The only other thing this could be is Repbulican Party of TX mobilizing its voters to vote in the Dem primary for the candidate they may think would be easier to defeat. I think they have that kind of grassroots organization, but did they have time to put such a play in motion? The poll numbers in your piece support something I've been saying, and getting yelled at about, for a while. A substantial percentage of men across age, religious, ethnic and party lines will not vote for a woman for anything other than local office, regardless of the candidate's race.
Agree about certain men who will not bring themselves to vote for a woman being given power. It undercuts their whole theory of male superiority. It's why Republicans turned Hillary into everything they despise. We will find an answer to your theory about cross-overs trying to game the Democratic primaries on November 4. However, Chris Tackett, mentioned in Michelle's article, has the numbers to prove strong Republicans, i.e the kind of deep partisans who would play these kinds of games aren't pulling Democratic ballots in Tarrant County.
What does appear to be happening in Tarrant County as Tackett shows is "lean Republican" , sporadic primary voters and new voters are pulling Democratic ballots. So, in Tarrant County, the Democratic primary voters are showing a strong tilt toward all those voters the demographics put into either the "swing" or "no history" categories. What we might toss in an undifferentiated bucket of "Independents". I think the only thing the numbers show at this point is Tarrant County Republicans have pissed voters off big time.
Thank you, Michelle! This is all VERY exciting-- and those demographic numbers!!! Wow!!! Already shared on bsky. I have a civic duty downtown tomorrow afternoon.
The only other thing this could be is Repbulican Party of TX mobilizing its voters to vote in the Dem primary for the candidate they may think would be easier to defeat. I think they have that kind of grassroots organization, but did they have time to put such a play in motion? The poll numbers in your piece support something I've been saying, and getting yelled at about, for a while. A substantial percentage of men across age, religious, ethnic and party lines will not vote for a woman for anything other than local office, regardless of the candidate's race.
Agree about certain men who will not bring themselves to vote for a woman being given power. It undercuts their whole theory of male superiority. It's why Republicans turned Hillary into everything they despise. We will find an answer to your theory about cross-overs trying to game the Democratic primaries on November 4. However, Chris Tackett, mentioned in Michelle's article, has the numbers to prove strong Republicans, i.e the kind of deep partisans who would play these kinds of games aren't pulling Democratic ballots in Tarrant County.
What does appear to be happening in Tarrant County as Tackett shows is "lean Republican" , sporadic primary voters and new voters are pulling Democratic ballots. So, in Tarrant County, the Democratic primary voters are showing a strong tilt toward all those voters the demographics put into either the "swing" or "no history" categories. What we might toss in an undifferentiated bucket of "Independents". I think the only thing the numbers show at this point is Tarrant County Republicans have pissed voters off big time.
Thank you, Michelle! This is all VERY exciting-- and those demographic numbers!!! Wow!!! Already shared on bsky. I have a civic duty downtown tomorrow afternoon.