Wednesday, March 05, 2008

More from Texas   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Subject: Your Texas Republican on the Rush ploy

Makes a very good point.  The undercount in the D primary was almost 700,000 ballots out of 2.86 million.  By contrast, the undercount in the R primary was about 164,000 ballots out of 1.38 million.

In the 2004 general election, the dropoff from president to railroad commissioner (the next race on the state ballot) was less than 400,000 out of 7.4 million. 

In the 2000 general election – the last time we had president/US Senate at the top of the ballot – the dropoff was only 130,000 out of 6.4 million.

During early voting, I saw polling data that 14% of the voters in this year’s D primary were self-identified Republicans.  My guess is that yesterday’s proportion was even greater.

03/05 10:33 AMShare