Posted on 10/30/2020 7:35:11 AM PDT by Coronal
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016, an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the countrys most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.
More than 9 million ballots have been cast as of Friday morning in the nations second most-populous state, exceeding the 8,969,226 cast in 2016, according to an Associated Press tally of early votes from data provided by Texas officials.
Texas is the first state to hit the milestone. This years numbers were aided by Democratic activists challenging in court for, and winning, the right to extend early voting by one week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sad but true.
Much of the moving to Texas is to reduce corporate expenditures by moving from Cali to either Nevada or Texas. This way they can pay employees wages that the employee can live on. So, the Cali lower level employees relocate to NV or TX and bring their voting habits with them.
Didn’t San Antonio strike it big from just this topic? And isn’t San Antonio now solid blue?
TX 2020 General Election Early & Absentee Vote Report
That is what I am afraid of. If Texas was an issue though Trump would be traveling there and doing rallies so fingers crossed Texas stays RED.
But the Latinos who have been here for generations, at least are most socially conservative, and they cannot be comfortable with the new radical Democratic Party. Even Ma Richards wouldn’t have a place in today’s Texas Democratic Party.
Do not pray for miracles. Depend upon them.
The future for Texas, should Harris/Biden ticket prevail nationally, is stark indeed. Texas was once an independent nation, and very well, could be again.
But Trump losing in Texas? There are just three chances that will happen - fat, slim and none.
TargetSmart has developed a proprietary partisanship classification model to determine the likely political affiliation of a voter. This predictive model is trained using survey data and incorporates various data points such as vote history, party affiliation (where available), consumer interests, and demographic information to make a prediction of how likely a person is to align with the Democratic party. Those marked as Unaffiliated did not fall into a score range where we could make a confident prediction of affiliation.
The partisan model was constructed using over 56,000 survey respondents, both over the phone and online. Model scores are expressed from 0-100, representing the probability that a person identifies as a Democrat. The model was used to score over 256 million voting age persons nationwide.
This is the company that does NBC data.
I think a lot of them are fake and for Biden. There have been some stories on massive voter fraud.
Total
And it’s telling that the Democrats aren’t even talking about immigration anymore.
When Trump said, “Who Built The Cages, Joe?” that pretty much ended that whole conversation, the Rats know it’s a loser for them.
So 1.4 million more votes than residents?
Do not pray for miracles. Depend upon them.
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Very obviously “Total”
Using pre common core math.
EZ PZ for those who were skooled before 1970.
I guess that is what happens when you make TV ads begging Californians to move to your state
No way this unprecedented enthusiasm is favoring Biden. We see this everywhere, everyday.
350 EVs +/-
If it signifies an enthusiasm gap..... agreed.
I don’t know what other states have had vote-by-mail for years, but those would be interesting comparisons as well.
This predictive model is trained using survey data and incorporates various data points such as vote history, party affiliation (where available), consumer interests, and demographic information to make a prediction of how likely a person is to align with the Democratic party.
This is why we dont respond or dont respond truthfully.
Thank you
The folks in my city who moved from California have voted already in early voting and the ones that I know all voted for Trump. They loved their state but, hated the government there and love it here.
A big tip-off: watch who is campaigning there. Nobody. Joe Biden would be living in the state if it was at all possible to grab it.
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Exactly. If a state as big as Texas was even close to “flippable”, the Biden campaign would pour resources in.
Great post on Oregon.
The dirty little secret of this election is that Biden is the weakest Democratic candidate in decades, and many Democrats are not very enthusiastic about him.
That will mean that the Democratic turnout will be the lowest in several elections, and that brings states like Oregon within reach of the President.
The mass media _never_ admits low turnout, particularly with Democrats. That is one reason they never saw the Hillary collapse in the Rust Belt in 2016 until after the fact.
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