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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

aaand it's over, called by Fox

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Dramatika
Aug 1, 2002

THE BANK IS OPEN
Well, at least my fiance and I are on the same page about interracial kids now. Not raising a kid in Trump's America.

e; since that comes off hosed up, we'd have also been on the same page going the other way.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Dramatika posted:

Well, at least my fiance and I are on the same page about interracial kids now. Not raising a kid in Trump's America.

e; since that comes off hosed up, we'd have also been on the same page going the other way.

still comes off hosed up lol

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Yeah man woof.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I will simply not be raising a child of any racial background, in Trump's America or indeed anyone's America; or anyone's other countries either.

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

Dramatika posted:

Well, at least my fiance and I are on the same page about interracial kids now. Not raising a kid in Trump's America.

e; since that comes off hosed up, we'd have also been on the same page going the other way.

My interracial kid is working on week seven of life right now and big oof buddy.

illcendiary
Dec 4, 2005

Damn, this is good coffee.

Dameius posted:

My interracial kid is working on week seven of life right now and big oof buddy.

Week four in utero here!

LLSix
Jan 20, 2010

The real power behind countless overlords

Dramatika posted:

Well, at least my fiance and I are on the same page about interracial kids now. Not raising a kid in Trump's America.

e; since that comes off hosed up, we'd have also been on the same page going the other way.

I’m sorry our country sucks so much you feel that way.

Friend
Aug 3, 2008

Hey everyone! Get a big cup of water and chug it right now!

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

illcendiary posted:

Week four in utero here!

Its going to suck big time for you. I got to be with my wife during her appointments during most of the first trimester but from then on it was all solo attendance with me sitting in the car in the parking garage on Duo. I really hated not being there with her.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Friend posted:

Hey everyone! Get a big cup of water and chug it right now!

smart advice

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
who the gently caress let art acevedo tweet. get that guy out of there what the fck

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Friend posted:

Hey everyone! Get a big cup of water/vodka and chug it right now!

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007

And mio!

Friend
Aug 3, 2008


With and THEN without vodka

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I am drinking a big glass of weed

FBS
Apr 27, 2015

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

I got probed and then un-probed and in the meantime nothing in Texas looks any better

:rip:

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
angie chen button's race looks too close to call.

seems like either the state house stays the same or the dems pick up 1.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Vicente Gonzales BARELY scraped by the Republican challenger, holy loving poo poo. :stare: Hidalgo County is in real big loving trouble about going red next time.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


I have switched to a lovely verte chaud before bed. And some water.

I suspected there was some shy tory effect in the polls. I'm disappointed that I was maybe right.

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Nov 11, 2003

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Lipstick Apathy
I feel bad for a buddy of mine. He has run for Denton city council twice now and he’s gotten absolutely creamed both times by like 40 points.
:(

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012

Jiro posted:

Vicente Gonzales BARELY scraped by the Republican challenger, holy loving poo poo. :stare: Hidalgo County is in real big loving trouble about going red next time.

Oh yeah. If Republicans had put up some candidates in the state house races down there somehow, it could have had huge consequences.

Sardonik
Jul 1, 2005

if you like my dumb posts, you'll love my dumb youtube channel

FBS posted:

I got probed and then un-probed and in the meantime nothing in Texas looks any better

:rip:

Not true, Austin will get its new trains.

[intensely sad] Choo Choo :(

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
small victories

https://twitter.com/DentonRC/status/1323860440905035776

illcendiary
Dec 4, 2005

Damn, this is good coffee.

Jiro posted:

Vicente Gonzales BARELY scraped by the Republican challenger, holy loving poo poo. :stare: Hidalgo County is in real big loving trouble about going red next time.

Depends on who the nominee is in 2024. Feel like this is just Trump’s DGAF idiocy resonating with Valley people more than anything

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
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zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1323849178951372800

I mean that's a pretty significant realignment. If RGV voters hadn't broken in favor of the monomanaical racist xenophobe...

