Texas Early voting stats, 180,000+ democratic votes in 3 days

[Herman Munster]

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/earlyvoting/2008/feb21demo.shtml

[MadBadger]

1. Early voting has shot up in Houston and Dallas.

[thevoiceofreason]

2. Sweet.

I had only known Harris County (Houston) was about 26K.

[TexasObserver]

3. It's going to be a record Texas Democratic primary turnout of tsunamic proportions.

I've never seen anything like it here.

[BringBigDogBack]

4. Yep.

Texas is on fire

[thevoiceofreason]

5. And this weekend is going to be epic.

There are numerous Obama Houston rallies planned, followed by coordinated trips to the polls.

[woolldog]

8. Wow

Is that legal??

[Zynx]

6. In the 2004 general election 2.8 million voted Democratic.

In another couple days we'll already be at 10%.

[TexasObserver]

7. I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it.

hmmmm that might make a catchy tune

[susanr516]

9. Of top 15 counties with highest turnout--

As percentage of registered voters--

1. Hidalgo (Rio Grande Valley)
2. Cameron (Rio Grande Valley)
3. (tie in pct.) Travis (Austin)
3. El Paso (El Paso)
5. Nueces (Corpus Christi)

Four out of five are majority Hispanic. I understand Webb County (Laredo, 94% Hispanic) has also broken all records for early voting, but I can't find any hard numbers.

Massive voter turnout in Texas. I live in Corpus Christi--lots of interest in the election, and turnout in the primary may break the 30% mark, unheard of for this area of the state.

[TexasObserver]

10. Hidalgo, Cameron, El Paso, Nueces total 2.2 mil residents. Travis is 1 mil. Harris is 4 mil. Dal

Dallas county is about 2.5 million

Four of those five counties you listed total about 2.2 mil residents, and those counties should be good for Hillary (Hidalgo, Cameron, El Paso, and Nueces).

But Harris county (Houston) is 4 million and Dallas County (Dallas) is 2.5 mil.

Travis county (Austin) is about 1.0 mil.

Obama should win Travis, Dallas and Harris counties BIG, and collectively, they have 7.5 mil residents.

I should also mention Bexar County (San Antonio) with about 1.5 mil residents, which will probably split, with the edge to Hillary

There are about 25 million residents of Texas, maybe a little less. Of those, about 11.5 million are in these 8 counties:

Harris, Dallas, Travis, Bexar, Hidalgo, Cameron, El Paso, and Nueces.
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