SocraticGadfly: Texas voters: Worry as we worry, but don't vote as we vote (or don't show up)

January 31, 2023

Texas voters: Worry as we worry, but don't vote as we vote (or don't show up)

The Trib reports on a new Lyceum Poll that says large chunks of Texans worry about the future of democracy. And, per them, Strangeabbott's poll numbers are underwater.

BUT?

Because we're nowhere near an election, Lyceum doesn't limit this to "likely voters." In fact, per their methodology, they actively sought out people not registered to vote. They wound up with 24 percent of respondents not registered. Of the 76 percent who are? If 25 percent of them aren't likely voters, then only about 60 percent of the respondents are really involved at the voting level in Texas politics, and fewer than that have even a modicum of activism.

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