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Bexar county early votes surpassed yesterday's count. 38.6 K votes today. 74k+ votes in only 2 days.
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Shifty Pony posted:I think a lot of the waits on Austin have to do with people seeing a line and naturally being inclined to stand in it just in case it is a cool new food truck. In 2014 I went to vote at one of the HEB locations in Austin. The line was about 10 deep. We were waiting for 10+ minutes, 0 people from the line were entering to vote, two women in their late 40s to early 50s were in the front talking about Vietnam, not going in despite several people exiting the door, people told them to go inside, they responded with "nobody has told us to come in. We are waiting." The line was getting angrier while the two women in front wouldn't let anyone past to check. Eventually, people working inside came out and asked why nobody was voting.
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Oct 26, 2016 06:41
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A lovely Reporter posted:Jesus, why is it so hard to find out what districts you're in? I managed to find it, but that was needlessly difficult. http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/Address.aspx It should also be on your sample ballot from your county registrar.
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Oct 26, 2016 06:50
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Why is CapMetro doing this?
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Oct 26, 2016 09:20
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to showcase Austin's pathetic hipsters
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Oct 26, 2016 14:06
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nikitakhrushchev posted:Why is CapMetro doing this? To warn newcomers.
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Oct 26, 2016 15:06
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nikitakhrushchev posted:Why is CapMetro doing this? You're forgetting that like 90% of White Austin looks at this dude and thinks "Look at the interesting and vibrant culture we have, I wish to participate in it" rather than "This city should be given back to nature"
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Oct 26, 2016 15:07
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skipdogg posted:Bexar county early votes surpassed yesterday's count. 38.6 K votes today. 74k+ votes in only 2 days. +3 votes for Dread Abuela in Bexar, and all the other downballot races. Also Joaquin Castro had no Republican opponent, just a Libertarian and a Green. Given how much Republicans control Texas, it's hilarious they can't even find a sacrificial lamb to run against him.
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Oct 26, 2016 15:31
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+1 for Hillary and the other downballot dems from me today.
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Oct 26, 2016 15:33
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Spacebump posted:In 2014 I went to vote at one of the HEB locations in Austin. The line was about 10 deep. We were waiting for 10+ minutes, 0 people from the line were entering to vote, two women in their late 40s to early 50s were in the front talking about Vietnam, not going in despite several people exiting the door, people told them to go inside, they responded with "nobody has told us to come in. We are waiting." The line was getting angrier while the two women in front wouldn't let anyone past to check. Eventually, people working inside came out and asked why nobody was voting. "Women" "Late 40s to early 50s" "wouldn't let anyone past to check" Clearly no libertarians were in that line. Or men. I'd planned to continue my lifelong tradition of never voting, but the wife made me register earlier this year, and now this thread is making me want to vote Trump.
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Oct 26, 2016 15:38
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Bushiz posted:You're forgetting that like 90% of White Austin looks at this dude and thinks "Look at the interesting and vibrant culture we have, I wish to participate in it" rather than "This city should be given back to nature" Ever since the great Californian migration started happening Austin has gone from a "small town" with a quirky culture to a bunch of idiot hipsters and closet republicans/libertarians pretending to be liberals. If any of these people actually cared about liberal politics we would have better public transportation, better support for the homeless population, and protections for people who might lose their homes due to gentrification. Instead its a bunch of NIMBYS and FYGM assholes who want to live in the predominantly white side of town while "vacationing" over at the east side's "cool hip new bar scene." Just look what happened to Rainey street in the course of 5 years. Now Lustre Pearl has moved way out to Cesar Chavez and Pleasant Valley to start the process all over again. And while I love a quiet, chill bar. There is no way that area stays a quiet little neighborhood with a bar attached. All the cool crazy things that Austin was "known for" back in the day have either packed up and moved to Dallas/Houston, or just no longer exist. Edit: Forgot to mention that everyone is a real estate flipper, which drives up the cost of housing even more than all the people moving here on a daily basis. Nevermind that house flipping is just a means of taking affordable, perfectly good (or slightly dated) homes and driving their cost up by doing unneeded renovations. I don't know how anyone can look at a "newly renovated" house and say, "Yes, I would love to pay you a 50,000 profit on 5,000-10,000 worth of renovations I could have done myself." Edit 2: Yeah I guess I'm ranting...but we will build a wall and make California pay for it. Rabble fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 15:45
