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zoux posted:Actually it would probably be incompetent to run races in zero chance districts and spend limited state Democratic funds on them. Then why did TDP spend money on Davis and VDP? 
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We were spending other states' Dem Party funds on those.
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zoux posted:There are 72 candidates for Austin city council because we just moved to single member districts so it's 12 open seats. Signs outside the polling places are out of control. When there are that many signs, I don't even know what the point is. The fact that it's Austin and that there are so many candidates running has lead to a larger-than-average share of "characters" in the race. My favorite? This guy:  His web site and youtube videos are pretty crazy-pants as well.
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e_angst posted:The fact that it's Austin and that there are so many candidates running has lead to a larger-than-average share of "characters" in the race. My favorite? This guy: Haha I saw that from afar when I went to go get groceries the other day and forgot to get a closer look. But I thought, geometric figures on the sign, bet that's a crazy person.
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Whups. quote:Four days before federal authorities arrested him on federal weapons charges and found ammonium nitrate in his South Texas hotel room, border militia leader Kevin Lyndel "K.C." Massey chatted and posed for a photo with Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott at a campaign event in Brownsville.
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Whoops nothing, He'll win by an even larger margin because gently caress this states politics, now the one good thing left, its roads, are turning to poo poo and abbot is gonna be railing against the Man in the whitehouse until libertarians grow wings, hail satan.
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  quote:In a memo early Friday by Battleground senior adviser Jeremy Bird, a former top field organizer for Barack Obama, the Democratic group claimed early voting had increased by more than a third so far and that Democratically leaning voters — non-whites in particular — were turning out in much larger numbers than four years ago. 
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I took a photo of the sign absurdity in Austin: It wraps around the corner too until lit hits the property adjacent to the early voting location.
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Omi-Polari posted:Here's how Austin suburbanites do race and gay baiting! ugh, I'm in district 6 and still have no idea who to vote for. Who's the least horrible person with a chance of winning?
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Scrot Eel posted:ugh, I'm in district 6 and still have no idea who to vote for. Who's the least horrible person with a chance of winning? Stillwell and Flannigan are both good choices. Not sure which has a better chance of winning but Stillwell seems pretty progressive and his endorsements for down ticket races mostly lined up with the choices I made independently.
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Shifty Pony posted:I took a photo of the sign absurdity in Austin: That's pretty impressive, the HEB at Oltorf/South Congress has a pretty good sign density too.
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Gotta love the daily show pissing on the audience the warm reality of Ted Cruz and his boys running this state.
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Stillwell's kid goes to school with my daughter, I'll have to chat him up sometime.
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Randandal posted:This thread's quiet. We're too afraid to look at, or even speculate about, how bad it's going to be.
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Alkydere posted:We're too afraid to look at, or even speculate about, how bad it's going to be. Lol if you had deluded yourself into thinking any statewide Democrat would win. Davis got Hispanics 68-32 which is decent enough .
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Badger of Basra posted:Lol if you had deluded yourself into thinking any statewide Democrat would win. Davis got Hispanics 68-32 which is decent enough . Oh, I knew there wasn't going to be any chance. It's just that I really, really do not want to look forward at how bad it's gonna be.
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Alkydere posted:Oh, I knew there wasn't going to be any chance. It's just that I really, really do not want to look forward at how bad it's gonna be.
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I take solace in the fact that my vote for district 3 rep mattered for sure, only 14 votes between the top two according to the results on the statesman website.
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With 16% reporting, the governor's race looks like: Abbott: 59.2%. Davis: 39.2%. Context: In comparison, the last race finished with Rick Perry at 54.97% and Bill White at 42.28%.
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I voted for the reanimated corpse of the first President of the Republic of Texas and it looks like he lost too.
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Omi-Polari posted:With 16% reporting, the governor's race looks like: Yeah, but that 16% is West Bumfuck precincts and early votes. Once the big counties start reporting, then you can really despair.
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Oil! posted:I voted for the reanimated corpse of the first President of the Republic of Texas and it looks like he lost too. A shameful Texan. -- Abbott is leading in Harris and Bexar with more than 30 percent counting in each. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7lGGhHZSZs BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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You know those idiots who instead of buying a better car keep their piece of poo poo and just put nice rims on it? Texas just did that with the Governor's office.
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D-Pad posted:You know those idiots who instead of buying a better car keep their piece of poo poo and just put nice rims on it? Now I want Abbott to fit his wheelchair with spinners.
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It's super bad because Davis was supposed to improve on White's performance, a signal that Texas was gradually turning purple and worth it for outside investors. Instead she's doing worse. Meltdown. Worst case scenario.
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Maybe running a bland white person in a minority-majority state is not the best strategy!
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I have some friends that work for bgtx and this is probably very bad news for them.
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computer parts posted:Maybe running a bland white person in a minority-majority state is not the best strategy! "Not the best strategy" pretty much sums up the Texas Democratic party.
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She's still falling! It's a race to see how low she'll go. But a lot of the Travis votes haven't come in yet, it looks like.computer parts posted:Maybe running a bland white person in a minority-majority state is not the best strategy! Democrats nationally bet the farm on women's issues, because of insulting things Republicans said last cycle which cost them seats. But because the Republicans have toned down the social stuff this time, doesn't rebound to the Dems' benefit. Abbott is winning with women, which will make the walls of the TDP's headquarters start vomiting.
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Interesting thing: Austin might elect its first eco-socialist to the city council, Susana Almanza, who is leading in District 3. Former Brown Beret, too. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Omi-Polari posted:Interesting thing: Austin might elect its first eco-socialist to the city council, Susana Almanza, who is leading in District 3. She's the one running against her brother, right? I'm not sure if she'll be able to win the runoff, but I would be glad for her to. My friend in District 4 is going to be running against a crazy Alex Jones-ite in a runoff, so I'm hoping Austin doesn't get to Weird and he can win easy. Also we so far have a 25% turnout for our city council races, which sounds bad until you realize that last time it was like 2%.
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Badger of Basra posted:She's the one running against her brother, right? I'm not sure if she'll be able to win the runoff, but I would be glad for her to. My friend in District 4 is going to be running against a crazy Alex Jones-ite in a runoff, so I'm hoping Austin doesn't get to Weird and he can win easy.
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Omi-Polari posted:She's the one. A friend of mine has been pounding pavement for her for weeks. The nice thing about 10-1 is that you get a more diverse council, instead of the same establishment NIMBY liberals. There will still be establishment liberals, but maybe an actual leftist, an actual Republican (maybe). That makes for better politics. Agreed. I loved when the council tried to push their dumb 7/3/1 half-measure, that was a riot.
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So here's the view from a conservative think tanker in Austin:quote:Here’s your rundown of just how big the Greg Abbott victory is in TX-Gov this evening. Whatever side you’re on, it’s a historic, dominating win — nearly a 20-point margin between him and Wendy Davis at this writing with c.60% of precincts in. All the following numbers are subject to change, of course. Nevertheless:
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computer parts posted:Maybe running a bland white person in a minority-majority state is not the best strategy! Dream Team! Dream Team!
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How does a state with a ballooning hispanic population overwhelmingly elect a racist and whatever Abbot is?
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Xen Tricks posted:How does a state with a ballooning hispanic population overwhelmingly elect a racist and whatever Abbot is? computer parts posted:Maybe running a bland white person in a minority-majority state is not the best strategy!
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I don't know, how does a campaign against women's health win women by 10 points?
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I don't think it's that, I think people overestimate how liberal Hispanics are. They are not the block that African Americans are when it comes to voting.
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