Holy Shit! Early voting Numbers in Texas!

[peoli]

By county. 2004, 2006 and 2008.


Republicans
Harris 04 -- 1,929
Harris 06 -- 1,194
Harris 08 -- 8,886

Dallas 04 -- 1,162
Dallas 06 -- 2,145
Dallas 08 -- 6,847

Bexar 04 -- 1,205
Bexar 06 -- 1,902
Bexar 08 -- 7,028

Tarrant 04 -- 1,005
Tarrant 06 -- 2,299
Tarrant 08 -- 7,394

Travis 04 -- 1,737
Travis 06 -- 1,239
Travis 08 -- 3,792

El Paso 04 -- 890
El Paso 06 -- 1,227
El Paso 08 -- 2,623

Collin 04 -- 1,244
Collin 06 -- 1,538
Collin 08 -- 4,805


GOP early voting has doubled in El Paso County this year; tripled in Bexar, Tarrant, Dallas, Travis, and Collin counties, and shot up sevenfold (!) in Harris County. Not bad -- until you see the Democrats' numbers.

Democrats

Harris 04 -- 2,392
Harris 06 -- 1,379
Harris 08 -- 26,729

Dallas o4 -- 2,314
Dallas 06 -- 1,636
Dallas 08 -- 23,312

Bexar 04 -- 3,022
Bexar 06 -- 3,845
Bexar 08 -- 20,926

Tarrant 04 -- 1,005
Tarrant 06 -- 679
Tarrant 08 --15,888

Travis 04 -- 3,743
Travis 06 -- 1,367
Travis 08 -- 18,389

El Paso 04 -- 4,637
El Paso 06 -- 5,221
El Paso 08 -- 12,807

Collin 04 -- 503
Collin 06 -- 156
Collin 08 -- 6,845 (No, I not did not a mistake.)

Cumulative Early Vote Totals for the 15 Largest Counties, 2008
(includes Denton, Hidalgo, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Williamson, Nueces, Galveston, Cameron)

Republican early vote for first three days: 56,408
Democratic early vote for first three days: 170,580
R's outvote D's only in Montgomery County


http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/2008/02/early-birds-ds-outvoting-rs-almost-3-to.php

[ingac70]

1. Promising news! n/t.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

Perhaps to change to something else besides "voting" numbers?

[Window]

2. Dayum!

[Guava Jelly]

3. WOW

thank you for posting this

[BuyingThyme]

4. Boy. Was there a law/process change?

[bigbrother05]

5. Thanks for posting

[NOLALady]

6. For the first time

I feel really grateful for Buhs.

Unbelievable!

[Arkana]

7. Do we have any %s on those numbers?

Like, are they going to HRC or Barack?

[crispini]

45. Votes are not reported til the polls close on election day. nt

[UALRBSofL]

8. I thought there were more registered republicans then democrats in Texas?

With this kind of difference in ratio of votes could it be possible there are a lot of cross over votes?

[MadMaddie]

12. Don't forget the gerrymandering of districts in Texas. I think

that this will be the irony in the numbers, the Republicans messed with the system to favor themselves last election. This time it looks like it is getting thrown in their faces.....

[theoldman]

14. Your are correct and there have been a lot of Republicans

voting for both Democrat candidates.

[juajen]

25. Link? Possibly with numbers?

[WolverineDG]

38. Sorry, only registered VOTERS in Texas

you don't declare a party membership until you vote in the primary.

dg

[MadMaddie]

9. Holy Cow...

[143tbone]

10. Holy S....!!

[Ian David]

11. The terrorists can have Montgomery County. n/t

[lastliberalintexas]

43. I freaking LOATHE Montgomery County

F'ers can outvote Jefferson County and with all the gerrymadering, they screw up our representation in just about every race from state senate up. Bastards.

Apologies to any Dems in Montgomery County, I can imagine your pain is as great as mine.

[theoldman]

13. Tarrant county is about 80% Republican.

I will laugh my ass off if the votes next Tuesday confirm these numbers.

[BeatleBoot]

17. Go Figure.

[Lefty-Taylor]

30. This is getting old, Beetleboot. Don't you get tired of your same old crap?

At least this time, your post doesn't suggest racism as your posts on Saturday evening did. I gave you my responses to your anti-Obama, barely coherent, "cult" rants but it might have been too late in the evening your time for you to respond. Whatever. But this cartoon is tired. -- By the way, this comes from someone who supported Edwards.

[thevoiceofreason]

15. Newer numbers: It gets better

Thru Close of Business -- Democratic Votes Only
February 24, 2008
County Cumulative In-Person And Mail Voters
Harris 66,756
Dallas 49,485
Tarrant 35,144
Bexar 42,198
Travis 36,890


Total 360,259


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

[rainbow4321]

23. 2004 primary early vote Collin County: 2,874 Dems; 2008: 15,155!!!

And that is just thru Feb 24th...still have til Friday for early voting!!!

Meanwhile 2008 repuke stats: 9,756.


In the reddest of red TX counties, no less.

[thevoiceofreason]

26. So glad to see Collin County having a good red time!

[grantcart]

32. Texas is going to count

[Windy]

16. I think it was rasmussen that reported today that the majority were going heavily obama.

http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/early-voting-in-texas-points-to-heavy-obama-influence/

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5563949.html

[blogslut]

18. This just warms my heart

Texas is going blue. Damn, that's a site for sore eyes.

