Election return data for Texas (November 2014) ~
More telling, only 24.8 percent of the state's voting age population bothered to vote at all, and only 14.8 percent of the Texas VAP voted for Abbott.
Greg Abbott is actively supported by less than 15 percent of Texans who are old enough to vote in state elections. That means 86.2 percent of the VAP voted for someone else or didn't give a shit one way or another.
The numbers were even worse for Danny (Goeb) Patrick, who only received 2,718,406 votes, fewer than Abbott. This is why Republicans like low-turnout elections in which white people over age 50 vote in large numbers, while younger people (under 30), lower-income people, and non-white people stay away on election day.
- Voting age population of Texas (May 2014): 18.915 million
- Registered voters in Texas (November 2014): 14.026 million
- Total votes cast for governor of Texas: 4.689 million
- Total votes received by Greg Abbott (Republican): 2.790 million
More telling, only 24.8 percent of the state's voting age population bothered to vote at all, and only 14.8 percent of the Texas VAP voted for Abbott.
Greg Abbott is actively supported by less than 15 percent of Texans who are old enough to vote in state elections. That means 86.2 percent of the VAP voted for someone else or didn't give a shit one way or another.
The numbers were even worse for Danny (Goeb) Patrick, who only received 2,718,406 votes, fewer than Abbott. This is why Republicans like low-turnout elections in which white people over age 50 vote in large numbers, while younger people (under 30), lower-income people, and non-white people stay away on election day.
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