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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Say 'hello' to these crazy, mixed-up Missouri voters

Headline: PBS, 11/6/2024

Josh, too, will protect women whether they like or not.

The constitutional amendment also says any governmental interference in reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, is invalid. It also forbids the government from discriminating against using funding programs or activities pertaining to reproductive health care. The amendment also allows for laws that ban abortion after the point of fetal viability, with exceptions to protect the life of a pregnant person.
When asked for a statement on the amendment, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s office pointed to comments the senator, who won another termin the Senate is up for reelection this year, made during a debate in October.
“I think it’s absolutely vital that we protect our women and children in the state and that’s why I can’t support legislation that would allow sex changes for minors without parental consent,” Hawley said during an exchange on the matter.

Other Josh posts:

Meet the GOP troglodytes of the United States Senate. (12/9/2022)

Josh Hawley shows off his manhood by voting against Sweden and Finland NATO membership. (8/4/2022)

Josh Hawley sends an especially disturbing message to 20 million Americans. (4/24/2021)

Meet Josh Hawley, opportunitst. 3/8/2021
Let's sandwich Josh Hawley between two of the New York Post's greatest hits. (1/25/2021)

As rock star Josh Hawley whines from the CPAC stage, not sitting down, not shutting up. (3/6/2019)

Josh Hawley and the cretinous, homophobic company he keeps. (10/12/2018)

Tarrant County Texas jumps back into red column after flipping for Joe Biden in 2020

Donald Trump received 409,741 votes in 2020 and 425,650 votes in 2024, a 4% increase of 15,909.

Joe Biden received 411,567 votes in 2020, and Kamala Harris received 383,023 votes in 2024, a 7% decrease of 28,544.

Sources: Wikipedia, New York Times

Note: 2024 vote tallies are preliminary

Fort Woth Star-Telegram, 11/6/2023

Almost 839,000 Tarrant County residents (70.75% of eligible voters) cast ballots in the 2020 election. A substantially smaller portion of registered voters went to the polls this time around: according to unofficial tallies — not yet accounting for mail-in ballots — 63.59% of eligible Tarrant voters participated in the election. Overall, roughly 13,000 fewer votes were cast.

Original post starts here:

In 1984, Ronald Reagan won McHenry County by 34.7 percentage points.

In 2020, Donald Trump lost the county by 0.2 percentage points.

Wikipedia Election returns and population

3rd party votes: 28% in 1992, 7.5% in 1996. 5.1% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 15.3% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 63,820 more votes than he did in 2016, a 18% increase. Biden received 123,175 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 43%.

Trump's share of the vote decreased by 2.6 percentage points. Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 6.2 percentage points.

The population of Tarrant County has nearly doubled since 1980.