Official March 4th Results Discussion Topic

[Хahar 🤔]

Looks like Edwards still has strong support in the Texas panhandle.

Thats good, right? The racist, conservative Dems will make up his vote, yes?

Yes, I wouldn't say Racist though....

Contrary to what you think, there ARE rasicts in the Democratic party. Holdovers from the Solid South days, mostly.

[Cubby]

Glasscock 10% for Paul, 6% uncommited. Explain?

If you live in a county called Glasscock, I guess it's hard to take anything seriously. (The Democratic primary there is more interesting: 2 votes, split evenly, with 20% reporting.)

Glasscock County, TX was Bush's best county in the nation in 2000. He got 91 point something percent there. Its next to his old home of Midland. The county is so Republican it didn't even have a Democratic Primary in 2004, along with 3 Panhandle counties.

[Sam Spade]

So, with almost all of the 900.000 early votes counted, it looks like SUSA's early voting poll (50% Clinton, 48% Obama) was horribly wrong and BELO poll was most accurate in predicting a 59-41 early vote for Obama.

That margin will narrow a decent bit - The border and El Paso aren't in yet. 

Ah, no surprise - Hillary 80-20 in Laredo.

[Meeker]

So do they just throw in all the early votes to one precinct or something? Because at the current rate there'd be somewhere in the range of 70-80 million voters in the Texas Democratic primary, which I find fairly unlikely

[War on Want]

Looks like Edwards still has strong support in the Texas panhandle.

Thats good, right? The racist, conservative Dems will make up his vote, yes?

Yes, I wouldn't say Racist though....

Contrary to what you think, there ARE rasicts in the Democratic party. Holdovers from the Solid South days, mostly.

Of course there are some, but I would say that farmers in the Panhandle are not racist compared to those in Eastern Texas.

[TomC]

So, with almost all of the 900.000 early votes counted, it looks like SUSA's early voting poll (50% Clinton, 48% Obama) was horribly wrong and BELO poll was most accurate in predicting a 59-41 early vote for Obama.

That margin will narrow a decent bit - The border and El Paso aren't in yet. 

Ah, no surprise - Hillary 80-20 in Laredo.

I knew Ted Kennedy shouldn't have sung.

[Хahar 🤔]

So do they just throw in all the early votes to one precinct or something? Because at the current rate there'd be somewhere in the range of 70-80 million voters in the Texas Democratic primary, which I find fairly unlikely

I'd assume that's the case, but I'm not very knowledgable about these things.

[Sam Spade]

So do they just throw in all the early votes to one precinct or something? Because at the current rate there'd be somewhere in the range of 70-80 million voters in the Texas Democratic primary, which I find fairly unlikely

About half the votes should come from early voting, I suspect.

[Verily]

So do they just throw in all the early votes to one precinct or something? Because at the current rate there'd be somewhere in the range of 70-80 million voters in the Texas Democratic primary, which I find fairly unlikely

That's what they did in California.

Also, early voting will narrow. Cameron, Hidalgo, and El Paso are some of the strongest early voting counties, and are also Clinton territory.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

people aged 65+ in Ohio: 70-29 Clinton

ughhhh.....  old people

[War on Want]

people aged 65+ in Ohio: 70-29 Clinton

ughhhh.....  old people

[Хahar 🤔]

Looks like Edwards still has strong support in the Texas panhandle.

Thats good, right? The racist, conservative Dems will make up his vote, yes?

Yes, I wouldn't say Racist though....

Contrary to what you think, there ARE rasicts in the Democratic party. Holdovers from the Solid South days, mostly.

Of course there are some, but I would say that farmers in the Panhandle are not racist compared to those in Eastern Texas.

Have you been to the panhandle? Neither have I, so we're not qualified to talk about this.

people aged 65+ in Ohio: 70-29 Clinton

ughhhh.....  old people

At least they'll vote Democratic in the GE.

[Keystone Phil]

CNN - Bush to endorse McCain


Haha...

At least they'll vote Democratic in the GE.

Don't be so sure.

[Хahar 🤔]

I'm still looking for an explanation for Gillespie County.

At least they'll vote Democratic in the GE.

Don't be so sure.

Uh, they're the base. They always turn out.

[exopolitician]

So the tornado sirens are going off here...so I will be away from my laptop for a bit.

[Keystone Phil]

At least they'll vote Democratic in the GE.

Don't be so sure.
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Uh, they're the base. They always turn out.
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Uh, thanks. I was saying that they might not vote Dem in the General.

[Хahar 🤔]

20% of precincts are reporting in Loving County. That means they have 5 precincts or more. If I didn't know about what goes on there, I'd be incredulous at that many precincts in a county without a single public school.

At least they'll vote Democratic in the GE.

Don't be so sure.

Uh, they're the base. They always turn out.
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Uh, thanks. I was saying that they might not vote Dem in the General.
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If they turn out every year to vote in the Democratic Primary, why wouldn't they vote Democratic?

[Sam Spade]

Gillespie County - Germans, Germans, Germans.  My parents have a place up there.  Republican stronghold since the Civil War.

[Eraserhead]

Texas is looking pretty good.

[StateBoiler]

I frankly think that anyone talking about racism from a place they've probably never been to or from people they've never met is just pure bulls*** and they're trying to explain off certain results. Act like adults people.

Here's the link for Texas county-by-county results for President and much more.

http://www.chron.com/apps/ElectionPub/local.mpl?action=apdisplay&nextview=appublic&area=all&div=CTY&election_id=1036&ru=Texas

[Stranger in a strange land]

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Don't be so sure.
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Uh, they're the base. They always turn out.
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Uh, thanks. I was saying that they might not vote Dem in the General.
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the very poor basically have to vote democratic

[Хahar 🤔]

Gillespie County - Germans, Germans, Germans.  My parents have a place up there.  Republican stronghold since the Civil War.

But Romney? Followed by Huckabee, PAUL, and then McCain?

I frankly think that anyone talking about racism from a place they've probably never been to or from people they've never met is just pure bulls*** and they're trying to explain off certain results. Act like adults people.

Me and EMD aren't adults. Sorry.

[War on Want]

Gillespie County - Germans, Germans, Germans.  My parents have a place up there.  Republican stronghold since the Civil War.

Kind of odd, considering German Catholics are more moderate nowdays, than English Evangelicals.

[Ben.]

Texas is looking pretty good.

Is this down to absentee ballots getting counted first?

[Keystone Phil]

If they turn out every year to vote in the Democratic Primary, why wouldn't they vote Democratic?

Uh, what? Whites turn out in the Dem primary. Whites tend to vote Republican.

This is such a mind numbing conversation.