The 2018 Election Started Tuesday With One Jaw-Dropping Stat

[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.
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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.