The 2018 Election Started Tuesday With One Jaw-Dropping Stat

[Hermit-The-Prog]

Source: Mother Jones

The 2018 election officially began on Tuesday with the first day of early voting ahead of Texas’ March 6th primaries. Evidently, a lot of people got the message. In Harris County, which includes Houston and is the state’s largest population center, Republican turnout was 25-percent higher than the first day of early-voting in the 2014 primaries. That makes some sense—there’s an expensive state house of representatives race in the county and an open Republican-leaning congressional district. But what’s more surprising is the turnout jump on the Democratic side—a full 300 percent.


Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/the-2018-election-started-tuesday-with-one-jaw-dropping-stat/

[ffr]

1. Crush the conservative agenda. End their era of shame. Send them out to pasture.

[raging moderate]

2. The Democrats are back, and you're gonna be in trouble!

Hey la, hey la, they're comin' back!

[marybourg]

5. Yes. This must be our goal. For years, I've been getting

questionnaires from the DNC: what are your most important issues? the economy, education, abortion, etc. etc. Every year, I cross them all out and write: "Getting the right wing out of government!"

If we don't do that, we can't accomplish anything.

[tinrobot]

3. Woah...

That would qualify as jaw dropping.

[vercetti2021]

4. Time to turn Texas blue once and for all

Send the GOP to their death by losing the 38 electoral votes here.

[sheshe2]

6. Red to Blue.

[TomSlick]

7. Go team!

[djacq]

8. 300 Percent

VA-05 Primary, May 5, 2018
4 Candidates (D) for U.S. Congress

Trump won VA-05, 53-42

Hope to send Rep Thomas Garrett Jr. a justified send off.

[Cha]

9. KICK for

[not fooled]

10. Leting the criminal enterprise known as the modern-day republican party control everything

has led to blatant looting and egregious corruption. Let's hope former puke-leaning voters have wised up. The 1/3 or so cultists might not get it but there are a lot of people who thought they were voting for "lower taxes and fiscal responsibility" by voting puke who have now seen what they actually got. No hiding any more for the puke congress, let alone the idiot in the White House.

[blue-wave]

11. Holy headache!

for the reichwing, (as Robin would say) Batman!! There might not be any repukes left after November. But keep people motivated!!! Let's turn that 300% into 400%!!

The following video is for memories sake.

[orleans]

12. wowza! n/t

[joshdawg]

13. Like the real President Obama said:

"Don't boo, vote!"

[SergeStorms]

14. We can do better.

Don't get me wrong, a 300% increase in Democratic voters is absolutely nothing to sneeze at, but unless we get every Democrat - and left-leaning Independent - to the polls on November 6, we're asking to be railroaded by the GOP Cheat Machine.

Not this year. Not ever again. GOTV!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. it was a better primary

From the article:

A big reason for that turnout boost: the extremely competitive Democratic primary in the state’s seventh congressional district.
[...]
What’s also notable is that two of those four leading candidates vying for a spot in the May runoff—Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, the lawyer, and Laura Moser, the writer-turned-activist—are women.

That might not be such a big deal in a lot of places, but it’s highly unusual in Texas. There are just three women in the state’s 36-member congressional delegation, and it’s been that way for a while [...]

It seems to me that people are stirred up. They want progress and change. The flood of new candidates, especially women, is evidence of that and a motivation for voters.