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https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1323090447011598347 Marvelous job
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saintonan posted:It'd be funny to see some Trumpkin perpwalked because absolutely nobody could shut up about it. False flag
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Nov 2, 2020 03:56
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1323106384943218691 Regardless of our deep cynicism, polls are close as gently caress and now this is going to be the top campaign related story in Texas. This is the kind of things that is supposedly revolting the suburban women and college+ from and causing them to desert him in hordes.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:38
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I don't get this. If you're committed to voting straight ticking, taking the 5 extra seconds to manually fill in every R/D box is not that hard It takes like a minute on a paper ballot, which is totally doable, but long enough to feel inconvenient. Especially if you're self-conscious about making sure the whole box is filled. I dislike straight-ticket voting in the same general way I dislike the whole two-party system, but if you live under a one party autocracy, you don't break the hegemony by being picky.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1323106384943218691 I mean, POLLS have Biden WINNING in TEXAS. I feel like this has got to be mind boggling for you guys down there.
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Biden +1 Cornyn +3 would be the most Texas option, so that's now what I hope for
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Grondoth posted:I mean, POLLS have Biden WINNING in TEXAS. I feel like this has got to be mind boggling for you guys down there. Generations of getting battered down under the weight of corruption coming from conservatives in this state makes it very easy to carve these polls out of reality with a finely honed blade of cynicism. Like how I said I'd believe Beto beat Cruz when he answered his first roll call in the senate, I'll believe Biden could beat Trump here only after the EC vote is certified.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:59
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It's things like this, combined with the positive polls results and early voting data in just the right areas, that give me some cause for optimism. https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1323101975576281088
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Nov 2, 2020 05:03
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Grondoth posted:I mean, POLLS have Biden WINNING in TEXAS. I feel like this has got to be mind boggling for you guys down there. We don’t believe em. Yeah I know what I said
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Nov 2, 2020 05:27
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I'm not disparaging it but who do calls/texts actually motivate? I get dozens of them I don't respond to and occasionally respond "yes biden rocks i vote democrat" or whatever which doesn't help stem the tide at all.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:42
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm not disparaging it but who do calls/texts actually motivate? I get dozens of them I don't respond to and occasionally respond "yes biden rocks i vote democrat" or whatever which doesn't help stem the tide at all. I'm trying to figure out how many different phonebanking lists I'm on, and which ones don't have updated records on who has already voted. I have noticed that my wife only got texts about voting, whereas I get texts about voting and texts asking me to volunteer. I'm already doing lit drops for Travis County Dems, so I'm kind of set for my volunteering before the election.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:45
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I think the point of those is to bother/annoy/remind people who lean democrat or re in any way associated to make sure they vote. Democrats are flighty voters but Republicans are guarantees.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:52
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How are you Texans feeling about Biden's chances here? Optimistic?
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Nov 2, 2020 06:28
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biden's not winning texas but he'll win the election then not do anything for 4 years so trump 2.0 swoops in and marks the rise of the fourth reich
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Nov 2, 2020 06:34
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm not disparaging it but who do calls/texts actually motivate? I get dozens of them I don't respond to and occasionally respond "yes biden rocks i vote democrat" or whatever which doesn't help stem the tide at all. They're not designed to non-specifically make people feel motivated, they are either to 1) ask for money 2) get you to volunteer or 3) encourage you to vote/confirm you have voted
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Nov 2, 2020 06:40
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:I'm trying to figure out how many different phonebanking lists I'm on, and which ones don't have updated records on who has already voted. I have noticed that my wife only got texts about voting, whereas I get texts about voting and texts asking me to volunteer. I'm already doing lit drops for Travis County Dems, so I'm kind of set for my volunteering before the election. im doing lit drops (well... staging location vol) in travis too 
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Nov 2, 2020 06:55
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Grouchio posted:How are you Texans feeling about Biden's chances here? Optimistic? He'll lose, but the gap between him and Trump will be small enough to give Republicans the heebie-jeebies. When it comes to Texas (as opposed to the nation as a whole) I'm more interested in the down-ballet races. I do think the Dems can add to their wins from 2018, though I'm not sure by how much. Hopefully enough to change the awful gerrymandering. e. Oh, and thanks for getting involved in Travis, TropicalCoke and Mistaken Frisbee. I had planned to volunteer this summer, but between unemployment woes and losing my dog I just didn't have it in me. Thanks for taking up the slack. 
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Nov 2, 2020 07:23
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get ur votes in https://strawpoll.com/6u7p3v3vs
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Nov 2, 2020 07:49
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LegendaryFrog posted:It's things like this, combined with the positive polls results and early voting data in just the right areas, that give me some cause for optimism. Beto probably would have run ahead of Biden and every time I see him I can only think about how he mounted a quixotic presidential campaign instead of running for Senate again.
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Nov 2, 2020 08:38
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Pride maybe? I don’t know but despite his failed bid I was a big fan of his mobilization efforts and am really happy he decided to keep on trying to get Texans to vote/care about politics because holy poo poo do we not give a gently caress.
