Week 1 of Early Voting has been off the charts! And while it's true that the Sanders vs. Clinton contest has been drawing the crowds on the Democratic side (UT's Flawn Academic Center is experiencing record turnout, for example), Republicans are also seeing their share of the groundswell.
New and returning Republican voters are coming in by the droves. As it stands currently, according to analysis done by Derek Ryan, up to 15 percent of voters have never voted in a previous (or recent) primary. And around 5 percent have skipped the last four general and primary elections.According to Ryan (and assuming that there are still many votes left to be cast on March 1), statewide Republican voter turnout may exceed 2.3 million (it was around 1.4 million in 2008 and 2012).
Cahnman's Musings provided a copy of Ryan's full report, which we also share below
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