Posted on 10/30/2020 6:59:15 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris County saw record-breaking voter turnout during the first three days of early voting, and this week exceeded registered voter turnout from previous elections.
On the 12th and final day of early voting in 2016, only 43.7% of registered voters cast a ballot either by mail or in person. As of Thursday night, about 55% of registered voters in Harris County cast a ballot with just one more day of early voting left, according to the county's unofficial totals.
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Ping.
And it doesn’t hurt that the crypto-Lesbian M.J. Hegar running against John Cornyn is running the most irritating adverts you can imagine.
There are not many things less attractive than a fat, middle-aged woman on a Harley.
Houston Ping
Goes with what I saw on the Harris Votes website for voting locations and estimated wait times during the first week of voting. Where lines were very long was heavily outside the Beltway on the NW side between the Beltway and the Grand Parkway, Cypress, Spring, Tomball, Jersey Village.
I will correct myself a bit: there are some Democrat-leaning areas with big turnout, such as West U, Montrose, and the Heights. But while those areas are known for their hipster liberals, they are not nearly as heavily Democrat as many think. They are actually light blue to light red, if you look at the 2016 results.
The turnout is all is upper-income areas. In Houston, that is good for Republicans.
Thanks for the ping. Intriguing. The number of early voters in TX now exceeds the total election tally from 2016. You gotta wonder if this is significant. I know Trump has big GOTV efforts in the swing states. The question is if he’s at least matched the Dems’ GOTV efforts in TX. I hope so. Would be kind of lame to win the swing states and then lose TX. Essentially what he succeeded into doing to Hillary in 2016 - come at her from a completely unexpected direction.
The other reason this is good news: I’ve heard a couple troubling stories about potential voter fraud, and the County government is doing everything it can to pump Democrat turnout. But if there was widespread voter fraud or illegal voting, there would be increased turnout in the poor Democrat areas, not reduced.
Harris County (Houston) Texas may be exactly where they plan to steal the election.
MILLIONS of votes from a city with less than 50% whites or typical Texans.
The liberal talking heads were all over it last Saturday morning.
They are salivating over the possible headline that Kamala delivered Texas.
Eagles Up.
I share the concern, but the increased turnout is all in the white areas. Turnout is down in the black and hispanic areas.
It’s hard to say with “drive up” voting, who knows who they are and where they are from,locally anyway.
Good thinking, but the maps show where the voters live, not where they voted.
I hope you’re right, of course, but the LT Governor who has been predicting an outright slam dunk victory just changed his tone yesterday, to one that admitted the possibility...
Dems have been overselling their chances of turning Texas blue. That is scaring the Republicans to turn out in droves. At least that would be my guess.
Setting the stage to provide cover for the potential shock victory, that was actually due to fraud? It would be part of that particular playbook.
Maybe something similar to below is taking place:
alh
@alh85121148
Replying to
@Redistrict
I was phone-banking for PA Dems yesterday and we have about 30% of Dems that I called going for Trump.
9:42 AM · Oct 30, 2020·Twitter Web App
“The Democrats have just decided this election, Mark, we don't have to pay attention to any laws. We're gonna use COVID as an excuse to steal the election, and that's what they're trying to do everywhere,” Patrick, a Republican, said during a radio interview on “The Mark Davis Show.” “If the president loses Pennsylvania or North Carolina, Mark, or Florida, they'll lose it because they stole it.”
I think that’s a strong possibility. Now, that talk has been around for as long as I can remember, but 2018 gave it some gravity.
That would be about right. Trump’s rallies have featured those numbers mentioned especially in Penn.
I would actually add another 10% for the number of Dems who did vote for Trump but are afraid to admit it and lied and said they voted for Biden just to make the get-out-the-vote calls to them to stop.
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