Video of the Prairie View A&M Student March- "We Need You, Obama"

Thank you KT (5.00 / 1)

Hey liberaldemdave suggested it would be great for the two candidates to swing by Prairie View for an appearance.

I think that would be fabulous.

Rank that YouTube video up!

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by: sonia @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 21:58:44 PM UTC

Good idea, Sonia, on the video... (3.00 / 1)

...btw, Karl's e-mail quote was from my e-mail to the True Blue 10 PAC.

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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by: liberaldemdave @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:26:08 PM UTC

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Only 472 got to vote (0.00 / 0)

I know this is huge KT but shouldn't that number be closer to one thousand?  They had an estimated 2,000 on the march.  Maybe some of them weren't from Waller, but the PVU students should have all voted.  Hope none of them were denied the right to vote.

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by: sonia @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:02:51 PM UTC

As a comparison (0.00 / 0)

The UT early voting location had around 750 early voters.  This is with about 15 machines and a continuous line of 10-20 people. With only 2 machines and a continuous line, 472  sounds about right.

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by: Kedron Touvell @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:22:37 PM UTC

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Correct (0.00 / 0)

And as was noted in the stories yesterday, they were joined by lots of friends, supporters, those who weren't registered, etc.

Prairie View has 8000 students and only 3000 registered. So that seems about right.  

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:29:21 PM UTC

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Wow by comparison (5.00 / 1)

PVU just kicked UT's registered voters' butt. Let's just say all those early votes were PVU students.  Their turnout is already 15% of their registered voters.

Amazing.

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by: sonia @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:42:10 PM UTC

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I don't think (3.00 / 1)

UT has anything to be ashamed about.  Another 713 voted today.  The bottleneck here has been the poll workers who check ID.  Even with 20 people or so in line, only about half the machines are being used at a given time as the workers are checking cards, etc.  Perhaps we can send some of our excess to PVA&M?

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by: Kedron Touvell @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 02:18:15 AM UTC

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I wasn't trying to disparage UT, by any means Kedron! (0.00 / 0)

We must have been typing at about the same time... The students UT is to be greatly commended for their political activism and engagement, as should the PVAMU students.

This is remarkable because the students at PVAMU are pro-actively embracing the democratic process.

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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by: liberaldemdave @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 20:31:36 PM UTC

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Comparing UT to PVAMU is like comparing (3.00 / 1)

...a golf ball to a basketball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
UT enrollment 50,000 (netting 750 votes according to Kedron above)

http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/122...
PVAMU enrollment 8,000 (netting 472 DEM votes)

Let's keep this in perspective and try to think outside the comfort zone that is Travis County/Austin. This is a monumental success for PVAMU, the march organizers and the Waller County Democratic Party!

Kudos to our friends at PVAMU!

Go Panthers!

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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by: liberaldemdave @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:51:21 PM UTC

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I am praising them (3.00 / 1)

They kick butt.  Go Panthers!

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by: sonia @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:59:49 PM UTC

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My intention (3.00 / 1)

was not to downplay PVAMU.  It was to respond to Sonia's original report that only 472 or 2,000 got to vote.  I was trying to show that with only two voting machines and a continuous line, that was about the maximum you could push through the line.

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by: Kedron Touvell @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 02:20:26 AM UTC

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Good numbers (0.00 / 0)

And another point of comparison from what I have seen in news articles and data analysis here.

PVAMU enrollment 8,000- registered 3,000
UT enrollment 50,000- registered 28,000

The other point is that UT students are spread out all over Travis county with a registered student voter in every single precinct so UT campus, which a useful read on student voting, is very incomplete. I think PVAMU might be a little more densely concentrated (and would be easier to track if that voting site was next to the campus like it should).  

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 08:13:02 AM UTC

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That is absolutely amazing. (3.00 / 3)

Definitely the story of this primary. Prairie View rises up against decades of discrimination and fear. Waller County will never be the same.

Those students and their families have a lot to be proud of today.

Both Larry Joe and Dan Grant did the right thing and marched the entire way with the students. Mike McCaul was nowhere to be seen. CD 10 is turning blue this year.  

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by: Robert Ryland @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 07:53:24 AM UTC