Hype over Texas "Blue Wave"

[TxMusky]

We have been hearing about how Texas was going to turn blue because of early voting totals. They were very misleading as the voters came out on election day. I guess the MSM will have to find some other myth to tease the people with.

Texas Democrats were hoping for a "blue wave" Tuesday night; instead, voters from both parties raced to the polls — and the minority party in the state fell short of the GOP in the vote tally once again.



With 99 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday, Democrats had cast a little more than 1 million votes. Republicans, on the other hand, accounted for 1.5 million votes. Of those, nearly 700,000 came on Election Day.



If you looked at early voting numbers, you might have thought Democrats had an edge. More than 650,000 people voted early in the 10 counties with the most registered voters. More than 370,000 of those were Democrats, compared to nearly 283,000 Republicans.


Four years earlier, Republicans outvoted Democrats in early voting in those 10 counties. So going into Tuesday night, it seemed like the Democrats might be on track to hustle more people to the polls. Election night returns told a different story.



Texas is a solidly red state, and voting totals confirmed that — again.


"We have been hearing for weeks in Texas and across the country that a great 'blue wave' was coming to Texas," Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a Wednesday news release. "But the votes have been counted and we know that so-called 'blue wave' never made landfall."


All isn’t lost for Democrats as they prepare for the November general election, however. Enthusiasm within the party still seems up. In total, Democratic primary turnout more than doubled from 2014 to 2018.


The rise in Democratic turnout might be attributed to the several contested congressional races where the minority party hoped to flip districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 but are currently held by Republicans.

http://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/ne...ain/1017701934

[Billy_Rightwing]

The Dems are working on whipping our arse and we do in fact need to give it a good scratch and look out.

[Fulltimer]

Yep, you guys are so far in the lead it's no reason to even bother going to the polls this next November 15, 2018.

Ya got it in the bag.

[TxMusky]

Yep, you guys are so far in the lead it's no reason to even bother going to the polls this next November 15, 2018.

Ya got it in the bag.

Naw, that Hilliary strategy didn't work out so good for her. I checked and most of the Repub candidates that won their primary, got more votes by themselves than the Dem candidates on the opposing side combined.

[wacojoe]

Perhaps the best indicator of Texas voter attitude in the primary was the competing contests for the U.S. Senate. Ted Cruz (R) garnered 1,317,540 votes (85.3%). His chief opponent and the heart throb of Lefties everywhere is Beto O’Rourk, an Hispanic congressman from El Paso with an impeccable left-wing voting record. O’Rourk spent over $4,000,000 on his senate primary campaign. He got 641,324 votes (61.8%). His next highest challenger who has no elective history, Sema Hernandez, a one time nurse according to her only promotion in a Facebook page, spent $0 and captured 246,308 votes (23.7%). #3, challenger, Edward Kimbrough, spent $750 and got 150,175 votes (14.5%). Perhaps Democrat voters did not realize O’Rourk is a cherished Hispanic too and went for the easy name game.

Cruz got considerably more votes individually than all the Democrat challengers combined, and despite the flood of publicity from and for O’Rourk, the Democrat primary voters show little enthusiasm for him so far. I hope the D’rats waste more funds here down that rathole.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/re...imary-election

[TxMusky]

The left needs their propaganda to feel good about themselves, hyping their base and hoping the real truth does not come out. More and more of the Dems are not happy with the radical left that has held their party hostage and are not supporting them. Another of Obama's great achievements, tearing the Dem party apart at the seams.