Posted on 02/23/2018 11:30:31 PM PST by Pinkbell
Early voting data from Texas is just bonkers. % change over 2014:
Democrats: 70% Republicans: 8%
This is the first midterm since 2006 when Democrats are casting more early ballots than Republicans.
(This is from the Texas SOS, and there are a couple of graphs present.)
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
The key question is: is there something in common with the lost seats? Are these Nevertrumpers losing their seats because GOPers won’t vote for them?
Whats this one?
I don’t understand what early voting is, I live in Washington anyway.
Josh
@joshreyes007
Replying to @gelliottmorris
SOS site has Tarrant Co. messed up btw
I’d also like to point out that in 2008 Democrats demolished the GOP in the primaries only to lose every statewide office in the fall.
By the end of early voting in 08:
R: 303,338
D: 890,118
10:52 AM · Feb 23, 2018
Your link takes you to some liberals tweet. He did post a graph with a link but I followed it and that graph is not shown.
Try this:
https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/2018/feb22.shtml
Democrats are motivated, Republicans are not.
If Trumps wants to avoid impeachment, he better be active in the midterm campaigns. If the Democrats take congress, he will be impeached...and there will be plenty of GOPe congressmen to go along with them.
Re: State legislature GOP seats down 37 in past year
I’ll guess there are at least 5,000 (at just 100 per state) total state legislature seats.
37 is less than a 1% flip.
The equivalent for the U.S. Congress would be a 4 seat flip out of 535.
The GOP party didnt’ want and never have and never want Trump to win. They want him out and taking Congress is the key.
Ping
No.. 35 lost as of now, including 17 House of Delegates seats in Virginia. The dems are lusting for the chance to kick our asses in November, and it’s showing in these special and off-year elections.
If a globalist RINO loses to a Democrats is that really a loss?
In a Machiavellian kind of way if the Democrats try to impeach Pres. Trump that may be the catalyst needed to kick off Civil War II which is WAY over due.
This is primaries and local issues.
Trees have to drink too.
I hope people see too, how important it is to get the base out.
I’ve read people say “we can’t allow an extra 1,000,000 votes that will be all Democrat”, I totally agree with this but at the same time, it’s obvious that the sit-at-homes could change most elections. Alabama and the Moore/Jones race is a good example.
If you get your base out or as the media says “energize your voting base”, you might be able to win.
And remember too that R's overwhelmingly own these seats, so a small number of dem wins look big on a percentage basis. 100 % of 1 is 1 but only equals 2.
All said, however, it is not to be ignored.
State employees voting to keep their pension and bennies gravy train chugging along nicely. That’s the way it works in my Upstate NY neck of the woods. Public employees are most of the turn outs in these state and local races.
I can’t speak for all of Texas, but the only reason that I would even bother voting early this year as a Republican, based on the ballot that I got, is to get rid of Bush Grandson, who needs to find a new line of work. Nothing else competitive. None of the other races (statewide and local, where I live) have any competition.
I suspect that the Democrat ticket is more competitive.
“100 % of 1 is 1 but only equals 2.”
What kind of new math is that?
Early voting should be banned, it reeks of fraudulent voting.
Correct.....look at Venezuela.
Says the never Trumper
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