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Nov 2, 2020 09:18
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When everybody keeps telling you "wow you only lost by a little bit instead of a lot, you're way better than everybody else we've tried! YOU SHOULD BE IN CHARGE!" what else can you do but try 
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jokes posted:Pride maybe? I don’t know but despite his failed bid I was a big fan of his mobilization efforts and am really happy he decided to keep on trying to get Texans to vote/care about politics because holy poo poo do we not give a gently caress. Didn't Obama encourage him? Hard to resist the previous two President from your party telling you to give it a shot. If Texas flips he might make a good head of the DNC.
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Nov 2, 2020 09:33
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Charlz Guybon posted:Didn't Obama encourage him? Hard to resist the previous two President from your party telling you to give it a shot. no it was obama's campaign people that whispered into his ear, the podjons
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Nov 2, 2020 09:35
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He’s better than a lot of higher ups in the DNC for actually getting voters. His same philosophy about Texas’s voter behavior (it’s not a Republican state it’s a non-voting state) is true for the US as a whole. I bet if voting was compulsory we’d see a whole lot less of the GOP.
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Nov 2, 2020 09:36
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Grouchio posted:How are you Texans feeling about Biden's chances here? Optimistic? I don’t think Biden will pull off the upset in Texas but it looks better than it did in 2018 which was already pretty close. I am pretty worried about MAGA’s causing trouble at polling locations though.
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Nov 2, 2020 12:51
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I don't get this. If you're committed to voting straight ticking, taking the 5 extra seconds to manually fill in every R/D box is not that hard I would think that the extra time needed for people to fill out the ballots and double-check that they filled them out correctly adds up. Given the pandemic, I would think anything that could make a line smaller and faster would be good.
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Nov 2, 2020 12:58
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Eric Cantonese posted:I would think that the extra time needed for people to fill out the ballots and double-check that they filled them out correctly adds up. Given the pandemic, I would think anything that could make a line smaller and faster would be good. Its this. Pair that with strategically placed far fewer polling locations and almost 1/10th the election budget in Harris this year and you'd have a far more suppressed vote. You'd get stories every day of hours long lines discouraging people from even bothering to show up. But Beto flipped it in 18 and here we are.
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Nov 2, 2020 13:48
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Agreed that Beto would be a good candidate to lead the DNC. Someone with a focus on voter mobilization and engagement at the state level can ensure the party doesn't get destroyed on local issues like the last decade.
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b0ng posted:I don’t think Biden will pull off the upset in Texas but it looks better than it did in 2018 which was already pretty close. I am pretty worried about MAGA’s causing trouble at polling locations though. even if they do this, im not sure how effective it will be. the dems have pushed early voting so hard that all theyll end up doing is intimidating eachother.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Didn't Obama encourage him? Hard to resist the previous two President from your party telling you to give it a shot. Beto might have a chance if he relocated to a blue state though. His senate run was one of the most painful cringe inducing things I've sat through. It hurts me to think that in an alternate universe, he could have played the game properly, and beat out Ted Cruz. Grouchio posted:How are you Texans feeling about Biden's chances here? Optimistic? The problem is that Trump supporters tend to keep quiet. Look at how goons swarm Trump supporters and bully them until they leave. What ends up happening is an echo chamber type scenario, where Trump supporters lurk in the dark until election day. I suspect the cities will go blue, as they usually do. But Biden will never win the rural votes. I have a feeling Trump will lose the popular vote, but win the election.
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sexpig by night posted:yea when I think trump supporter I think quiet and coy I stand by my point. Majority of Trump supporters aren't part of the Y'all Qaeda movement. We have had record turn outs, but it'll be interesting to see if it will be enough to flip the state.
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Beto messed up in being temped by the prospect of being president and failing badly, leaving it likely that Cornyn will be re-elected. It sucks, but that's the way it worked out and I'm over it by this point. Since then he's done an incredible job in creating a movement of folks getting people registered and getting people out to vote and that's commendable.Bioshuffle posted:Beto might have a chance if he relocated to a blue state though. His senate run was one of the most painful cringe inducing things I've sat through. It hurts me to think that in an alternate universe, he could have played the game properly, and beat out Ted Cruz. The Senate run where Cruz beat him 51-48 in a mid-term election was cringe-inducing? He played the game about as properly as he could have.
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Bizarro Watt posted:Beto messed up in being temped by the prospect of being president and failing badly, leaving it likely that Cornyn will be re-elected. It sucks, but that's the way it worked out and I'm over it by this point. Since then he's done an incredible job in creating a movement of folks getting people registered and getting people out to vote and that's commendable. It's not as if he lost in a blowout. If he had played the cards right, he could have won. I think a close loss is more painful than a race where you never had a shot to begin with. Edit: wrong campaign Bioshuffle fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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i say swears online posted:iconic Ugh how many IGs has this appeared on
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Cen-Tex whaddup https://twitter.com/AlexMohajer/status/1322765242468716544?s=20
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Bioshuffle posted:It was cringe inducing because if he hadn't had that gaff about banning rifles (in Texas of all places), evidence indicates that he could have won the dammed thing.
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Hawkline posted:Beto said the rifle thing in 2019. He lost to Cruz in 2018. Whoops! You're totally right. I got my campaigns mixed up. I stand corrected. The rifle comment was what derailed his presidential campaign, not senate. Did he have any notable gaffes during the senate race then?
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