Posted on 03/07/2018 5:47:16 PM PST by Jim Robinson
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) received more votes in the 2018 Republican Primary election than the entire turnout of voters in the Democratic Primary. The results shed a new perspective on the media-hyped “blue wave” stories from the weeks leading up to election day. In the Republican Primary of 2018, Senator Cruz received 1,317,450 votes in a race with four challengers. His Democrat opponent, U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke only received 641,311 votes against two opponents.
Figures from the Secretary of State’s office show that just over one million voters turned out in the Democratic Primary in general across Texas. Cruz alone exceeded the entire Democratic voter turnout by nearly 300,000 votes.
Last week, Texas Secretary of State Spokesman Sam Tayler told Breitbart Texas that in normal gubernatorial primary elections, about 10 percent of registered voters turn out in the Republican primary and five percent in the Democratic primary. At that time, he predicted, based on early voting numbers, that Democrats would match the Republican’s 10 percent turnout. Instead, Democrats fell short on election day. Republican voters slightly exceeded their normal voter turnout with about 11 percent of registered voters coming to their polls. Democrats also raised their turnout, but only to 6.8 percent arrived.
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Russia I tell ya, Russian involvement, CNN drooling (hey hope).
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Russia and Republican both begin with “R”. Coincidence? I think notski!
2014 was only so low for the dems because Abortion Barbie was running unopposed in the Primary. “the Double” turn out in 2018 for dems means nothing and it definitely isn’t because of Trump.
The Dems didn’t have anything to vote for in 2014. In 2018 they had a mainstream “conservative” dem vs. a open borders Lesbian. That brings out the dems.
If Abortion Barbie was running against an NRA loving, Joe Manchin style, old school Texas democrat in 2014, 1M would have turned out in the Dem Primary. Abortion Barbie still would have won and then lost the General.
Would have been nice if Bret Baier’s show reported this instead of “Chaos at the White House!!!”
NO!! Tell your 'friend' only in this case....and, only for the Senate....to avoid losing a seat to Dems/NoBeto.
Okay, amigo?
As long as he stays focused on being a Senator from Texas.
Just wait - CNN will roll it into something.
I always sensed that the Enemedia was overhyping what was going on in Texas. I figured out months ago that the Left is pouring money into select places in order to create a narrative of momentum. And of course, their media stooges only publish cherry-picked factoids.
But I now worry that I will miss any genuine indicators that the Democriminals are on the come-back.
Cruz is going to win easily.
I had long believed that TCruz is vulnerable to the Democrat whom many say reminds them of a Kennedy. Maybe that is not the case. Still it is hard to read too much in 6.8 and 11 percent turnouts. But I am thinking that Cruz will win: the margin may be fairly large. Governor Abbott should also defeat either of the Democrats in the runoff against him.
I had long believed that TCruz is vulnerable to the Democrat whom many say reminds them of a Kennedy. Maybe that is not the case. Still it is hard to read too much in 6.8 and 11 percent turnouts. But I am thinking that Cruz will win: the margin may be fairly large. Governor Abbott should also defeat either of the Democrats in the runoff against him.
Wait for the May 22 primary runoff elections. There will probably be less than 100,000 republicans turn out for that election while the Democrats will probably have about the same numbers as on Tuesday.
People turn out to vote when there is someone to vote for. On the republican side, Tuesday’s election saw incumbents in statewide offices running unopposed or with only token opposition. With the exception of about three congressional seats, they were all relatively uncontested or in the few districts where democrats win without republican opposition.
Republicans will turn out in November when there is a reason to vote.
Darn you beat me to it.
To read AP’s take on yesterday’s Texas primary, the Democrats cleaned up...
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Senator Cruz won by about 1.4 million votes in 2012 and was running against a underfunded Sadler from Marshall Texas, Cruz will win easily this time around also but not near the 1.4 million vote margin. Of the 4 congressional seats that the dimwits think they can over turn only one is truely up for grab and that is Hurds district and even that will be one the GOP can win.
If you notice that the REP vote has steadily climbed from 555,338 to 1,540,296, whereas the DEM vote veers around wildly. That means that one party is stable and reliable and the other is not.
I have a good friend who used to be an active Texas democrat. He served on state-wide committees including the party conventions. He was on the TX state platform committee and he witnessed something that made him think twice about his involvement.
He was made to understand that the democratic party does not like straight white men and they did everything they could to push him out. Another democrat friend experienced pretty much the same thing. Both these guys are now voting Republican and are also yuge Trump fans.
You drawed first. My cowboy hat fell in the mud.
Here are all the official Texas results for those who are statistically inclined.
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/texas/
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