Posted on 02/23/2018 11:30:31 PM PST by Pinkbell
Thanks for the info. That doesn’t sound too bad.
The party in power always loses midterms. The question is how much damage. They are motivated and we should never underestimate that.
Who is that?
In 2002, when GWB was midway through his first term, the GOP picked up 2 senate seats and 8 house seats.
The dynamic is a little different this year in that Trump is seen by many as a "people's" president as opposed to a partisan Republican president. If the economy continues to surge, the same blue collar Democrats from places like PA, MI, WI, OH and IA that helped elect him in 2016 will come out in support of his agenda in 2018 mid-terms.
The Democrat party is quickly becoming the party of cranks, weirdos and haters of America.
I dont trust polls anywhere.. but hispanics have been democrats and sending illegals back might rile a few more..they like the freebies the dems give for their vote.
There’s only a dozen or so counties reported on the secretary of state site. Texas has 254 counties. Granted those shown are predominately demonrat due to the large invader population.
At the end of the day, a Dem is still a big pro-choicer, pro-abortion, that is a big NO from me to any of them.
If the Democrats bent on this issue, who knows. Rin Tin Tin could run against this Beto O’Rourke and win. Texas is changing demographically but will not enough this time in 2018.
Unless, they really fire up the grass roots. Possible.
Verifying but one Texan tells me the D advantage should be double this.
That’s a good sign.
I study your interesting twitter page several times a day, Larry, and if I may be so bold as to post what you quoted...
You mentioned that 2% of Texans have early voted.
You further added that .0002% were GOP and .0003 were dems.
65,000 early votes have been cast, with a D advantage of 7,769.
As you said, the D advantage comes from three counties....El Paso (heavily dem), Hidalgo & Travis.
Travis county is where Austin is located, correct? Berkeley on the prairie.
Fellow Freepers, Mr. Schweikart goes into further detail on his excellent twitter page.
Keep up the good work, sir, I learn a great deal from your twitter posts.
Early voter cheating.
Not sure how to judge this: looks like Dems ran nobodies in the 2014 Senate primary; a LaRouche follower ended up 2nd in the Dem primary that year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas,_2014#Democratic_primary
Not sure how to judge this:
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For what it’s worth in Texas. You don’t register by party.
Come election day you choose which parties primary you want
to vote in and are committed to that. Come the next cycle
you start the process over again. It’s been a few election
cycles since a democrat has won a statewide race. IMO it
won’t change this year.
I have NOT confirmed this, but a Texas Tweeter told me that so far the 7k is about half of what normally turns out early from these counties, that they are really lagging.
I’m in Harris County & haven’t early voted yet but plan to. Still sifting through all the judges - 2 pages worth of candidates & propositions, 4 columns deep so it takes a while.
The only issue I’ve seen much excitement about is the teachers’ retiree medical premiums, deductibles & out-of-pocket costs have gone up & some of the teachers & their families are calling to “block vote them out” meaning those in charge - Gov, Lt. Gov etc.
Saw one FB post of a teacher or supporter voting in the Republican primary so she could vote for the challengers to the incumbent Gov & Lt. Gov. So if the D turnout is much higher than the R turnout, not much of that is happening, which IMO is a good thing.
What is your concern for the Fl house district in Florida? That election is already over. Margaret Good (D) already won.
It was a red district, the R wasn’t horrible, and the turnout was high.
Not surprising democrats are leveraging their strength. Most election fraud is mail-in, not at the polls.
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