“Texas voting: 2018’s first primary points to liberal enthusiasm,” announces a Washington Post headline today. But isn’t primary turnout a sign of enthusiasm and didn’t we just learn that the enthusiasm is occurring among liberals? If the nation follows the voting patterns of the Old Dominion, a Democratic wave will wash away the Republican majorities in Congress. Meanwhile, on Tuesday GOP primary voting appears to have hit a new high—breaking the record set in the Tea Party year of 2010. The much-discussed hypothetical “blue wave” may still come rolling in this November, but Tuesday’s results in Texas suggest that’s not the way to bet.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2018 16:41 UTC