May 2012
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Texas Primary: A Look at Turnout
In a prior post, we looked at the early vote numbers in the 15 most populous counties. In the Republican primary, there were 692,866 people who voted in early in the Presidential election, which was 48 percent of the total 1.4 million people (11 percent of registered voters) who voted in the Presidential primary. In the Democratic primary, there were 303,203 people who voted in early in the...
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Texas Primary: Early Voting Totals
Turnout for early voting has been surprisingly high given that the Presidential race is effectively over.
According to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, 343,497 Texans have voted early in the 15 most populous counties (Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, Collin, El Paso, Denton, Fort Bend, Hidalgo, Montgomery, Wlliamsom, Nueces, Galveston, and Cameron). Dallas Morning News reporter...
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Social media is the new block walking →
If that’s the case, then you’re doing it wrong, because social media can’t replace direct contact with a voter.
I discussed this a little last week, when I discussed online advertising, but the deserved fascination with social media’s impact on elections often strays into the realm of the ridiculous with headlines like that above, which come from the San Antonio...
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“No one is [immune]. And this slow suicide — as the great Molly Ivins called it —...”
– David Simon on the news that the Times-Picayune will no longer be a daily paper (Source).
Mr Simon, while I appreciate your work on The Wire, I can’t disagree more. Putting content behind a paywall isn’t going to save newspapers, but only further their decline and death. The salvation...
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Presidential Politics: the Religious Voter
With the announcement that President Obama was giving his full support to gay marriage, there has been some speculation that he has damaged himself among black voters who oppose gay marriage (55 percent to 42). One Time contributor has said that Obama has made “a courageous bet that black voters won’t punish him.”
Except black voters have not been shown to vote on social issues, but...
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TX Democrats Donating Outside the State →
Seems like this has been a recurring theme over the last several years in the Texas press, i.e., Texas Democrats donate more to out-of-state candidates than they do to in-state candidates.
In this cycle, Texas Democrats have given $21 million, but only $4.8 million has gone to Texas candidates. The Texas Democratic Party even spent money on advertising in Alabama back in August 2011.
Of course,...
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The 2012 Republican Veepstakes
One of the things we’re already hearing a lot about, and will continue to hear about until the GOP convention, is the debate - or rather, guessing - over who Romney will pick as his Vice Presidential nominee.
Every four years, various members of the media ask the same old questions, one of which is whether or not certain VP candidates will help the nominee to win particular states,...
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Voter Registration Down Among Hispanics, Blacks
liberalsarecool:
Republican voter suppression in effect. They want you have as many hurdles as possible, scare as many old people and minorities. The poll tax is essentially back.
Except this is a nationwide trend, as the Washington Post article notes, and voter ID laws have only been passed in a few states (and in some of those few, the laws have not gone into effect, because they require...
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