news” of the day was the big democrat numbers in TX for their primary. Not a word about GOP turnout.
FOX needs to hire Steve Kornacki away from MSNBC... in 15 years Kornacki could have the same ‘trust’ level as Walter Cronkite at his peak...
(and yeah, I know he’s not a conservative)
LOL - And once again ABC was wrong....
Maybe he will see the light and think about becoming a RINO again.
Good idea. Kornacki really is the best at this stuff. And agreed, he’s no conservative, but fair.
for a primary it is very good.
Now is not the time to get complacent, however....
I don’t think it was over-hyped... it just isn’t enough.
Hopefully this is a good sign for the rest of the country.
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