There was a time when Austin was an island of blue in an ocean of red. The sea change, in the map, makes one reach for the Dramamine.
Now consider:
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/07/blue-wave-texas-republicans-outvoted-democrats-2018-primaries/Texas is a solidly red state, and voting totals confirmed that — again.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday, Democrats had cast a little more than 1 million votes. Republicans, on the other hand, accounted for 1.5 million votes. Of those, nearly 700,000 came on Election Day.
In the 2018 primary, Democrats had their highest number of voters in a midterm primary since 1994. Though the number of ballots cast in the U.S. Senate primary spiked from 510,009 in 2014 to 1,034,965 this year, it wasn't enough to catch up to Republicans.
Candidate Party Votes Pct.
Ted Cruz*
Republican
4,244,204 50.9%
Beto O'Rourke
Democrat
4,024,777 48.3
Neal Dikeman
Libertarian
65,240 0.8
8,334,221 votes, 100% reporting (7,949 of 7,949 precincts)
* Incumbent
Huh...there's that 200,000 vote differential again, the same magical difference as the Sinema fraud ballots in Az.
Dems must not have stuffed the ballot boxes as easily as they did in Florida and Montana.
