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also, while i'm being a bitch about judge races, the republicans understand very well that political power in this state starts at the local level. here in denton county, the republicans were out at the polling places with signs for judge and justice of the peace races -- not cruz. the democrats were all in for beto and packed into craft breweries for watch parties tonight with their aspirations tied up in his messianic campaign. but the GOP is sharper and knows how power is exercised. they'll vote for cruz but they're turning out to vote for the county judge. and they do that because they want to call the shots in their communities. it's as straightforward as that edit: these results from collin county are wild too. we are rapidly nearing swing state turf BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Panty Saluter posted:I know Cruz is a big time evangelical panderer, but is there any other reason people vote for him? I do not see the appeal at all He broke David Dewhurst, the Most Boring Man In Texas, by running to his far right in 2018, and was an incumbent in the primary this time round (and cannot feasibly be run to the right of).
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hey you guys forgot about gina but it looks like she won by 300 votes https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/texas-house-district-23
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R-Type posted:Wow, glad to know unpolitical fair and unbiased judges are being elected into criminal courts. What a piece of janky poo poo. I too, would have preferred a centrist lib who thinks cash bail is a good idea. A guy we can count on, who thinks decriminalization of marijuana is a step too far and endangers the power of the courts to put away "bad guys". Basically I'm a republican but I won't call you the n word in public.
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R-Type posted:Wow, glad to know unpolitical fair and unbiased judges are being elected into criminal courts. What a piece of janky poo poo. seems like you have a lot to learn about judges, friend
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Panty Saluter posted:so sheer inertia and opportunism. sounds about right How he got elected isn't nearly as important as the fact that a little over half of the people who voted for him as an expression of their identity rather than as support for any policy position he may have espoused.
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this guy gets it: https://twitter.com/JimmyFlannigan/status/1059991444314882049 justice of the peace race -- which he won. somewhat of a texas liberal politics deep cut, but KT was the publisher of the "burnt orange report" which was a liberal blog about texas politics about 10 years ago that had a lot of eyeballs. kind of a TX version of daily kos. kinda bizarre to think these liberal bloggers during the bush years would become future elected officials but that's how the cookie crumbles also: https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1060075451417268224
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judges should be as left-wing as possible because the cops are already hard right all cops are bastards but maybe all judges don't have to be
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Official result from the SoS is gina down by 700, Hurd wins
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Zyla posted:seems like you have a lot to learn about judges, friend https://twitter.com/HoustonDSA/status/1060066247096844288 https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1060057831158833152 https://twitter.com/HoustonDSA/status/1060056018053459969
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Sadly, I don't think we can really rely on such returns again. Cruz is gone and Trump is back for 2020, plus Beto can hardly run again I mean he could, but.....
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What sucks is Cruz's hidden (R) base will slink back into the shadows. And Texans will ask AGAIN in a few years, "How did this guy get elected, nobody I know likes him".
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Well I'm glad we all learned the lesson that what we need to do is track towards the right in order to appeal to the only semi-racist republican winemom demographic. Truly the responsible pragmatic right wing adults in the room have won the day; Those who know things like UHC, drug decriminalization, and not spending $700bn a year to bomb poor brown people and/or overthrow their governments are just pie in the sky utopian ideals. Hopefully with this historic win for the neoliberal order we can finally reach across the aisle and work with our quasi-fascist republican brothers who go on national TV and scream that Mexicans are bringing back smallpox.
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I still can't believe that prop J didn't pass in Austin and that Morrison got so completely stomped by Adler for mayor. Maybe the NIMBY neighborhood association assholes will take the hint.
