Why Texas Education is at a Tipping Point

Well, there’s this:

Data notes for detail nerds like me:

• These percentages are based on registered voters.  We’re not even counting all the people who are eligible to vote but haven’t registered.  Are you one of them?  Fix that here: http://votetexas.gov/register-to-vote/

• I used the vote totals from the governor’s race as a proxy for party affiliation.  Those percentages held constant for nearly all state-wide and state-level (state representatives & senators) races.

• “Other” includes votes for third-party candidates for governor.

• See all the state-wide/state-level voting totals here.