The Clinton-Obama Rodeo Lassoes Texas »
Posted By not2needy 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsIt was not supposed to happen here. Texas planned on taking a back seat in this year's political battles. All the brouhaha would be over by March 4, when the Texas primary rolled around, the pundits said. And Texas would sleepily run through its odd combination primary/caucus.
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not2needy1 year, 8 months ago
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On Tuesday, the first day of early voting, election officials across the state reported a record turnout. In just one day in the state's 15 most populous counties, some 65,000-plus voters went to grocery stores and bank lobbies, rec centers and libraries to vote. Some images are startling: 1,000 Prairie View A&M students, a traditionally African-American college in a rural area west of Houston, marched seven miles to the nearest early voting station. And in a state requiring no party registration to cast a ballot, two out of three early voters so far have asked for a Democratic ballot. That is where the battle is being fought: between a must-win Hillary Clinton and a surging Barack Obama.
WOW, 2 out of 3 voters are asking for a democrat ballot!
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ETproductions1 year, 8 months ago
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not2needy wrote: "WOW, 2 out of 3 voters are asking for a democrat ballot!"
That, to me, is the most exciting demographic. Unless the Cons mount a ridiculously lopsided attempt to hijack this next election, we will be rid of the GWB stay the course idiocy. Even if they do try to steal this election too, the numbers will be so staggering that they will be exposed and thrown into prison for their political cheating this time. Good riddance!
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not2needy1 year, 8 months ago
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Texas has one of the longest - 10 days this year - early voting periods in the country; and the turnout tends to a follow a familiar pattern, says Rice University political scientist and pollster Bob Stein. It's heavy for the first three days and the last three. With the caveat that this year's election is breaking familiar patterns (particularly the magnitude of the numbers voting), Stein says that it will likely benefit Clinton initially"I expect Clinton would benefit from 'early' early voting only because her polling numbers were higher before the campaign came to Texas," Stein said.
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not2needy1 year, 8 months ago
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"Since this weekend her polling numbers have dropped, producing a dead heat between her and Obama. She continues to drop in the overnight polls." That means, Stein believes, that she will do better with early voters than election day voters, and prognosticators are predicting a record, perhaps two-million-plus turnout in the Democratic primary, more than double any in recent years.
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questionseverything1 year, 8 months ago
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she is seriously looking unbalanced
i dont dislike the clintons,im ok with hillary being in the senate but obama not taking lobbyists money or corporate money is the HUGE STEP in right direction for fixing the mess we have at the national level
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kctrixter1 year, 8 months ago
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"I expect Clinton would benefit from 'early' early voting only because her polling numbers were higher before the campaign came to Texas,"
When you do better before you campaign, I think it's time you take a long at what you're saying.
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