| Texans for Kay, the official website for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, has an interesting interactive map of their email signup goals across all 254 Texas Counties. Oddly enough, I had argued for something like this back in the early days of the Rick Noriega for US Senate campaign when we were thinking of launching the "Project 254" minisite that never came into being.
Anyways- what's fascinating is where Kay is already meeting her sign-up goals (border, southern coast) and how those actual goals vary from traditional population density. I suspect they are aligned with Republican primary voting density.
- A grand total of 1 signup wanted in Presidio County in West Texas.
- 10 signups wanted in Loving County. That's like, what, a third of all voters?
- 211 signup goal in Fredericksburg and only 45 goal for Laredo, which has 7x as many voters.
- 687 signup goal in El Paso, 547 in Austin (the only urban county exceeding its goal)
- 3,701 goal for Fort Worth, 3,378 for Dallas, 6,219 for Houston.
Here's a screenshot of the current map. If you see any other interesting patterns, hit the comments.
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