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Badger of Basra posted:Dunno if his dad passed that bill but his dad was definitely a state legislator: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/jeff-henry-verruckt-schlitterbahns-tragic-slide/ I mighta been wrong about the dad helping to deregulate, but the family DID sue in Texas rather than Kansas to avoid a Kansas law that the dad did pass that caps payouts at $300,000. They got $20 million.
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FBS posted:lmfao I'm just poking fun obviously.
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FBS posted:lmfao ngl "The governor was the sheriff" is about the most texas thing one can possibly say. e: so clearly I was wrong earlier "Please stop shifting the overton window towards the extreme right in order to satisfy your  fetish" is a huge ask.https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1057447079717601280 e2: VVVV 
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Marxalot posted:saw this and thought of the texas dems~ Good news mate, I don't think anyone ITT has voted for or plans to vote for Joe Donnelly. Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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It was semi relevant to people asking "so why don't people vote??" earlier. Also the guy who didn't believe there were dems not campaigning on bringing UHC.
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Nonsense posted:Cruz up 10. There was no way for O'Rourke to win, it's Texas. Hopefully he won't lose as badly as Wendy Davis did, but my guess is still 5-8 points.
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Shear Modulus posted:all i know is i will not be voting for beto this election and nothing anyone itt says will change that Ted Cruz is a good family man. You gotta stand up for decent people sometimes. Thanks for your service.
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Shear Modulus posted:all i know is i will not be voting for beto this election and nothing anyone itt says will change that Gotta vote with your conscience, you do you my man
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Democratic Pirate posted:Gotta vote with your conscience, you do you my man Killing the joke here, but I'm pretty sure I recall them saying they moved out of Texas.
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https://twitter.com/macengelprof/status/1057615772963487745?s=21 This school, man
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/macengelprof/status/1057615772963487745?s=21 
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Got phone polled last night. First question was a self-reporting likely voter screen (to which my answer was "I already voted, so ... 'very likely' I guess"). Then they asked about Beto/Cruz, TX-07 TX Gov,, Harris County Judge, and then a generic party identification question, as well as an age range identification. So +1 for the dems in the polls for Likely Voters in the 35-44 age range.
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/macengelprof/status/1057615772963487745?s=21 That appears to be a misreading, actually https://twitter.com/arthomason/status/1057633662357921792 https://twitter.com/arthomason/status/1057634128076521475 Not that 16 percent is a great number, regardless
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Typo posted:is that a private school? Yeah. The above poster probably nailed it though. That headline is clickbait-y as poo poo.
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Marxalot posted:Yeah. The above poster probably nailed it though. That headline is clickbait-y as poo poo. Part of this is residual dumb sports beef, but in my experience Mac Engel is Not A Good Newsperson. Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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Yeah 56% would mean literally every woman at Baylor has been harassed by faculty or that male Baylor students are being sexually harassed at rates heretofore unseen in the patriarchy.
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SirKibbles posted:I just realized there is a less than zero chance of Vadez being Gov and I am afraid Abbott will serve more terms than Perry did. That said, Beto could sneak up on Zodiac and finally put im down
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1057698731666165761 thread title proposal Texas Politics: The cannibals have run out of voters to eat
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Texas Politics: The cannibals have run out of voters to eat Seconding this.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/31/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-poll-uttyler-texas Ted Cruz’s lead over Beto O’Rourke narrows to 3.6, UT-Tyler poll says quote:Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz leads challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, by 3.6 percentage points among likely voters in a new University of Texas at Tyler poll released Wednesday. Good news for Beto but holy gently caress Abbott leads Lupe Valdez by +20 
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Xarthor posted:https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/31/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-poll-uttyler-texas  Did she even campaign? Because outside of this thread I'm not entirely sure I've come across her name.
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I don’t think those turnout numbers are reflected in the sampling for the polling. I have a suspicion that the pollsters are over sampling rural counties so there is a small glimmer of hope that this is a Beto blowout.
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Comparing the SOS data turnout is almost on par with the 2016 election. About 4 percentage points lower ( 30.15% to 33.95%) through 9 days of early voting, but vote totals are up. 3.695M votes cast vs 3.313M in the 2016 election. This election has almost 2.5M more registered voters though. I know they didn't all move here in the last 2 years, so I think the voter registration efforts can be called a success. Still I think Texas has about 17M eligible voters, but only 12.5M registered.
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I think I've seen one sign, in the heart of Downtown Dallas. Never got a text, never got a phonecall, never got an email, never heard a peep about a single campaign event. Beto's crew pesters me constantly (bless them), I've seen signs for a bunch of US and state reps and senators, I've shook hands with my prospective district rep, and I even got a text from the campaign of the dude running for Tarrant County DA. Not a peep from Lupe. Just shameful. Abbot is probably the most formidable GOP person on the ballot this year to be fair, but a competent campaigner wouldn't be losing by 20, probably wouldn't even be down 10.
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I was at a Democratic office last weekend and they didn't have any Lupe Valdez swag except for the thinnest T-shirt I have ever seen in my life. Valdez campaign couldn't even get T-shirts right.Lote posted:I don’t think those turnout numbers are reflected in the sampling for the polling. I have a suspicion that the pollsters are over sampling rural counties so there is a small glimmer of hope that this is a Beto blowout. In theory, they are because pollsters count people who have already voted and weigh them 100% likely to vote.
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Shear Modulus posted:i can't believe that not campaigning at all still hasn't proven to be a winning strategy for democrats And that's just it - near as I can tell most of them are!! Just not Lupe!
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Marxalot posted:
She's a openly lesbian latina, which puts her behind the 8-ball in Texas to start with (sadly.) In addition to that she made some pretty rookie unforced errors in the early stages of her campaign that made her look like she might not have the best grasp on issues. It's a shame because I've met her a few times and she's a nice person and has done a competent enough job in her current role as Dallas Sheriff, but yeah...not a great campaigner.
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