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Drone Jett posted:Beto for Speaker of the House. What *does* happen to his House seat now
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Waffle House posted:I have respect for John Cornyn. Whether it was he or a page manager I interacted with on Facebook, he directly engaged me when I had questions about legislation, providing full documentation from the legislature's .gov site, along with the bill text. He's garbage. During the Net Neutrality stuff, he (most likely his staff) replied via physical mail to my near endless faxes. I appreciated the act but his message was typical surface freedom for consumers that in reality upheld a corporation's rights to be lovely. He's been silent to me ever since, mostly voting in lockstep with the Republican party while showing zero spine w/r/t Trump. He also casually pitches racist dogwhistles on Twitter, and he's been chummy as hell with horrible judicial nominations. He has some okay political instincts and he does his homework more often than not, but it masks an institutional cruelty.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:42
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Waffle House posted:I said this earlier in the thread, but I am loving Abbott, Dan Patrick, Cruz etc. getting this extremely rude wake-up call. They are not good at handling it, no matter how much money they throw at social media handlers. Abbott didn’t even have to get out of bed
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Nov 7, 2018 04:44
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Spiritus Nox posted:What *does* happen to his House seat now You don’t have to be a member of the house to be speaker. But some Hispanic woman whose name I forgot is replacing him.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:44
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I. M. Gei posted:There’s still a lot of votes not counted yet right? None that will be primarily Beto.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:46
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Quandary posted:I dunno, Donnelly, Mcaskill, and Heitkamp did awesome by playing to the middle. *slowly counts up the over a thousand seats the dems have lost since I've graduated highschool*
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Nov 7, 2018 04:47
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Quandary posted:I dunno, Donnelly, Mcaskill, and Heitkamp did awesome by playing to the middle. 
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Nov 7, 2018 04:51
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CNN showing Harris and Dallas counties still at 16% and 28% respectively. Are they just not updating those percents anymore?
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Nov 7, 2018 04:52
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I. M. Gei posted:CNN showing Harris and Dallas counties still at 16% and 28% respectively. Are they just not updating those percents anymore? Poll workers, carrying boxes of uncounted ballots: "Oh, did you hear? CNN called it. We don't need these anymore."
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Nov 7, 2018 04:53
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Culberson projected out. https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1060017271748333569
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Nov 7, 2018 04:55
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At least it looks like the Austin NIMBY proposition is going to fail, and the audit Trojan Horse is going down in flames.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:55
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I remember when the DNC did their ballot initiatives and it was like UHC? 97% Yes Free College Tuition? 95% Yes Full Communism Now? 87% Yes College Debt Forgiveness? 93% Yes But all their candidates are like "I support a sustainable initiative to establish a commission to investigate the plausibility of means tested time limited tax credits for small business owners who employ veteran women of color in order to establish a more affordable health insurance" when asked about it.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:55
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Drone Jett posted:You don’t have to be a member of the house to be speaker. Veronica Escobar. She was one of the county commissioners or county judges in El Paso, I forget. Super shady local dealings lol. But she'll be a reliable liberal vote I expect.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:01
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Rasczak posted:Wife and I were +2 for Beto in early voting in Fort Worth Yeah, I voted early, which meant I didnt get to see Browser, but it was worth it.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:02
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ReidRansom posted:Culberson projected out. Beto may have lost but at least I get a consolation prize for someone who lives in that district.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:09
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So can we demand a senate re-vote due to hosed up voting machines?
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Nov 7, 2018 05:09
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Shifty Pony posted:At least it looks like the Austin NIMBY proposition is going to fail, and the audit Trojan Horse is going down in flames. I had to explain to my wife how those were bad things she should vote against on the way to the polls last week while still not trying to tell her how to vote. I still feel bad for trying to influence her vote, but those two were poo poo and worded as inoffensive as possible.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:11
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I'm looking at TPM for the election map. They're calling it for Cruz with like 30-40% left to report. Is this because all the major urban areas have reported? How are the pundits so certain that the other 1/3rd or so of the votes won't turn it around for Beto?
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Nov 7, 2018 05:12
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I. M. Gei posted:CNN showing Harris and Dallas counties still at 16% and 28% respectively. Are they just not updating those percents anymore? Those are live votes for the precincts. All the early votes are in, and those are like 60% of the votes.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:12
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Edgar Quintero posted:I'm looking at TPM for the election map. They're calling it for Cruz with like 30-40% left to report. Is this because all the major urban areas have reported? How are the pundits so certain that the other 1/3rd or so of the votes won't turn it around for Beto? It may not be over, there may be a fix in, THIS may be the fix that is in, honestly who knows. Are people still in line at the polls?
