“Despite rosy predictions of high Democratic turnout Friday from supporters of gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, numbers from the secretary of state’s office show the turnout rate among early voters is on track to be significantly lower than it was four years ago,” reported the Texas Tribune.
“Almost 1.5 million ballots had been cast in the state’s 15 largest counties through Thursday — almost identical to the raw turnout figures at the same point in the last gubernatorial election in 2010, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s office. But because the state has grown in the past four years, and more people have registered to vote than ever before, the overall voter turnout rate in these counties is down 7.2 percent.
“The official figures, posted daily on the secretary of state’s website, also flatly contradict a self-congratulatory press release issued Friday by Battleground Texas, the Democratic turnout group that’s been working for a year and a half to make Texas more hospitable to Democrats,” read the Tribune’s story.
…join me tonight for election returns in an extended edition of Pratt on Texas across the network.
GOP consultant Ted Delisi calls the Obama-organization, Battleground Texas, “grossly wrong” but we really don’t know because Early Voting numbers don’t carry with them party affiliation. Those who do data crunching have compared certain early vote data to that of voters’ past habits and have concluded that Texas should again experience a GOP landslide.
No poll or predictive model matters if voters don’t actually show up to vote. The futures of Texas and the nation are in your hands. If you’ve not done so early, get out and vote today. Polls are open from 7am to 7pm – and then join me tonight for election returns in an extended edition of Pratt on Texas across the network.
Pratt on the 2014 General Election
Robert Pratt
“Despite rosy predictions of high Democratic turnout Friday from supporters of gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, numbers from the secretary of state’s office show the turnout rate among early voters is on track to be significantly lower than it was four years ago,” reported the Texas Tribune.
“Almost 1.5 million ballots had been cast in the state’s 15 largest counties through Thursday — almost identical to the raw turnout figures at the same point in the last gubernatorial election in 2010, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s office. But because the state has grown in the past four years, and more people have registered to vote than ever before, the overall voter turnout rate in these counties is down 7.2 percent.
“The official figures, posted daily on the secretary of state’s website, also flatly contradict a self-congratulatory press release issued Friday by Battleground Texas, the Democratic turnout group that’s been working for a year and a half to make Texas more hospitable to Democrats,” read the Tribune’s story.
…join me tonight for election returns in an extended edition of Pratt on Texas across the network.
GOP consultant Ted Delisi calls the Obama-organization, Battleground Texas, “grossly wrong” but we really don’t know because Early Voting numbers don’t carry with them party affiliation. Those who do data crunching have compared certain early vote data to that of voters’ past habits and have concluded that Texas should again experience a GOP landslide.
No poll or predictive model matters if voters don’t actually show up to vote. The futures of Texas and the nation are in your hands. If you’ve not done so early, get out and vote today. Polls are open from 7am to 7pm – and then join me tonight for election returns in an extended edition of Pratt on Texas across the network.