I've heard of high turnout...

...but this is ridiculous! With 1 percent of the Texas precincts reporting, it's Obama 437,875, Clinton 306,092.

Damn -- those must be some big precincts. Either that, or Joe Kennedy lives, because if 1% of the vote equals 743,967 votes cast, that would mean a grand total of 74 million Democrats went to the polls in Texas, a 580% turnout. :)

UPDATE: I gather from the Texas Secretary of State that some counties have reported all of their "early votes" as a single "precinct." That would explain the oddly huge numbers.

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[Mad Max, Esquire]

GObama!

[Leanna Loomer]

They say that us folks down in Texas
Boast of our home in the West
You'll hear us a-sayin' in Texas
That things are the biggest and best

[from a 1960s song, Billy Sol Estes]

[Condor]

Everything's bigger in Texas, and the turnout is no exception.

[Joe Loy]

It's obviously the Early Voting results - a huge chunk of the Total turnout - and the Cablenewsies idiots, by not understanding what their Own numbers are, are potentially missing a Big Call, namely, Obama Wins Texas.

[Brendan Loy]

Maybe, Dad, but: 1) not all counties are reporting early voting results, so the numbers may be deceiving if Hillary's counties aren't reporting yet (I'm not sure); 2) the exit polls supposedly show Hillary winning large margins among late deciders, so this gap may narrow substantially; and, most importantly, 3) ignorant bloviations of the talking heads notwithstanding, I actually think the "decision desks" do know what the numbers mean, so I suspect they aren't missing anything obvious.