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Nov 7, 2018 05:13
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I was not ready for this race to be as close as it was. When I first checked and it was 52% beto and 18% lupe, I thought "wow, only 0.1% votes counted but sure, that seems right." I had more hope than I realized.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:14
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halokiller posted:Beto may have lost but at least I get a consolation prize for someone who lives in that district. yeah and pete sessions got out too lol
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Nov 7, 2018 05:16
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Waffle House posted:It may not be over, there may be a fix in, THIS may be the fix that is in, honestly who knows. My favorite part is where it has Travis County as 100% reporting, but if you look at the Travis County site, they have 100% reporting...with only 4k voting today. How...what? And that's the numbers that they're using on all the MSM sites right now, with 100% reporting.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:16
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Friend posted:I was not ready for this race to be as close as it was. When I first checked and it was 52% beto and 18% lupe, I thought "wow, only 0.1% votes counted but sure, that seems right." I had more hope for the midterms overall, and as a result a lot of hope for Beto losing statewide in Florida kicked it all out of me though so in the end Beto did better than I thought he would given the other results nationwide
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Nov 7, 2018 05:18
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Marxalot posted:I remember when the DNC did their ballot initiatives and it was like Marxalot posted:https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1060007470406529024 Basically this
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Nov 7, 2018 05:20
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Wrath of Zidane posted:My favorite part is where it has Travis County as 100% reporting, but if you look at the Travis County site, they have 100% reporting...with only 4k voting today. Did we ever hear anything else about those DOJ investigators? I'm hearing somewhere else that there's still only 44% reporting. We only have like 370,000 of Travis County's 800,000 votes or something. Waffle House fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 05:22
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Texas holding at Cruz +3 with about 1.3 million votes left to count. NYT projecting a final margin of Cruz +6 and there's still a bunch left in Harris and Dallas county out.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:25
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I am shocked at all the people itt poo poo-talking Beto The man just came within 5-6 points in a statewide election in an off year, this is completely insane and unprecedented He is not going to go away because he’s the best thing to happen to the Texas Democratic Party since the end of Reconstruction.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:28
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I still don't understand why the race is already called. Still very pro-beto, even though I think he's too centrist and my family thinks he's too far left, but why is it already over?
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Nov 7, 2018 05:30
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Badger of Basra posted:I am shocked at all the people itt poo poo-talking Beto You've got a lot of faith in the TDP. They're probably coming to the same conclusion as that politico article that got tossed around earlier.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:30
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Badger of Basra posted:I am shocked at all the people itt poo poo-talking Beto Yep. Beto ran a bold, inclusive campaign with a strong grassroots movement in a state with a lot of awful people. Lots of good ones, too. He lifted up a lot of boats. Will keep an eye on him no matter what - especially if the unthinkable happens and we get Truman/Dewey later. Cruz is dogshit. He's also an incumbent, he didn't have a Moore-esque pedo scandal, and his old rear end base is getting older.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:32
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Friend posted:I still don't understand why the race is already called. bunch of votes also left to count in all the red suburbs around houston
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Nov 7, 2018 05:32
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Beto is proof that an aggressive outreach campaign can have massive impact on a statewide race in Texas. If the Democratic Party actually invested in ongoing outreach, this shows that Texas could be fully competitive in all state wide races in 2020.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:33
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Badger of Basra posted:I am shocked at all the people itt poo poo-talking Beto He came within 5 points against the incumbent on an off-year that generally supports the opposing party...when Texas normally leans nearly 20 points to the Republican. And his coat-tails are apparently made of razorblades if some of the reports I'm hearing are true. The NIMBY poo poo getting rejected in Austin, knocking out the lesser Sessions... and simply demonstrating that running hard left and getting out the vote does wonders.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:33
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i watched a bar full of beto supporters collectively groan when CNN called it for cruz i'm more excited personally for the socialist judge winning in houston https://twitter.com/HoustonDSA/status/1060024278173802496 houston DSA is cleaning it up: https://twitter.com/HoustonDSA/status/1060020835958865925 BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 05:34
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Friend posted:I still don't understand why the race is already called. Not enough outstanding votes to cover the gap at current projected margins by county? I agree there are still Beto vote areas outstanding, but there are people out there paid to do all the math we're way too lazy to think about. It's not perfect, but it's usually pretty good and improves as the night goes on.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:34
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ReidRansom posted:Not enough outstanding votes to cover the gap at current projected margins by county? I agree there are still Beto vote areas outstanding, but there are people out there paid to do all the math we're way too lazy to think about. It's not perfect, but it's usually pretty good and improves as the night goes on. I'm gonna laugh if all the newscorps get their numbers from like one guy and he hosed up or something.
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Nov 7, 2018 05:36
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Alkydere posted:He came within 5 points against the incumbent on an off-year that generally supports the opposing party...when Texas normally leans nearly 20 points to the Republican. And his coat-tails are apparently made of razorblades if some of the reports I'm hearing are true. The NIMBY poo poo getting rejected in Austin, knocking out the lesser Sessions... and simply demonstrating that running hard left and getting out the vote does wonders. Yeah he probably elected two US reps, a few state senators, and a bunch of state house candidates. The statewide races besides gov are all way closer than normal. The tweet I posted a few days ago is dead on - this is a result that amazes Texas Democrats and disappointment everyone else, because they were expecting Beto in a walk or something.
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