Barack Obama held a huge rally at Reunion Arena in Dallas this afternoon, a day after an estimated 19,000 saw him speak at the Toyota Center in Houston last night. Dallas and Houston could both be fountains of votes for Obama in the critical Texas primary. Both cities potentially have a lot of young voters and African-American voters, two demographics in which Obama does very well.
And the early, early voting numbers show the makings of a stunning turnout in those cities.
Turnout on the first day of early voting was up all across Texas, according to initial numbers from the Secretary of State’s office. But Houston and Dallas were off the charts — the numbers show a 10-fold increase over 2004. In Harris County four years ago, only 728 people showed up for the Democratic primary on the first day of early voting. Yesterday it was 9,243.
In Dallas, the first-day turnout jumped from 913 in 2004 to 8,615 yesterday. That would seem good news for Obama. Other urban counties such as Travis (Austin) and Bexar (San Antonio) showed six-fold increases. In El Paso, it tripled.
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