I mean, we've so thoroughly stripped policy and actual material interests from the field of presidential politics that we're literally just arguing about the monomania. We're out here asking people to promise $27 to the guy who oversaw the the beginning of the camps, and who also said that your cousin who sold lovely brick weed should get the death penalty. I feel like the world's most annoying broken record here but how many times are we going to watch dems do this while pulling the shocked pikachu face?

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Marxalot posted:

I mean, we've so thoroughly stripped policy and actual material interests from the field of presidential politics that we're literally just arguing about the monomania. We're out here asking people to promise $27 to the guy who oversaw the the beginning of the camps, and who also said that your cousin who sold lovely brick weed should get the death penalty. I feel like the world's most annoying broken record here but how many times are we going to watch dems do this while pulling the shocked pikachu face?

:hmmyes:

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~


One of my favorite talking points for years has been that almost every Mexican border county in America is overwhelmingly democratic. That red arrow is horrifying.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/cwdarney/status/1323868951248539648?s=21

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1323871035251449859?s=20

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Wrong thread heh

joe football
Dec 22, 2012

I'm not remotely texan and I know there's plenty of things you can imagine contributing to a better performance for trump but doesn't stuff like this seem... kind of implausible? Like is there any precedent for this kind of shift anywhere else in the country in recent elections?

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

I don’t know the vote count but if nobody votes or there are new electors in favor of Trump replacing Dems that didn’t vote, you’ll see a shift like that.

There’s a quote by some GOP piece of poo poo that says a non-vote is a +1 and a vote for Trump is a +2 for Republicans. A previous voter not voting is worth so much to Republicans, and Trump has apparently inspired a lot of new voters too.

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

joe football posted:

I'm not remotely texan and I know there's plenty of things you can imagine contributing to a better performance for trump but doesn't stuff like this seem... kind of implausible? Like is there any precedent for this kind of shift anywhere else in the country in recent elections?

We saw swings like that in R counties this very night, just mostly not to the tune of, you know, flipping them. Just like these weren't flipped. Even by those standards 28 points is a LOT though

What's important to find out is if these margin changes were due to actual votes changing or D voters not showing up. Turnout was up across the state but that doesn't mean that turnout in THESE COUNTIES was up.

There's also the factor of covid.

illcendiary
Dec 4, 2005

Damn, this is good coffee.

joe football posted:

I'm not remotely texan and I know there's plenty of things you can imagine contributing to a better performance for trump but doesn't stuff like this seem... kind of implausible? Like is there any precedent for this kind of shift anywhere else in the country in recent elections?

Speaking as someone born and raised in the RGV, Trump’s an rear end in a top hat, Valley people are assholes. Hillary skated by on Bill’s coattails + Valley people didn’t know it would be fun to root for a piece of poo poo like Trump.

If you want big RGV margins moving forward I think your best bet is a Hispanic Texan D nominee, one who speaks fluent Spanish (and not Beto/Castro fluent, like actually fluent), and who is a bit of a strong personality. I don’t think progressive politics are gonna move the needle much anymore, the cat is out of the bag.

FBS
Apr 27, 2015

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.


Elon Musk did this

Water Resistant
Jul 10, 2003
AP just called TX21 for Chip Roy. My racist xenophobic rear end in a top hat rep will return for another 2 years.

FWIW he won against Davis by far more than he did against the very centralist guy who ran in 2018 so this is why I'm hesitant to think more socialism is the answer. Or maybe it's just misogyny. I have no idea.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Maybe Wendy Davis just sucks and should move to Florida or something

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No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

Numlock posted:

Not for Republicans in Texas. Thats the high water mark so far going back to 2008.

Thats why I dont buy another million Trump voters comming out of nowhere.

I bet Trump gets 4.7 million +/- 100k in Texas in the final tally. That would be him beating his 2016 numbers.

No Safe Word posted:

Between anywhere from like ~5-10% population growth in that time and historically high turnout, 5+M R voters is not crazy at all. The 5.5M rings true as basically a cap but I don't really know. Assuming anything under 5M is a mistake though.

Well turns out even the 5.5M was still not the real ceiling. Since he's at over 5.7M with only 94% reporting.

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