Posted on 11/01/2018 3:14:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf
since 2014, which is likely good news for Democratic Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke.
With just one week until the midterm elections, polls indicate that the El Paso congressman and Texas senatorial candidate has a 5-point gap to bridge in order to catch his competitor, incumbent Senator Ted Cruz. But O’Rourke has long insisted that a large chunk of his supporters, Texans under 30 and Hispanic voters, don’t show up in those polling numbers. New data from Target Smart, a political data firm, would appear to back his claims.
In a recent interview, O’Rourke told CBS News that a large turnout would help him because his voters had "just become a citizen, they're 40 years old, they've never voted in an election in their lifetime, but they're voting now. They only vote in presidential years, they're voting in a midterm for the first time. A lot of those folks are not reflected in the polls, but they're reflected at the polling site. And that's what's most important. That's how we win."
In an analysis of early voting numbers, Target Smart found that more than 200,000 people have already voted for the first time in Texas and the number of Hispanic voters has increased by more than 200 percent since 2014. Polls have been open since last Monday.
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The RCP average has Cruz ahead by 6.5 pts.
Only a few days ago the Youth had no cue what voting was and where you do it
Anchor babies.
Fake news strikes again. They are trying to motivate the kids. But it ends up working in reverse. They think...hey I can sleep in because we got this.
BTTT.
For starters, CNN doesn’t poll.
CNN creates polls.
VOTE CRUZ!!!!
The last CNN poll there has Cruz ahead by 7.
That would be Beto.
Let the cheating begin!
Definitely not an Alpha, so Beta
- Steve Buscemi
Texas State students somehow finagled extra early voting days. Guess they finally figured out how to push buttons on the machines.
Call him Bob. He really hates it when you do that ;-)
Where does CNN have Beta up 7?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/tx/texas_senate_cruz_vs_orourke-6310.html
Youngsters are not voting in these midterms like they did two years ago, and that is a good thing.
I Would doubt many under 30 are even going to make the effort.
Gather college kids in Texas will be voting for Ted Cruz.
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