Texas Early Voting trends: very high turnout in Hillary strongholds near the border

[Herman Munster]

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/2008/feb24demo.shtml

8.88% of Hidalgo County (McAllen) has voted early. 6.46% of El Paso County (El Paso) has voted early.

Harris County (Houston) has had only 3.7% turnout.

What does this mean?

The number of registered voters in Harris County is 1.8 million. The combined number of registered voters in Hidalgo and El Paso counties combined is just 650,000, yet close to 50,000 have already voted in these counties.

This means that Hillary's two border strongholds alone are competitive with Harris County where only 66,000 have voted even though Harris has 3 TIMES the population of Hidalgo and El Paso.

[babylonsister]

1. Check the populations of these places and get back to me. Nice try though. nt

[Herman Munster]

4. you don't know how to add?

I'm referring to actual registered voters. Actual population is irrelevent of course.

So let's do some addition, OK? Or is that too hard for you?

Harris 1,804,641


Hidalgo 287,988
El Paso 368,579

[babylonsister]

8. You're talking small percentages of small populations vs.

a small percentage of a large population, way before the actual primary election day. I'm proof that I'm a registered voter who chooses to wait until next Tuesday. Your logic isn't making sense to me.
Besides, didn't you want to be TS'ed? Why are you hear, if I may ask? But as always, lovely to see you.

[Kittycat]

10. Not that any of it matters. She's banking on areas that only provide minimal delegates.

In addition, those areas have youth strongholds for Obama with the average voter age something like 28, I believe. I remember hearing the detail on this a couple weeks back.

[BeatleBoot]

13. "Why Are You Here?"

For the same reason you are.

Just supporting a different candidate.


Here.

[Herman Munster]

14. these obama people are some of the most miserable people I've ever seen

There must be something really fucked up in their lives to hate a woman as much as they hate Hillary.

[Tarc]

2. The O-Bot cultists are already trying to dampen this good news for Clinton

as they cannot seem top handle the idea that people aren't voting in droves for the Anointed One.

One of the DU regulars already jumped in 1 minute after this was created. Sad.

[persistant]

6. They'll have to send another photo to Drudge

[Herman Munster]

11. don't worry, they will all be shocked if Hillary wins Texas and then we'll hear about vote fraud

She has brought in Ace Smith to run her Texas operation. The guy who made a fool of Zogby, the field poll, and every other poll that had Hillary losing California. The guy who while Obama was putting Oprah out there he was organizing 2 million get out the vote calls for Hillary in the final weekend and 1 million on election day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cutbirth/the-mauro-factor_b_88315.html

I could barely hear Mauro on Saturday for chants of "Hill-a-ry, Hill-a-ry" when I tracked him down by cell phone at a Clinton rally in El Paso. He was leaving an event at one voting site, where he estimated the crowd at 2,000, and heading for another one across town. Both were designed to draw Hispanics directly to polling places where they could cast ballots under Texas' progressive early-voting law.

"We know what we're doing." Mauro said. "We know what we are up against. We have a plan in place, and if we execute, we'll kick some ass."

One thing is certain: Something unheard of -- something absolutely off-the-charts -- is happening in Texas.

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The primary campaign has built voter identification and get-out-the-vote events around former President Clinton in 21 of the state's 23 media markets and taken Hillary Clinton to at least 14 of those same markets.

"We could have a rally with 20,000, but instead we are focusing on smaller targeted events that draw several thousand voters to early voting sites, so they can vote" he said. "His rallies are at night at the Capitol. He's showboating for the media."

Gardner Selby, the veteran political columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, said he is baffled by some of the commentary about the Texas campaign he's seen from "East Coast media" on cable television and the Internet.

"The presidential race is not over. Anybody who says they know what is going to happen here is drunk on their own (ego)," Selby said.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Boy, that's a real ethnic cleansing going on.

:rofl:

[Quixote1818]

5. Hillary is not doing as good with Hispanics now. Those areas could go either way. nt

[scheming daemons]

7. Are those Hillary strongholds? What is the population of over-50 white women there?

That's the only constituency that she has left.

[crispini]

9. Mmmm, the border turnout wasn't so hot back in 2006 for Chris Bell.

And that was what determines the number of delegates each Senate District has.

Popular vote in Texas determines nothing. ;)

[K Gardner]

12. What does it mean? Well, I have an idea..

Its over. RUN FOR THE BORDER !