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Marxalot posted:I too, would have preferred a centrist lib who thinks cash bail is a good idea. A guy we can count on, who thinks decriminalization of marijuana is a step too far and endangers the power of the courts to put away "bad guys". That guy is a Republican not a neolib shill fyi Marxalot posted:Well I'm glad we all learned the lesson that what we need to do is track towards the right in order to appeal to the only semi-racist republican winemom demographic. Truly the responsible pragmatic right wing adults in the room have won the day; Those who know things like UHC, drug decriminalization, and not spending $700bn a year to bomb poor brown people and/or overthrow their governments are just pie in the sky utopian ideals. Hopefully with this historic win for the neoliberal order we can finally reach across the aisle and work with our quasi-fascist republican brothers who go on national TV and scream that Mexicans are bringing back smallpox. what is this even about!!! Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:this guy gets it: Also James Talarico won HD 52. So good work Williamson county.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Beto also up in Hays sessions and culberson losing is so good
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:this guy gets it: lol thats wild, used to read bor all the time
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:this guy gets it: Oh poo poo, I used to read Burnt Orange Report all the time. He went to UT at the same time as me. Crazy to see that guy is winning elections now. Makes me feel old.
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Yeah seeing Musselman and Tallarico win is wild to me. I was in UDems with them and it feels like not all that long ago. Guess I’m old now.
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Ideally, Beto doesn't pull an Obama and dismantle his GOTV operation. This night is proof that Texas is pushing left and part of that is that his campaign worked their asses off getting people to the polls. I'm not certain what should be next for Beto the candidate but his campaign needs to become the new backbone for Texas Dems.
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A friend asked me if I regretted canvasing for Kopser, given that he didn't win. I gave him an unequivocal no, I don't regret it. The fact that the race was as close as it was tells me I was right to volunteer for that one. I can also move forward with a clean conscience, that I did everything I could with my free time to advance better beliefs. Those of us with the luxury of free time really should make the most of it in election years.
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Panty Saluter posted:I'm trying to understand this but my brain is just refusing to accept it. You still have to be popular within the party to rise and....why Rafael, of all people? I might have voted for a more boring, centrist Democrat just because I hate Ted’s face so much, but Beto made people excited in a way that made me uncomfortable. I mainly voted for Ted out of spite.
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I have no confidence in the TDP doing anything good in 2020, but picking up a bunch of seats in the state house and a couple state senate seats this cycle is a good sign. Democrats need more control in 2020 for redistricting, local control leads to national control. How can I get involved with the statewide party early?
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General Dog posted:I might have voted for a more boring, centrist Democrat just because I hate Ted’s face so much, but Beto made people excited in a way that made me uncomfortable. I mainly voted for Ted out of spite. source your quotes, please
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General Dog posted:I might have voted for a more boring, centrist Democrat just because I hate Ted’s face so much, but Beto made people excited in a way that made me uncomfortable. I mainly voted for Ted out of spite. This is a respectable reason to vote in times when we're building concentration camps out in the desert and legally non-personing transpeople. I mean, sure there's Nazis shooting up synagogues because Trump told them the immigrants were going to kill all white people, but Democratic enthusiasm CAN be slightly grating, you know?
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https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/1060175446334070784?s=21 2.5% is nuts y’all
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Matt Rinaldi, the guy who said he called ICE on the gallery protestors in the waning days of the last session, is gone.Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/1060175446334070784?s=21  That's bonkers https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/1060043634362474500 zoux fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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General Dog posted:I might have voted for a more boring, centrist Democrat just because I hate Ted’s face so much, but Beto made people excited in a way that made me uncomfortable. I mainly voted for Ted out of spite. So you voted against Beto because he was too popular for your liking? Okay.
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1stGear posted:Ideally, Beto doesn't pull an Obama and dismantle his GOTV operation. This night is proof that Texas is pushing left and part of that is that his campaign worked their asses off getting people to the polls. I'm not certain what should be next for Beto the candidate but his campaign needs to become the new backbone for Texas Dems. Who's the chair of the texas democratic party? Can it be Beto?
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General Dog posted:I might have voted for a more boring, centrist Democrat just because I hate Ted’s face so much, but Beto made people excited in a way that made me uncomfortable. I mainly voted for Ted out of spite. By contrast, my boss and I both voted for Beto because we know Cruz is trash but also knew he’d win anyway. But of course individual votes don’t matter.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Who's the chair of the texas democratic party? Can it be Beto? Gilberto Hinojosa and he should've resigned after the SD19 debacle.
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