MSNBC has Texas 1% in, showing 489,023 for Obama and

[Ilsa]

374,383 for Clinton. These numbers make no sense as a total of over 900,000 votes, representing 1%. We'd have to have 90,000,000 voters here. What are these numbers on MSNBC?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Gotta Be Early Voting.

Either that, or Texas is getting ready to invade the rest of our fucking country LOL

[high density]

2. Early vote totals

As far as we know.

[Dbdmjs1022]

3. They must be the early voting numbers. Which is still HUGE since apparently 60% voted early!

[Ilsa]

6. 60% of texas voters voted early? I have such a hard time with that.

Granted, it was slow in my south texas precinct this morning, but this is typical for more to show later.

[tnlurker]

4. It is 1% of the precinct reporting

They are probably from the more urban areas, plus some of the early voting numbers.

[Ilsa]

10. But at 1%, that would extrapolate to 90,000,000 voters in TX. Can't be. nt

[jobendorfer]

5. 12.4 million registered voters in Texas

I saw on CNN that Texas has ~12.4 million registered voters.
So 900K votes is around 7 percent.

J.

[thewiseguy]

8. Thats democrats plus republicans buddy

They were expecting somewhere around 3 million votes today with about more than 50% of it casted early. These are the early votes and this could be a very bad sign for Hillary.

The polls that had her close to Obama were saying she was ahead in the early votes!

[demo dutch]

7. Early voting .. large cities get results first (Obama precincts) only 1% reporting

[TheDoorbellRang]

13. Is that usual for Texas?

I know in Missouri it was always the opposite -- city results were always the last ones in.

[nomorewhopper]

9. 1% of "precincts" not "voters". Plus these votes likely represent "early votes" which were not....

...which were not cast today

[tulip]

11. TX Sec State Results

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_state.htm?x=0&y=278&id=503

[Va Lefty]

12. Heard on NPR today that they were expecting 3-3.5 million voters today in Dem Primary

[JackORoses]

14. This is Early Voting + 1% of Today's totals

Gooooooobama!

[ananda]

15. The early voting numbers in TX have been tremendous.

Two million.

I was one of them.. and I voted for Clinton..
not because I particularly like her more or
Obama less.. but because I want Edwards to
have a strong influence on the platform.

[johnnydrama]

16. they don't know

There's no way to know the percentage of the early voters are compared to voters today, so they keep the vote % at 1.

Obviously it's not 1%.

[johnnydrama]

17. from Josh Marshall

It's a Whole 'Nother Country
A number of readers have asked about something seemingly screwy about the Texas numbers. There are roughly 1% of precincts reporting. And yet there are about 800,000 votes cast. Now, we know Texas is an awfully big state. But did 80 million Texans really show up today? Well, no. Here's the answer. These are the early votes, the ones that weren't cast today. And the percentage of returns are precincts reporting, not votes. And my understanding is that in each county all the early votes count as one precinct. I'm not 100% sure I've got the precise details right here. But I'm pretty sure the issue here is early votes.

Pretty much what I thought.

It just jumped to 2%, so it looks like the early votes are done being counted.

Around 950,000. Amazing.

[Ilsa]

18. Thanks! I was totally confused. nt

[Ilsa]

19. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYONE! I GET IT NOW! (woohoo) nt