Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
This is significant. In 2018, Republicans only turned out 1.5 million votes in the primary, with Governor Abbott on the ballot. The Democrats turned out 1 million voters, the same amount that they did last night. That's an increase of 500,000 energized Republican voters.
Things are looking great for the Republican Party, this fall!
I have a different take on your exuberance for the Texas Republican Party Gubernatorial voting.
Fully 1/3 of Texas Republicans came to the polls to state they are unhappy with Abbott (the incumbent). Abbot got in the mid 60's (66.4%) percentile of votes. The Dems candidate got over 90% of Dem voters.
So the take off of this is the Dems are more energized. Abbott is really only interested in POTUS. Here is what I posted on the Texas C-D page:
" All Governor Grabbit . . . errrr . . . Abbott did was follow DeSantis lead on everything because he was polling so poorly as a potential POTUS president among members of his party. DeSantis was 2nd (to Trump) in the same poll while Abbott was < 0.1% . The man is not a leader with his own ideas. "
Thus Abbott swerves Right to grab the Conservatives. But make no mistake that he presided over lockdowns for months, hurting Texas' businesses and Texans. He stood by while Texas and Dallas hairdresser reopened her business due to being out of money for food and was subsequently jailed in Dallas County. He is a creep politician and not a real man of substance nor vision!
Abbott inspires me, as a Texas loving conservative about as much as a dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high, high, heaven ! At best he is a RINO and if Texas was more Left he'd probably be a Dem. But he's tied his hopes on the Repubs so he goes about his act on our side of the isle. He's a Mitt Romney, John McCain type !
Abbott has a huge warchest of cash. He'll defeat the criminal Beto O'Rourke easily despite millions in outside the state monies coming into the Dem race, and is definitely better for Texas than Beto. I'll hold my nose and vote against Beto but not for Abbott. This is straight out of the Karl Rove playbook.
How many early voters got disqualified because they didn't dot the I or cross the T?
As someone pointed out -- most of the time it is the older voters. And the problem with that is that they are more likely not to have the resources to fight the system to get the new ID. Transportation, technology, physical capacity all impair their ability.
I do believe over time many of the obstacles to getting some of the more stringent ID's will wane as the aging population dies out but right now...the lower income, elderly are the most likely to be impacted by the strict requirements. EVERY state that has implemented those stricter VOTER ID laws knows that and does nothing to facilitate in the processing of elderly, lower income individuals to get their ID. It does seem like they are trying to 'stop' them from voting even if that really isn't the case.
This is significant. In 2018, Republicans only turned out 1.5 million votes in the primary, with Governor Abbott on the ballot. The Democrats turned out 1 million voters, the same amount that they did last night. That's an increase of 500,000 energized Republican voters.
Things are looking great for the Republican Party, this fall!
With all the voter harvesting that republicans don't seem to want to do, they will need all the votes they can get because future elections are going to be heavy in Zuckerbergs paying people to go around door to door harvesting ballots in large blue cities, along with making midnight dumps of ballots just like they fly in the midnight flights of immigrants.
As someone pointed out -- most of the time it is the older voters. And the problem with that is that they are more likely not to have the resources to fight the system to get the new ID. Transportation, technology, physical capacity all impair their ability.
I do believe over time many of the obstacles to getting some of the more stringent ID's will wane as the aging population dies out but right now...the lower income, elderly are the most likely to be impacted by the strict requirements. EVERY state that has implemented those stricter VOTER ID laws knows that and does nothing to facilitate in the processing of elderly, lower income individuals to get their ID. It does seem like they are trying to 'stop' them from voting even if that really isn't the case.
I love the argument that older Americans don’t have ID. Apparently they’ve made it 80 years and never drove, opened a bank account, rented or purchased a home, stayed in a hotel, flown on an airplane, gone to a bar, or any of the other dozens of things that you cannot do without proof of identity.
What idiot would want Abbott to be re elected. That guy is awful on all fronts. He just sat their while the whole state froze to death. And they STILL aren’t on the national grid. Moron hicks
To tell the truth, I was shocked that West came in 2nd. Huffines has been running adds for a solid year.
A lot of it lies, and he should know better since he was in the Texas Legislature.
Abbott won because those who pay attention know that there was ONLY one Republican running that can bring in the Hispanic Vote. Hispanics are 60% of Texas and they know and trust Abbott, the would not vote for West or Huffines.
Beto had a chance against anyone but Abbott. Sorry for all you Robert Francis voters.
Oh you mean all those magical new Republican voters are legit?
You have evidence they aren't?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