[moc]

19. Collin County is not a lonely place for Dems anymore!

:bounce:

It's hard to explain how isolated I felt in 2000, 2002/2003 (Iraq invasion), and in 2004. For a long time, I had a "W = Worst President Ever" bumper sticker in the back window of my van, and a friend told me I was brave to drive around here with that on my car. :-)

I think it's very exciting!

:bounce:

[rainbow4321]

29. I wrote "Lame Duck President" on my back window

with white shoe polish and purposely drove around West Plano after the 2006 Congressional Dem takeover. Several angry horn honkers and if-looks-could-kill glares at stoplights made for a wonderful morning :evilgrin:

Need to think of something good to write for next Wednesday morning!!

[moc]

34. LOLOL!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


That's classic!


I still remember driving up Central Expressway the day after the 2004 election when some wingnut college kid yahoo hanging out his window whizzed by whooping about how great it was that GWB was re-elected. Payback is a bitch!

[Aviation Pro]

20. Not bad, almost 10% of the registered voters of Texas....

...

[high density]

21. holy cow

That's impressive.

[Mojambo]

22. That is fucking ridiculous. n/t

[Obamaman2008]

24. I really hope those are all for Obama!

[juajen]

27. Yes, because we really want republicans voting for Obama.

You are sick if you think Texas repubicans are voting for an African American democrat because they like him. Disingenuous, aren't you?

[loveangelc]

31. what the hell? so you'd prefer they were voting for hillary because she's white?

yes, all of those votes are only for hillary :eyes:

[moc]

35. Judgemental much? The Republicans here that I know who are

voting for Obama are doing so because they're as sick of GWB and repub "politics as usual" as we are, and they see in Obama the chance for change.

But yeah, let's not encourage them to join us in getting this country back. That's a winning strategy. :eyes:

[Bongo Prophet]

37. Are you from Texas, juajen? There is a lot of new enthusiasm here. New voters.

Not just Repubs, even though there are some of them too.
And some of them will be sincere, some not.

But the fact that we have some attention, and that at least ONE of the candidates understands ground game and building grass roots up.
That 50 state strategy, not the "those states don't matter" strategy, will help us down ticket, and breathe some life back in the party.

Goddess bless Howard Dean, Obama and the dem wing of the dem party for that.
Scoff if you will, but any true democrat would see this as a good thing.

[Bongo Prophet]

28. We are ready to make a difference in Texas! HUNGRY!

People who had eye rolls for political talk a few years ago are now bringing it up on their own.

Obama is the usual subject, and he has been encouraging early voting and registration, and informing new voters of the "Texas two step primary/caucus" procedure. THAT is what grass roots change looks like. Hillary is probably doing so, but she "doesn't do big rallies" for some reason. Perhaps she should - not just for her, but for DEMOCRACY'S sake.

"Enough with the rallies!" she says-- but rallies actually get people inspired to join in the process, when done right. One could say it...RALLIES them.. to the dem cause. ALL dems should learn from this. We need new voters! so HOORAY and a big YEEHAW for the new voters, both young and old alike!

I think folks are just ready for a change. Texas probably will stay red, but we are coming back big time. Ya never know what may happen.

Ann Richards and Molly Ivins should be smiling down on us.

My heart is full with this info.
Thanks!

:hi:

[stop the bleeding]

33. ZOINKS! ruh roh Raggy the rethugs are in trouble

:toast:

[JackORoses]

36. This is why Jonathan Alter has recommended Hillary pull out now with a little grace

He sees a true embarassment coming in Hillary's near future, potentially a politically crippling one.

He thinks she should salvage her career and move on.

[Skinner]

39. Wow!

Great stuff!

[SoCalDem]

40. Those republicans are not voting for mccain...

are they voting for Hillary?? (not likely)

[blogslut]

46. Well, there are local elections

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Huckabee makes a decent showing in Texas.

[SoCalDem]

50. Yup..the Huckster's last stand :)

Too bad he's so weird..he's got a good sense of humor :)

[sfam]

41. Anyone have exit polls for the early voters?

Just wondering who is in the lead for these early votes.

[ctaylors6]

42. I live in Dallas in big republican area. All the republicans I know are voting in dem primary ...

They think McCain is done deal, so feel they have no reason to vote in republican primary. In texas, you request a party's ballot when you walk in to vote. That's how you "register" to vote here. That party affiliation sticks only for the remainder of the election cycle. So republicans (ie those who usually vote republican) who vote in dem primary this year show up in dem numbers. Low republican numbers means few people are voting in the republican primary.

[crispini]

44. You guys DEFINITELY need to read the comments on that blog.

Some great stuff here. Like this:

"One thing that leads me to believe that crossover is only a small part of it the fact that the Obama campaign had a Precinct Captain training in Collin County in Frisco a week ago that drew over 430 people."

Collin County is one of the most Republican counties in the nation. :wow:

[Perry Logan]

47. You mean, there's hope for Texas?

[TexasObserver]

48. We are SO taking back the STATE!! Get some, pukes, get some!!

This is going to be so sweet.

[workinclasszero]

49. Nice!

Its going to be awesome when the rethugs get hammered back into a tiny minority in the GE!!:toast:

[Kittycat]

51. Finally a thread that we can all happily cheer on. GO DEMS!!!

:clap: