Posted on 03/07/2018 6:18:50 AM PST by RedWing9
More than 1 million voted in Senate Democratic primary, providing a measure of partys energy
WASHINGTONThe 2018 fight for control of Congress began Tuesday, as Texas Democrats flooded the polls for the years first primary election and showed that the national wave of Democratic enthusiasm will buffet even traditionally Republican states.
Statewide turnout in the Senate Democratic primary race provided a measure of the partys energy: More than 1 million voted in the primary, almost double the number in 2014. But Democrats still lagged behind the 1.5 million who voted in the GOP Senate primary.
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The GOP didn’t even have competitive races at the top of the ticket with incumbents running for governor and senator and still voted in significantly larger numbers than the Democrats. The media coverage of this is a joke and obviously a lie that was preconceived and hyped over the airwaves as a narrative regardless of what was actually occurring designed to demoralize Republican voters and donors that all is already lost. In reality, the numbers showed if this is the same “enthusiasm” that occurs during the general election the Democrats will lose in a massive landslide. But they are creating a narrative to try to create a reality that right now doesn’t exist in order to, as stated above, demoralize the GOP base voters and donors.
Democrats are supposed to be fired up and raring to go to get Trump and his supporters, while Republicans are supposedly complacent and somewhat disillusioned - if this is the most threat that poses, ‘rats are in big trouble.....
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