March 03, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Tonight there will be an open thread.
If you live in one of the Super Tuesday states, you are now the official foreign correspondent in that state. When you report in please say what state you’re in and what the hell is happening.
If you don’t live in one of those states but if a good thought jumps into your head, please type it.
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
My wife reported right after lunch that when she went to vote in suburban Dallas the line to vote in the Democratic primary was much longer than that for the Republican primary. Very much a rock ribbed white conservative area (Grapevine). Maybe shows an enthusiasm gap? There’s rarely any wait to vote in white suburban Texas.
1In Suburban Boston area, the only thing I’m seeing is querying why the stellar female candidates didn’t do better…
2Is Texas a state where Republicans can quickly switch parties to vote in the Democratic primary with the hopes of screwing things up?
3Per WAPO @5:49 PM today (Tuesday): mysterious robocalls telling Texas voters that voting is tomorrow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/03/super-tuesday-live-updates/#link-I4ML4KN7GVFQ5PWD3XWSUNQ7JU
4Link: In the first box click on – full tracker to view delegates to win for each state.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/mar/03/super-tuesday-results-primaries-democratic-delegates-live
5Thanks, megasold, that’s a great link.
6…er, megasoid…I meant.
7In NC, Dem turnout has been much higher than repub…4 mailers from Bloomberg hit the mailbox 10 days after Early Voting began, and 2 more the next day, along with 2 for Klobuchar that arrived about the time she dropped out of the race!
Polls close at 7:30, so we shall see ‘What’s occurrin” (as one of my favorite TV characters says) then.
8Spoke with my grandson who is 4.
9Told his best friend Trump is a very, very bad man.
He does not make good choices.
Love that kid!!!
My girl Lizzie isn’t having a good night at all. She’s got enough money to keep going for a while; but, if you can’t even win your home state . . .
10Bloomberg is getting clobbered. I guess it takes more than money.
11Voted in a liberal stronghold in Harris County TX. Line for Dem primary, I estimated at well over 200. ‘Line’ for republican primary … 5 people. All 200 in the Dem line were respectable with no heckling but was really fun to watch the repulicans slink over to their voting booths 😉
12Colorado has gone for Sanders … 77% in … not my choice but I will vote for the front runner regardless!
13Polls don’t close until 8 PM PST, but 5 million have either already mailed in a ballot or have early-voted before today. Huge lines everywhere. No problems with voting apparatus, just masses of people voting. (We have just under 20 million registered voters.)
14Can’t wait for returns to start rolling in!
In Texas you can vote in either primary – but only one.
15election night humor from Randy Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llYbn83iZ48
16Thanks, Megasoid! Great resource for a political nerd! I love it!
17It took 3 tries to vote today. My precinct was closed for the primary, so I went to the next closest this morning. One and a half hour wait. Went to lunch, came back, still a one and a half hour wait. A nice poll worker told me another precinct a few miles away had a short line, so I went there. After half an hour I was able to cast my vote. The news is saying that people are STILL in line to vote in Houston. Sheesh.
18Proud to say Arkansas went for Biden.
19THE INTERCEPT AND “DEMOCRACY NOW” are teaming up for a live broadcast as Super Tuesday results come in. Interviews with politicos, candidate’s history and rhetoric, In this instance, Biden’s and Sanders.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/03/super-tuesday-analysis-livestream-democracy-now/
20Sorry, that feed ended at midnight EST.
21Election judge in Minnesota. Lots of Democrats, steady stream. Hardly any GOP. One of the latter wrote in Donald Duck.
Biden won my precinct and the state. Next to no problems statewide.
I think Minnesota Democrats are energized and passionate about this. Lots young, first time voters. Excited first generation nonwhite Americans. Inspiring.
22TX Senator- Dem primary– ~80% counted– looks like MJ Hegar is headed for a runoff with only ~23% in a crowded field.
TX-28 US House Dem primary– ~44% counted– CorporoDINO Henry Cuellar leading with 51.63% is in his closest race ever against newcomer progressive Jessica Cisneros. Cuellar seldom has a primary or GOP opponent, with a lock on the district.
Not sure how yet uncounted precincts will tally up, it’s a huge mostly rural district, with a big Laredo urban chunk [w/the Cuellar machine], and smaller San Antonio area one.
Interesting factoid– there were no public polls in this race, so not much info.
But Cuellar must have taken some internal polls, and gotten really spooked– my mailbox has been -stuffed- with fancy mailouts from the Cuellar campaign the last month or two; 20-30 of them, sometimes two a day, that Koch money at work [and I’m about as far from Laredo as you can get in the district].
Dem Pres– Biden? -WTF!- We may be doomed. He’s riding in on meaningless southern states that will never cast their Electoral College votes for him, or any Democrat.
Oh well, Blue, no matter who…
And the sniping at Tom Steyer is unjustified. Steyer ads are still running here, and they have been hardhitting anti-Trump ones that do more against IMPOTUS than any other candidate’s that I’ve seen yet.
Bloomberg’s quite high bought vote haul is just obscene, and ominous. Maybe he’ll actually do some good for Dems later on with that money. Right?
23AK Lynne @3, Texas voters aren’t “registered” to a party.
24You can vote in any given primary, but only for one party. IIRC, you can then crossover for any runoffs. And switch party in the next primary if you want.
The precinct workers put a mark [‘voted D or R’] on your voter ID card and tally sheet for each primary, so you can’t get back in line [excepting some past former counties- heheh].
At 6 am Wednesday I did some addition. Vote totals look like this. More or less.
Bernie: 3,465,194
25Biden: 4,059,135
Yeow!!! Massachusetts AND Alabama agreed with each other. Hell must have fore over!
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