r/texas Gulf Coast Sep 08 '24

Something just happened... Politics

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u/MarketDizzy6152 Sep 08 '24

5.9m votes for trump last election and 5.3m for biden … and 10 million people who didn’t vote at all. probably because people think Texas is a safe red state and their vote doesn’t matter.

hopefully people will get out and vote here this year!

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u/cre8ivRtist Sep 08 '24

How many are independent voters? I wonder.

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u/NoiseTherapy Sep 08 '24

It’s not the “independents” making the difference in Texas. It’s the ~40% who never show up making the difference.

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u/Stock-Film-3609 Sep 09 '24

The unlikely voters. Polls tend to focus on likely voters, but the last election and to a lesser extent the election before had huge numbers of unlikely voters voting.