Bad News for Cornyn: Early Voting Numbers Down in Texas (Vanity)

News92FM ^ | February 21, 2014 | Din Maker

[Din Maker]

Bad news for John Cornyn: Early voting down in Texas. Low turnout always benefits the "crawl over glass" Conservatives and die-hards. The first day of voting in Harris County (Houston) Texas was 15,000; and that includes the all mail in ballots that had been received. Now, this total includes those who voted in the Democrat Primary as well as the GOP Primary. You can figure only 50% of the votes were GOP (This is Houston after all.) That's worse news for Cornyn. Only 7,000 GOP in person, and mail, votes in Harris County the first day???? Wow!

On the two opposite sides of the State (East and West) turnout was lower than 2010. Orange County on the extreme East side of Texas had 999 GOP Primary Voters the first TWO days of Early voting. And in the very populated Lubbock County, to the West, early voting numbers the first day was 899 (Dem and GOP TOTAL). Texas always has low voter turnout (48th in the nation.) But, this year it seems it is going to be extremely low if this trend continues. And not helping matters, they are predicting more freezing temps for parts of Texas (even in the southeast portion of the State) for next week; the last days of Early Voting which ends Feb. 28th.

This is good news for our team. Tea Partiers and die-hard Conservatives will get to the polls no matter what. And, in Texas' Primary in 2012, only 16.4 of the voters turned out for the RUN-OFF Election; in which Ted Cruz defeated Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst by 8 percentage points.

I like the way this is looking for our team

[Din Maker]

Stovall may be a surprise to many.
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I pray that he is one of the top two vote getters. I truly believe he is the only chance we have for victory. My reasoning in my Post #16.

[tflabo]

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm pulling for a Stovall/Stockman run-off, with Cornyn not invited to the dance. ;)

/johnny

[tflabo]

I had to early vote since I’m working long distance on march 4th. Stovall got my vote. Out with the phoney RINO backstabber of conservatives. Peed me off when Corny voted for cloture and dumped on fellow Texan Ted Cruz. That other tall phoney John Thune is a major disappointment too.

[Din Maker]

Yeah; I’ve been doing the same thing. A Stockman/Stovall Run-off...... can you say “Senator Stovall”?

[Grams A]

I would suspect that if we can at least get Cornyn involved in a run-off with anyone, the money part will be a lot different than with Dewhurst and Cruz. Washington is not about to turn loose of Cornyn even if they have to empty Fort Knox and run ads 24/7 to get him re-elected. He is just too big a tool for the Democrat party.

Compared to Cornyn, Dewhurst is an unknown.

Our family will never vote for Cornyn again for anything.

[RitaOK]

You mean, not *yet*, I presume.

Let’s just hope the Texas fuse is not already lit one day, BEFORE a suggestion shows up, on how the hell “dire” it is.

I simply hate to play defense, but that’s just me.

[Din Maker]

That other tall phoney John Thune is a major disappointment too.
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Big Time!

[manic4organic]

http://texansforstovall.com/

[JRandomFreeper]

Not so.. The GOP-E simply shoveled money at Dewhurst. He had endorsements from everybody in the GOP-E including Gov. Perry.

Palin endorsed Cruz.

/johnny

[Din Maker]

Compared to Cornyn, Dewhurst is an unknown.
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Hmmmm....... I have to disagree. Dewhurst is an icon in Texas. I can’t stomach the guy, but, he is very well known in Texas. Hell, he’s been around a gazillion years.

[Din Maker]

To All of You who have friends or relatives voting for Cornyn: Make sure you remind them of the Primary on March 5th.

[deport]

You want to keep up with the early voting totals in the top 15 counties in Texas then
go to the following link. It gives both Republican, Democrat, and cumulative
totals for both in person and mail ballots. I wish they showed all the 254 counties
but the top 15 or some 60% of the registered voters.

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/index.shtml

Early voting totals for past years:
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/archive.shtml

[txrefugee]

Yes, but Cornyn has to get over 505 to avoid a run-off.

[dangus]

This kind of analysis led to predictions of a Romney landslide in 2012.

[RitaOK]

Capital idea! :D

[txhurl]

Imagine the headline

Incumbent TX Senator swept out of Primary race, Top Two Challengers in Runoff

[drinktheobamakoolaid]

When it was a 2-man race, Cruz got plenty of money and endorsements. No endorsements from the GOP-E, of course, but they hardly count.

Yep the Cruz victory was awesome. Hopefully Corny is out of there...

[JRandomFreeper]

People are pissed off at Cornyn. It's within the range of possible for that to happen.

/johnny

[txhurl]

I hadn’t even considered it until you brought it up last night.

I’m thinking the GOPe is starting to regret openly declaring war on TEA.