Haven’t bothered to read the story, because the numbers from the official state tallies tell you all you need to know: Ted Cruz got more votes in the GOP primary than all the Democrats combined.
The predicted Blue Wave in Texas looks more like a tiny swell, at best. But Ted is running hard and on offense—a good position for any GOP incumbent to take this year.
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Don’t tell me Republicans won’t show up.
in most districts the dum turnout sucked compared to repub turnout
This is exactly WHY the Dems have gone over-the-edge with hyperbolic claims that Trump is Hitler and his Presidency presents the single biggest threat to life on Earth.
They need to keep their lemmings filled with fear and constantly thinking that the next election could be a Mass Extinction Event. Only way to get them off the couch and out to the polling booth.
Governor race history for Texas
1994 Primary Election
Reps 555,338
Dems 1,027,676
1998 Primary Election
Reps 596,839
Dems 654,154
2002 Primary Election
Reps 620,463
Dems 1,003,388
2006 Primary Election
Reps 655,919
Dems 508,602
2010 Primary Election
Reps 1,484,542
Dems 680,548
Race Total
2014 Primary Election
Reps 1,337,875
Dems 554,014
Does not look like TX is turning blue but redder.
True - but the WSJ wants to try to rally the Dems...
Their boy “Beto” or whatever the hell his silly name is, did no better against two no names than Wendy Davis in her primary, and she was crushed in the general. If they want to get excited about that, let them.
Bull$hit: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3637878/posts
Specifically, from that post:
“That myth was generated by media outlets like the Dallas Morning News and the web-based Texas Tribune looking only at early voting numbers coming in from the state’s big cities, where Democrats tend to do their best in a state in which their party has not won a statewide election since 1994. Turns out that when you look at the voting totals from the entire state, including all those rural areas where Republicans dominate, the results from yesterday’s primaries look pretty similar to how they’ve looked for the past quarter of a century.
Per the Texas Secretary of State’s official election returns, Democrat turnout was just 6.79% overall, despite the record number of early votes. As is always the case with Texas Democrats, they just don’t show up to cast votes in person on Election Day. Meanwhile, GOP turnout was 10.10%, and the total votes cast in statewide races for Republicans out-paced the vote totals for Democrats by roughly 1.5 million to 1.0 million.
If those ratios hold firm come November, they translate to basically the same 60/40 GOP advantage in statewide races that the Republicans have won every four years since 1994. In other words, there won’t be any “blue wave” coming to Texas, or anywhere else for that matter, come November. But hey, you can’t blame the fake news media for giving it the old college try – that’s what they think they’re in business to do.
God Bless Texas.
Just another day in the only wave in Texas is a big ol’ red one America.
God Bless Texas.
That is all.”
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.....