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 party’s energy
WASHINGTON—The 2018 fight for control of Congress began Tuesday, as Texas Democrats flooded the polls for the year’s 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 party’s 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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Every time the news promotes Democrat enthusiasm it just makes me and my friends more enthusiastic about voting, so, thanks.
Record Republican turnout in Texas.
I was looking at the results of the congressional districts that the dimwits think they can flip and 3 out of 4 had more republicans vote than did the dimwits. Only Hurd could be in jeopardy but that may be a misnomer because he really had nobody running against him. Cruz won in 2012 by 1.4 million votes, he will not get that this time but should win by 7 or 8 hundred thousand as republican interest will again peek with the Nov elections.
This stuff often backfires on the left. They motivate in places they can’t win and encourage “safe” state voters to stay home. And it all enables gop to get out and vote everywhere to stop the left.
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.
Similar scenario is shaping up in Mississippi, which will now have two senate races this fall, with the pending retirement of Thad Cochran (Roger Wicker, the incumbent holding the other seat should cruise to victory).
The contest to replace Cochran will pit a conservative (Chris McDaniel) against a member of the GOP-E. McDaniel is already running against Wicker in the primary, but is keeping his options open and I think he will probably switch to the open race. Meanwhile, there’s talk about Governor Phil Bryant stepping down and having his successor appoint him to the seat.
McDaniel is a firebrand who has made plenty of enemies in the GOP establishment. He ran against Cochran in 2014 and his supporters exposed some dirty laundry in the incumbents closet; namely, Cochran was living with one of his female staffers while his wife was parked in a nursing home, in the final stages of her battle with dementia. McDaniel’s supporters even posted a video of Mrs. Cochran in the nursing home on-line, a move that probably cost him the election.
The Dims and elements within the GOP-E are praying McDaniel stays in the race so they can give him the Roy Moore treatment. Meanwhile, the Dims have already found their Mississippi version of Doug Jones in Mike Espy, Sr., the former congressman and agriculture secretary under Bill Clinton.
It’s gonna be wild in the Magnolia State. Again.
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Don’t tell me Republicans won’t show up.
in most districts the dum turnout sucked compared to repub turnout
Unfortunately, American history shows no shortage of fools... (i.e. 0b0z0, 2 terms...)
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.
The WSJ is and always has been just like the NYT. The WSJ op/ed page editors and columnists are conservative.
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.
In 2012 Cruz was running against Obola. In 2018 he was running for OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP. He won more votes in 2018 than 2012. FANTASTIC jobs by Cruz and Trump, both good guys.
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.”
Globalist rag.
Yup, Rush said today that they're blaming the Russians for the Conservative win in Italy.
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