• @Lost_My_Mind
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    83 months ago

    I’ve already admitted several times that I don’t understand the world anymore. I USED to understand the world. I don’t understand the world now. First Georgia became a swing state? Now TEXAS???

    I…I mean, I’ll take it, but…what?

    • @PunnyName
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      3 months ago

      Texas has more registered Democrats than Republicans, but they don’t vote in the same numbers. Largely due to voter suppression policies (like 1 ballot drop box per county).

      • @Lost_My_Mind
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        23 months ago

        Does texas not have early mail-in voting?

        • @GlendatheGayWitch
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          53 months ago

          Only for certain people. However we were the first state to have early in-person voting!

    • @GlendatheGayWitch
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      93 months ago

      Hillary only needed 5% more of the registered voters to win in 2016. Biden needed less than 4%. We just need people to turn out.

      In 2020, Biden received more votes in TX than NY and Trump received more votes in CA than TX.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      Texas is pretty dang purple. As others have mentioned, there is some serious voter suppression that goes on. Just take a look at that crazy law that targeted (basically, only) the county that Houston is in, allowing the state administration to throw out their votes.

    • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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      63 months ago

      Texas was majority Democrat into the 90s. It’s an urban, diverse and reasonably prosperous state. If it wasn’t for Bush becoming president, we’d probably have reached this point a decade ago.