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There’s one prediction about next month’s election you can take to the bank: Texans won’t show up. We’ve never been prolific voters, but over the past decade our turnout relative to the rest of the country has trended downward, finally bottoming out in the last midterm election at the lowest rate of any state. That’s right: Texas, where no politician seems capable of completing a sentence without dropping “freedom” into it, now sits at the end of the bench when it comes to the actual exercise of democracy’s fundamental freedom. In 2010 fewer than one in three Texans eligible to vote weighed in on a sweeping transfer of power to an unprecedentedly conservative faction of the Republican party.Yet at the same time that Texans are…
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There’s one prediction about next month’s election you can take to the bank: Texans won’t show up. We’ve never been prolific voters, but over the past decade our turnout relative to the rest of the country has trended downward, finally bottoming out in the last midterm election at the lowest rate of any state. That’s right: Texas, where no politician seems capable of completing a sentence without dropping “freedom” into it, now sits at the end of the bench when it comes to the actual exercise of democracy’s fundamental freedom. In 2010 fewer than one in three Texans eligible to vote weighed in on a sweeping transfer of power to an unprecedentedly conservative faction of the Republican party.Yet at the same time that Texans are…The post The Poll Truth appeared first on Texas Monthly.
