The young folk like Beto O'Rourke
by digby
I'm trying very hard to keep an emotional distance from the polls and the analysis of early voting because it's all over the place. However, I did come across this and it perked me up:
El Paso is shattering early voting records this year because infrequent voters are flocking to the polls, analysis of county election data shows. Younger voters are also coming out in much larger numbers than in previous midterm elections.
More than 39,000 El Pasoans cast ballots in the first two days of early voting Monday and Tuesday, exceeding the turnout for all 12 days of early voting in the last midterm election in 2014.
With El Paso's Beto O'Rourke on the ballot as the Democrats' Senate nominee against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz, El Paso's normally lethargic electorate is staging an unprecedented turnout.
Among those who voted Monday and Tuesday, 52 percent did not vote in the 2014 midterm election, at least not in El Paso.
El Paso is O'Rourke's hometown so maybe this is just an endorsement of the homeboy. But I will be interested to see if the youth vote around Texas comes out to vote for Beto. If so, he should be considered a serious presidential possibility. Exciting that cohort is key to beating Donald Trump.
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