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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ummmm.

In 2020, 11 million people voted.

Texas is going blue. Vote!

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how many were registered though?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

2 million swifties have arrived with more on the way.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

she endorsed Biden in 2020 as well.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so at the same ratio you’re looking at about 12.4m voters so far.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A ~1.2 million increase in turnout could be significant enough to change the president and or senate race

Keep in mind trump only won texas by ~600 thousand votes in 2020

And Cruz won by only ~200 thousand votes in 2018

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Cruz literally abandoned them to freeze.

Shit even AOC didn't do that, and she is in New York. lmao

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The difference is that AOC is a human being and not a blobfish who watched someone make fun of his wife

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Hey now dont diss the blobfish, you wouldnt look good in an under pressurized environment either. Also I thought we all agreed Ted Cruz was the Zodiac killer.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another million might've made us blue already. Trump had the smallest GOP margin of victory in Texas in decades! Texas picked Carter, LBJ, and JFK for President! If Harris wins Texas then there's basically no way Trump can sue his way to victory.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This would be the required level of over achievement to fuck over the Republicans. It may even be the parties first sign of death, if they lose Texas they will either need to reform or die.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck, I hope so - but I'm not optimistic. When Obama won in 2008 along with the House and a super majority in the Senate, I thought "finally, the death of the Republican party. Surely they'll be forced to move to the left to have any chance of winning another election."

Instead they doubled down, created the TEA Party, and eventually got is to where we are today.

"Nuh uh, it was the illegal immigrants we didn't kill with the razor wire", Ken Paxton after Harris wins Texas, probably.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Let's turn the dial as far as we can to the blue side! No complacency!