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Rabble posted:Ever since the great Californian migration started happening Austin has gone from a "small town" with a quirky culture to a bunch of idiot hipsters and closet republicans/libertarians pretending to be liberals. If any of these people actually cared about liberal politics we would have better public transportation, better support for the homeless population, and protections for people who might lose their homes due to gentrification. Instead its a bunch of NIMBYS and FYGM assholes who want to live in the predominantly white side of town while "vacationing" over at the east side's "cool hip new bar scene." Just look what happened to Rainey street in the course of 5 years. Now Lustre Pearl has moved way out to Cesar Chavez and Pleasant Valley to start the process all over again. And while I love a quiet, chill bar. There is no way that area stays a quiet little neighborhood with a bar attached. I hate Californians as much as the next Texan but 1) lol and 2) Austin has always been full of NIMBYs The city is changing because people want to live here and the old configuration of how it was set up could not hold all those people. Unless you want to build a wall to stop people from coming in, some neighborhoods are going to get more dense. Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 15:46
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Another +16 here for Trump (myself, the old lady, my sugar baby, my sugar baby baby daddy, my three kids, my cousins from el paso, my stepfather Jared, my aunt and her three estranged adopted children) in my line there were about sixty, give or take, african american fellas and their purseholders, talking jive smack about that old turkey. A fun experience, and Im glad to be a part of it.
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Oct 26, 2016 15:46
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Number Ten Cocks posted:"Women" "Late 40s to early 50s" "wouldn't let anyone past to check"  Go back to Games
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Oct 26, 2016 16:02
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Welp, looks like the second day of early voting was even heavier than the first.quote:Harris County — the largest county in Texas — reported record-breaking voter turnout numbers on Monday and then broke that record on Tuesday. If this keeps up for another day or two, there is going to be some very serious sweat coming from the statewide Republican candidates.
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Oct 26, 2016 16:08
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e_angst posted:Welp, looks like the second day of early voting was even heavier than the first. I'm pretty sure there already is. It's just gonna become even more visible as time goes on.
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Oct 26, 2016 16:11
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Another vote for Hillary today in Denton. Lots of olds. Mostly women. Also a cute gay boy in line. I mean ... two cute gay boys if you include me. So really I don't see a significant difference between the big Texas cities, or at least the differences have become less apparent over time. I'm not sure if this is the cities changing, or my own perception of people and the relative (lack of) differences between them from place to place. And the same economic trends in Austin are also occurring in Dallas, Houston, etc. Though I did notice a lot of friends in Austin (and me) moving elsewhere because these trends are more extreme there. This started happening when we hit our late 20s. The ones who stayed had jobs that tied them to Austin specifically. But there's a Catch 22 where you find yourself paying a premium to enjoy the things Austin has, which means having less money -- or working more hours to make the same money while having less time to enjoy the things you're paying a premium to do -- than living somewhere else. And the things you're paying a premium for start to have less appeal when you're not 21.
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Oct 26, 2016 16:12
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And turns out I'll be in Austin for election day since I'll be in the area for work. Gonna watch the returns with a commie friend who works for an enviro group. Who wants to hit up some insufferable parties downtown? I bet the Tribune has one. If Hillary somehow wins, which I very much doubt, the TX Dem party is gonna go loving NUTS though.
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Oct 26, 2016 16:15
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Wikkheiser posted:And turns out I'll be in Austin for election day since I'll be in the area for work. Gonna watch the returns with a commie friend who works for an enviro group. Who wants to hit up some insufferable parties downtown? I bet the Tribune has one. If Hillary somehow wins, which I very much doubt, the TX Dem party is gonna go loving NUTS though. Scholtz Garden is going to be a loving madhouse.
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Oct 26, 2016 16:24
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Honestly I want a really big TV, wireless connectivity and a bottle of wine.
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Oct 26, 2016 17:12
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When I voted on Monday (Harris) very few of the voters were middle-aged+ white guys. All of the ones shout-talking about 'media these days' were though. By the way, how hosed up is it that we vote on judges, let alone with loving partisan candidates?
