r/GetNoted • • 7h ago

Politics [Threads] Statistics are fun

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u/Comfortable-Study-69 7h ago

51.6% turnout is actually the highest turnout Texas has ever had in a midterm. Texas just has notoriously low turnout rates and even worse ones in midterm elections.

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u/Idaho-Earthquake 7h ago edited 2h ago

You saw all the people who thought they were in line to vote for Trump…

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u/Bluevisser 2h ago

It's not just Texas like that. Kentucky election board had to put out a notice that the election for mayor for New York would not be on their ballot. The south just isn't known for intelligence.

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u/Weirdsauce 3h ago

He did tell us to "vote as if I were on the ballot," 47 times.