| This is going to be a daily feature through the early vote period of the TX primary. The following link takes you to a spreadsheet based on the numbers from the Secretary of State's website that shows the early vote totals for the 15 counties with the highest numbers of registered voters: Texas Primary Early Vote Totals Through 7 Days
Day-by-Day Analysis of Early Vote Totals Follow those two links or look at the chart below. As a point of clarification, the comparison to 2004 is looking at early vote totals 7 days in to the early vote in 2004. Its the best comparison we can make: | TX Dem Primary Early Vote Through 7 Days (2/19 thru 2/25) | | Top Fifteen Counties w/ Registered. Dem. voters | Registered Voters | Total In-Person And Mail Voters '08 | Total % Early Vote '08 | Total In- Person And Mail Voters '04 | Total %
Early
Vote '04 | Increase
2008
over
2004 | | Harris | 1,804,641 | 81,843 | 4.54% | 8,607 | 0.47% | 73,236 | | Dallas | 1,114,002 | 59,433 | 5.34% | 5,461 | 0.48% | 53,972 | | Tarrant | 890,412 | 41,850 | 4.70% | 8,607 | 0.47% | 33,243 | | Bexar | 867,084 | 50,467 | 5.82% | 7,748 | 0.90% | 42,719 | | Travis | 541,315 | 44,607 | 8.24% | 5,461 | 0.48% | 39,146 | | Collin | 378,730 | 17,895 | 4.73% | 1,291 | 0.39% | 16,604 | | El Paso | 368,579 | 27,693 | 7.51% | 8,860 | 2.51% | 18,833 | | Denton | 329,099 | 13,283 | 4.04% | 982 | 0.34% | 12,301 | | Hidalgo | 287,988 | 29,440 | 10.22% | 17,178 | 6.68% | 12,262 | | Fort Bend | 267,583 | 16,437 | 6.14% | 829 | 0.36% | 15,608 | | Montgomery | 224,321 | 6,413 | 2.86% | 585 | 0.29% | 5,828 | | Williamson | 206,334 | 10,423 | 5.05% | 1,139 | 0.63% | 9,284 | | Nueces | 189,534 | 10,994 | 5.80% | 4,593 | 2.40% | 6,401 | | Galveston | 180,288 | 9,126 | 5.06% | 1,347 | 0.77% | 7,779 | | Total | 7,815,906 | 419,904 | 5.53% | 72,688 | 1.59% | 347,216 | Once again, the key points to take away from this chart: - 419,904 Democrats have already voted through Monday -- 347,216 more voters than at this time in 2004. I'm never going to stop being amazed by these figures.
- Ken Molberg, a longtime friend and expert of all things Dallas County, pointed this out in the comments to yesterday's post:
Dallas County broke the '06 total vote yesterday, with over 57,000 early votes (not counting the mail ballots). We've looked at about 55,000 of those, and as best we can tell, virtually half have no '02, '04 or '06 primary history. Less than 3,000 have previous R primary history over the same period. - Harris County -- the third largest county in the United States-- is on pace to shatter the total vote from 2004 just with early voters. Harris County is working to turn blue in November, much like Dallas did in '06 and Travis did in '04, and this record turnout is sure to help that.
As they say at my alma matter, "Texas, Texas, yee-haw!" |
