all the doubting here makes me think that if james wins that cons party will have a meltdown
That’s why I want him to win, I want him to win to own the chudservatives
“X to turn Texas State Blue” has to be the most reused political headline of all time.
Take my click!
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So when I read your comment fast, I just thought to myself “alright, I can dig the energy. But you do you homie.”
It translates to “Texas has a massive media markets and consultants get 20% on when they sell an ad-buy on behalf of a candidate, so lets throw money at Texas because it makes us more money” when you translate it to DNC consultant.
It’s not turning anything until we get rid of Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Best Talarico can do is one of those three. This state is so fucked up. Our elections are fucked.
Talarico is running against Paxton for which is going to replace Cornyn.
Gina Hinojosa is running against Abbott, the limited polling so far has her losing by 3-8%. Which is within striking distance depending on what else goes on. I would assume that if Hinojosa wins, Vikki Goodwin will beat Patrick.
This is nice. We have to win harder than they can cheat.
https://texaspublicopinionresearch.substack.com/p/new-poll-james-talarico-leads-ken
I moved from Austin to Jackson Hole, Wyoming after 23 years there. Wyoming is still red, but at least they leave me the fuck alone. Texas is always all up in your shit.
Especially for a state that’s supposed to be all about rugged individualism, they can’t stay out of your pants
There is next to 0 public land in Texas too, people like to compare it to the western states and its just wrong. The state of small government (for corporations and civil protections)
Near 0 federal public land. Texas has a lot of state land, and the Land Commissioner is a powerful statewide elected office.
This situation is a result of the terms of the 1845 accession when the Republic of Texas entered the Union.
And we’re supposed to be fervent conservationists with respect for our parks and wildlife, but you can’t eat a fish you catch here without getting poisoned by 20 kinds of chemicals
you can’t eat a fish you catch here without getting poisoned by 20 kinds of chemicals
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Hey, at least it’s not AngryRedSnapper
I’m sorry.
The only thing Texas has ever turned blue:
I’ll believe it when I see it. You can serve filet mignon and Texans will still vote for feces on a platter. Example: Ted Cruz.
All the people in here commenting, like “oh no, there’s a hope! Step on it!”
Wouldn’t want people to actually get fired up and vote, now would we?
Repeated false hope doesn’t fire up anybody. It demoralizes people.
This is Lemmy. It’s terminally online doomers and pompous Linux dweebs.
They don’t want to be traumatized by marketing campaigns, yet again, that give them hope, only to have reality crush it mercilessly. It’s defensive, and protective, and makes complete sense, living in a hellscape where politic and corporate lying is ever present and hazardous. They don’t want others to be hurt.
So you’re really just shitting on victims for trying to protect others.
You’re making a huge amount of assumptions about the people expressing doomerism. They could just be assholes, or bots, or workers pushing messaging for the political opposition, or non-citizens who are treating US politics like a soap opera.
All you’ve done is created a strawman, claimed it has been traumatized by politics and asserted that this strawman is every person that’s making cynical doomer comments.
The person that you’re responding too is engaging with the reality of the thread, you’re manufacturing a justification to feel self-righteous and outraged.
Ive been hearing this since Bush and it hasn’t once been close. So much like my football team, I’ll believe when I actually see some results
It’s really funny as an outsider. It’s been decades of “Texas is going to go blue” lol
Doubt it, I’m not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They’ve had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.
Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don’t feed them the sound byte.
The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it’s really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.
And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There’s a good chance that if he leaves office, he’ll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there’s not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.
So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.
“I’d rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I’d give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children”
Mhmm yep. Very normal society.
…Working as intended.
Straight party voting was eliminated in Texas in 2020, at least
The point was 99% the vote counting fraud though.
Yes, though I’d really like to see some evidence besides this single image
I’ve seen maybe two other images of the “Party = D, Senator = Cruz” ballot “error”, but that’s the only one I saved (also because I know who took it).
When I went back to see what had come from the “investigation”, my heart just sank when I saw that the press had simply swallowed the line given to them by the Abbott-appointed Texas Secretary of State: “oops, no big deal”.
Who did the person who took this send it too? Did they name the county responsible for their elections? If this is real, I’m having a hard time understanding how I would have never seen it as a Texan plugged into subversive communities
Lady I know from Twitter posted it on there, and took it in Harris County.
And I don’t know why you’re so concerned about its veracity; the issue was widely reported on in Texas during the 2018 election. Search for that election and the phrase “vote flipping” and you should find out all you need to know-- well, at least all that Texas election officials were willing to admit to.
The same thing happened in Cruz’s 2012 election-- same voting machine manufacturer, too-- although it was more widely reported on in 2018. They’ve cheated for him twice now.
As a Californian who’s only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.
I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don’t even need a USB drive now.
Timing also matters. When things are shitty people want change.
Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely “wish I knew how to quit you” with them.
Is he a liberal or progressive?
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fuck off with this maybe could be shit.
I’m convinced this kind of coverage is engineered for no purpose than to make people go “Well, it looks like a shoe in, so I dont have to go deal with the crowds” and next thing you know republican has won by 30%
Oh yeah, that’s why a republican wins texas by 30% in a midterm. lol
A lot of shitting on the possibility here. People have a right to be skeptical, but it’s also hard to overstate how many moderate Republicans Ken Paxton has already alienated in Texas. Paxton has impeached by the Republican-led Texas House for his criminal activity. There are large swathes of suburban voters who may typically vote Republican but who would skip right over Paxton on that ballot.
At the same time, Talarico’s ability to speak confidently and comfortably about religion and in churches is giving him a huge leg-up in making inroads with those same disaffected suburbanites.
The calculus is not the same as it was with Cruz vs O’Rourke in 2018. Talarico’s prospects today are solidly better than O’Rourke’s were at any point during his campaign.
A lot of shitting on the possibility here.
For good reason, this claim is made constantly.
I wrote more beyond those first 8 words
Yeah, providing nothing that could convince a realistic person that Texas is “blue”.
I always felt like O’Rourke was mostly propped up by the party. I never really thought he had a serious shot at winning a statewide election.
Talarico is a genuine Christian. Try as they might, the Christian-ist Christians of Christian-By-God-Texas can’t make a dent in his actual real Christian love, and members of their flocks are noticing that. I see countless posts saying Jesus was a progressive, but precious few politicians that embody that. I hope he does well. That said, this is Texas. They may hate Paxton, but to they hate him enough to vote for gulp A DEMOCRAT!?
It was over when he said hell yah he would take their ARs.
