Kunabomber posted:

Please fill it in for Lupe. It determines the entire election process for the next 4 years. Copy/paste from the local Democratic Party e-mail:


So if you want a non-Republican person controlling the place you vote, put in a ballot for Lupe. It matters!

Real Name Grover posted:

"did?"

This doesn't even make sense, Ted

turnip kid posted:

I'm betting on 12-15% advantage for Cruz when the smoke clears. I've been down this road before.

turnip kid posted:

I'm betting on 12-15% advantage for Cruz when the smoke clears. I've been down this road before.

Sardonik posted:

I think the over under on Beto losing by only 4% is pretty good. Here's to hoping the loss won't shatter the naive.

Dameius posted:

In a result lauded by Texas Dems, but mourned by the nation...

Marxalot posted:

Hope is the mind killer.

zoux posted:

Well we'll know in a couple of days.

Dunno if it'll matter for poo poo but I voted a straight D slate but left Governor empty. Maybe if enough people do that the Texas Democratic party will learn tha- ahahahhahahah

PostNouveau posted:

He's trying to get James O'Keefe's latest rapidly-dissipating fart into the news.

KIM JONG TRILL posted:

While it would suck to lose a senate seat in loving NJ of all places, jettisoning menendez will ultimately be a good thing.

saintonan posted:

People should know by now not to take anything Project "Veritas" says at face value, but just in case:

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1058417640903979008

zoux posted:

Yeah I have a feeling all the guys from other states poking their heads in here like Leslie Nielsen in Airplane to say Ganbare Beto! are gonna be the hardest hit.

Shear Modulus posted:

cant believe the guy who fabricated videos of planned parenthood doctors talking about selling fetus parts fabricated another video

paternity suitor posted:

I feel like regardless of whether he loses, Beto will have a down ballot effect, and also there will be some stickiness to first time voters turning out for future elections.

zoux posted:

What a piece of poo poo

Spacebump posted:

meanwhile, Ted Cruz will reference the doctored videos the rest of his campaign. Knowing they are fake.

zoux posted:

IMO, why vote, Cruz and Beto are exactly the same, if you think about it.

zoux posted:

Dunno if it'll matter for poo poo but I voted a straight D slate but left Governor empty.

zoux posted:

Lupe and Beto are exactly the same if you think about it

saintonan posted:

People should know by now not to take anything Project "Veritas" says at face value, but just in case:

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1058417640903979008

zoux posted:

I thought that was the Phoenix foundation

E: it was the center for medical progress

JosefStalinator posted:

mastajake posted:

Politics is broken.

zoux posted:

Yeah right now the press is breathless retweetingly and boosting and talking about that racist Willie Horton ad Trump just put out, but otherwise it's nowhere. They count on liberal outrage making things go viral. I don't know what the solution is though.

Chorrax posted:

What's the best site for info on TX candidates to put up on my companies slack?

saintonan posted:

People should know by now not to take anything Project "Veritas" says at face value, but just in case:

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1058417640903979008

Skex posted:

I hate this nonsense. The actual quote is "fear is the mind killer" and the opposite of fear is not courage it is hope. Courage isn't the absence of fear it is when hope overcomes fear. There is always hope and when you give up hope that's when the forces of fear have won.

Hope the best, plan for the worst and expect nothing.

I hope Beto wins, if he doesn't I'll continue to do what I can to fight the fash and what happens will not destroy my ability to hope until I cease drawing breath.

Kunabomber posted:

Please fill it in for Lupe. It determines the entire election process for the next 4 years. Copy/paste from the local Democratic Party e-mail:


So if you want a non-Republican person controlling the place you vote, put in a ballot for Lupe. It matters!

Marxalot posted:

Texas Dems

quote:

Over the summer, Swing TX-7 Left pivoted from the confines of their affluent bubbles and started trying to identify and register new voters in the northwest part of the district — places outside Houston’s inner Loop 610, like Cypress and north Katy — that were more diverse and Democratic-leaning.

They identified “Hot Precincts” to canvass in the area by scanning Google Maps for streets with no trees or lots of cars in the driveway. That’s usually a sign that it’s a new neighborhood with lots of potential voters who’ve never been talked to before.

The group also made canvassing in apartment complexes a top priority. Twenty percent of the Harris County population live in apartments and they tend to be overwhelmingly Democratic — but many don’t vote. Campaigns generally avoid investing field resources into apartments because residents often move and it’s hard to keep tabs on who you’re trying to reach.

Swing TX-7 Left decided to change that and in August launched an canvassing initiative in which they left about 35,000 door hangers with voter registration forms at apartments around the district. There was a more than 5 percent registration uptick in those areas, volunteers said.

Swing TX-7 Left’s innovation has not been borne out of some innate political genius. Rather, it’s due to sheer determination and a dose of idealistic ignorance. Many of the volunteers had no idea who John Culberson was in October of 2016 and didn’t know the first thing about block walking or voter registration. In short, they didn’t know what they didn’t know — and that has been both their greatest strength and weakness. It’s a whole lot easier to break all the rules if you don’t know what the rules are in the first place. Despite their success, the learning curve has been steep, and they’ll be the first to admit it.

As the campaign moved into the final stretch, Swing TX-7 Left got more sophisticated. Jane Lesnick, who had a bit of experience as an Obama field organizer in 2008, came up with a plan to create a series of volunteer teams to serve as organizing hubs around the district. The plan was based on Obama’s “snowflake” organizing model and echoed the field program that Moser’s campaign had set up. Lesnick got it off the ground and after a few weeks, it looked to be working.

Then they started getting pressured by both the Swing Left national organization and the Fletcher campaign to shut the snowflake down and fall in line with Fletcher’s GOTV strategy.

Jay Taylor, the retired attorney now with Swing TX-7 Left, had seen that coming. A local DCCC organizer had warned that when it came time to get out the vote, “you tuck in your wings and fold in as close to the campaign as possible.” But that doesn’t mean it was easy.

“It goes against grain of how we’re set up. We’re more partisan guerilla fighters,” Taylor explained, comparing Swing Left volunteers to the French resistance fighters who fought alongside Allied troops in World War II — they have the same goal and fight together, but have different tactics that don’t always mesh.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/by_jmiller/status/1058465014812696577

Rock My Socks! posted:

My wife and I voted at I10 and Dairy Ashford today

There were a bunch of old ladies with homemade Ted Cruz/Qanon collab shirts, so not super optimistic about TX7 turning blue

Hopefully I’m wrong?

Rock My Socks! posted:

My wife and I voted at I10 and Dairy Ashford today

There were a bunch of old ladies with homemade Ted Cruz/Qanon collab shirts, so not super optimistic about TX7 turning blue

Hopefully I’m wrong?