{"id":33321,"date":"2018-11-07T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33321"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:17:31","slug":"the-turnout-was-huge-in-texas-imagine-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33321","title":{"rendered":"The turnout was huge in Texas … imagine that!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texans came out swinging during this midterm election.<\/p>\n

I am proud of the raw numbers, although the result in one key contest — Ted Cruz defeating Beto O’Rourke — saddens me.<\/p>\n

Ballots are still being counted, but get a load of this:\u00a0More than 8.2 million ballots were cast in this year’s midterm contest. In 2016, when we elected a new president, Texans cast about 8.5 million ballots.<\/p>\n

The turnout for the midterm election was virtually identical to the most recent presidential<\/em> election.\u00a0I consider that to be a most positive statement about Texans’ interest in this year’s election.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke talked a lot during the campaign about how his campaign was able to attract new Democratic<\/em> voters. That’s a good deal, from my standpoint. However, Republicans<\/em> also became energized, turning out for Cruz throughout rural Texas — which is the bastion of the state’s Republican majority.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is the bottom line. The total midterm election turnout rivaled the turnout for the state’s most recent presidential election. I consider that to be a good thing for Texas.<\/p>\n

If only the Cruz-O’Rourke result had ended differently \u2026<\/p>\n\n

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Texans came out swinging during this midterm election. I am proud of the raw numbers, although the result in one key contest — Ted Cruz defeating Beto O’Rourke — saddens me. Ballots are still being counted, but get a load of this:\u00a0More than 8.2 million ballots were cast in this year’s midterm contest. In 2016, … Continue reading The turnout was huge in Texas … imagine that!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7043,7576,4537,8085],"class_list":["post-33321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-beto-orourke","tag-midterm-election","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-election-turnout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33323,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions\/33323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}