Texas Primary Early Voter Increase 2004-2008
Top 13 Texas counties (h/t Burnt Orange Report) percentage increase from 2004 in early voting.
2004 = 154,840
2008 = 867,547
% early voting increase (2008 divided by 2004) = 560.3%
Just by the by: in all of the political analysis of this primary season, nobody ever seems to factor in the incredible increases, the influx of young voters, of independent voters, of voters who hadn’t formerly been interested in elections. And the outrageous differential between Democratic primary voters and Republican primary voters.
In Washington, D.C. during the “Potomac Primaries” the Democratic voter numbers were in six figures; the GOP primary voter turnout was in the extreme low end of FIVE figures.
Which is why all those “surveys of likely voters” aren’t taking an accurate picture of the true nature of things.
New wine in old skins, as the verse goes.
We’ll see what happens tonight, when all is said and done.
After the blizzard of BS of the last week, a little certitude, a little actual denouement will come as a welcome change.
Oh, and don’t take any wooden nickels.
Courage.
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UPDATE – 7:49 PM PST: Corrected % above (got the danged decimal point in the wrong place — 5,603 instead of 560.3 — rookie mistake). According to MSNBC exit polling, one THIRD of the Democratic voters in the Texas primary were Republicans and Independents. Indies were breaking 55-40% for Obama but Republicans were breaking about the same for Obama. Sorry Rush.
7:52 PM PST: MSNBC calls Ohio for Hillary Clinton “the junior senator from New York.” So, it’s Clinton Ohio and Rhode Island, and Obama Vermont. Texas is still undecided.
UPDATE - Wednesday, 10:00 AM PST: Now, it appears that Rush Limbaugh DID, in fact, game the results, according to several sources. Here and here.