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Oct 26, 2016 17:43
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Well, drat. I was hoping to squeeze in a vote during my lunch break today, but the line at my local Dallas library branch was out the door. Work is only giving us leave to vote on Election Day.
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Oct 26, 2016 17:43
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45-38 http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/new-texas-polls-shows-trump-with-small-but-safe-le/nsx2d/ quote:In perhaps the most surprising result, Trump had a larger lead with Texas women than with Texas men. Trump led 43 percent to 39 percent with men, and 46 percent to 38 percent with women. Trumpmoms
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Oct 26, 2016 19:00
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Aliquid posted:45-38 Proof of the generational decline in overt racism.
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Oct 26, 2016 20:19
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17% of African American voters seems pretty weird to me when he's in low single digits elsewhere.
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Oct 26, 2016 20:19
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Badger of Basra posted:17% of African American voters seems pretty weird to me when he's in low single digits elsewhere. It's possible they didn't sample enough black voters to get a good margin of error. Likely Voter Screen is probably another factor too.
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Oct 26, 2016 20:23
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FBS posted:Well, drat. I was hoping to squeeze in a vote during my lunch break today, but the line at my local Dallas library branch was out the door. Work is only giving us leave to vote on Election Day. Some of our early voting locations are open Saturday and Sunday this weekend in Bexar county, maybe they are in your area? thatdarnedbob posted:By the way, how hosed up is it that we vote on judges, let alone with loving partisan candidates? I've always thought it weird that Judges, and Law Enforcement are partisan candidates. I'm for voting on judges though.
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Oct 26, 2016 20:24
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It's not weird at all! When you've already homogenized the voting population through Jim Crow, a partisan election is the easiest way to legally stack the justice system for the ruling castes
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Oct 26, 2016 20:55
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Badger of Basra posted:I hate Californians as much as the next Texan but 1) lol and 2) Austin has always been full of NIMBYs We DO want to build a wall though.
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Oct 26, 2016 22:36
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+2 for Iron Abuela in Harris County between me and the misses Went really fast, like 10 minutes in and out at the early voting location in Westchase Houston even though we were probably 40-50 deep in line when we got there and the line kept growing
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Oct 26, 2016 22:53
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I voted in my white flight suburb at 8am Tuesday and there was no one else there! Shocking!
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Oct 26, 2016 23:50
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I voted in my white flight suburb at 8am Tuesday and there was no one else there! Shocking! They were all lined up outside a private school in SUVs to drop Hayden and Kayden off Proud Christian Mom fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 00:19
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Voted at 2pm this afternoon in Pflugerville at the tax office and the line was around the building. About 90 minutes from parking to driving off. There were only like 4 old white guys that I could see, but I was sandwiched between two of them. One of them spent nearly half an hour ranting about private schools having tax exemption on their land, but then railed about entitlement culture. I don't know wtf.
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Oct 27, 2016 01:30
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Proud Christian Mom posted:They were all lined up outside a private school in SUVs to drop Hayden and Kayden off I live in RRISD, so if you're paying for ac private school and living in the'burbs you're doing it very wrong.
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Oct 27, 2016 01:34
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Made my wife vote at 6PM today in Austin, still no line. In/out in like 10 minutes
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Oct 27, 2016 02:07
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Also, I live in Pflugerville. My address reads Pflugerville, 78660. But for some reason I don't get to vote for Pflugerville mayor, or any local seats. I don't get any Austin ones either. Am I in some weird DMZ between Austin and Pflugerville? I am on the very southwest side, at 35 and 1825.
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Oct 27, 2016 02:10
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Doom Rooster posted:Also, I live in Pflugerville. My address reads Pflugerville, 78660. But for some reason I don't get to vote for Pflugerville mayor, or any local seats. I don't get any Austin ones either. Am I in some weird DMZ between Austin and Pflugerville? Probably out of city limits and mostly in an ETJ like I am. https://www.austintexas.gov/department/extraterritorial-jurisdiction
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Oct 27, 2016 02:30
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Voting in Steiner Ranch tomorrow. I'm actually hoping the line is long to people-watch.
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Oct 27, 2016 02:39
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In Austin, if you happen to be near the N. Lamar/Braker Ln area, there was no line when I voted today at the supermarket in the Chinatown shopping center there.
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https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/791504960533860352 https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/791505605361934337 https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/791506723315998720
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