All the people in here commenting, like “oh no, there’s a hope! Step on it!”
Wouldn’t want people to actually get fired up and vote, now would we?
They don’t want to be traumatized by marketing campaigns, yet again, that give them hope, only to have reality crush it mercilessly. It’s defensive, and protective, and makes complete sense, living in a hellscape where politic and corporate lying is ever present and hazardous. They don’t want others to be hurt.
So you’re really just shitting on victims for trying to protect others.
Believe it when i see it.
I have friends that have or currently do live in Austin.
They have told me the cities are very left leaning.
In Illinois, it’s mostly Chicago that keeps this state blue and keeps the red plague from taking over.
It’s surprising how much of a foothold the reds have over Texas with Houston , Dallas, and Austin.
3 big cities.
City people are generally more democratic and left leaning. How are these 3 cities not having more of an impact on political seats in Texas?
The population of the Chicago metro area (excluding the 2 WI and 2 IN counties that get lumped in) accounts for 66% of the population of the state.
The combined population of the Houston, Dallas, and Austin metro areas only account for 58% of the population of the state.
Not only that, most of Chicagoland is blue, but you cannot say the same for Texas cities where most of the outlying suburbs of the metro area are red.
The population of Houston proper, Dallas proper, and Austin proper combined only make up 15% of the population of Texas. But Chicago proper alone makes up over 21% of the population of Illinois. Throw in Aurora and Naperville to make the 3 city comparison a little more fair, and you get almost 26% of the population of IL.
People in Texas cities wayyyy less likely to vote. The people in the country side voting red show up every single time.
Don’t give me hope… Just, don’t. 😕
“X to turn Texas State Blue” has to be the most reused political headline of all time.
It translates to “Texas has a massive media markets and consultants get 20% on when they sell an ad-buy on behalf of a candidate, so lets throw money at Texas because it makes us more money” when you translate it to DNC consultant.
I hear it about as much as I hear about the year of the Linux desktop.
It’s not turning anything until we get rid of Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Best Talarico can do is one of those three. This state is so fucked up. Our elections are fucked.
I moved from Austin to Jackson Hole, Wyoming after 23 years there. Wyoming is still red, but at least they leave me the fuck alone. Texas is always all up in your shit.
Especially for a state that’s supposed to be all about rugged individualism, they can’t stay out of your pants
There is next to 0 public land in Texas too, people like to compare it to the western states and its just wrong. The state of small government (for corporations and civil protections)
And we’re supposed to be fervent conservationists with respect for our parks and wildlife, but you can’t eat a fish you catch here without getting poisoned by 20 kinds of chemicals
Talarico is running against Paxton for which is going to replace Cornyn.
Gina Hinojosa is running against Abbott, the limited polling so far has her losing by 3-8%. Which is within striking distance depending on what else goes on. I would assume that if Hinojosa wins, Vikki Goodwin will beat Patrick.
This is nice. We have to win harder than they can cheat.
https://texaspublicopinionresearch.substack.com/p/new-poll-james-talarico-leads-ken
It’s because I think the GOP has all the voting machines rigged, so doesn’t matter who people vote for only GOP can win in any major election in Texas. So this guy will not get elected. Even if everyone in Texas votes for him.
The problem with fucking idiots is that they’re always fucking other fucking idiots and creating more fucken fucking idiots!
That about sums up my life experience.
For a visual version, this process is graphically explained in the first few minutes of the documentary Idiocracy.
And strangely enough I could only watch about 15 or 20 minutes of it and couldn’t watch anymore. And let me add I was a HUGE B&B fan!
Take my click!
Doubt it, I’m not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They’ve had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.
…Working as intended.
As a Californian who’s only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.
I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don’t even need a USB drive now.
Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there’s always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.
Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don’t feed them the sound byte.
The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it’s really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.
And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There’s a good chance that if he leaves office, he’ll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there’s not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.
So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.
“I’d rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I’d give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children”
Mhmm yep. Very normal society.
The gun comment was during the 2020 presidential primaries, didn’t affect his 2018 Senate run. Definitely affected the 2022 Governor race, but I honestly don’t think he actually wanted to run and just did so for the state party to save face when there were literally zero serious candidates announced for the primaries before he announced (like seriously nobody with any political experience, and one candidate without even a web site).
Timing also matters. When things are shitty people want change.
Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely “wish I knew how to quit you” with them.
Texas is like ground zero for voter disenfranchisement though. They do it better than anyone.
Well an unfortunately large portion of the population doesn’t have empathy and/or is subject to mis/disinformation all their waking hours. Their neighbor freezing should have paid or prayed more. The women and children dying from bad maternal-infant care same thing. Timing in this sense means things that actually affect what unempathetic and misinformed people care about and you can’t hide from which are the price of gas and groceries because it hits them in the wallet every time they pay at the store.
I’ll believe it when I see it. You can serve filet mignon and Texans will still vote for feces on a platter. Example: Ted Cruz.
I’m at least semi-optimistic because they’ve known he was the nominee for over a month yet their best insults are calling him “Talifreako” and a “Vaygun”. 🤔
I want to believe eapecially since Paxton may be the worst fucking candidate ever.
However i think even assuming Talarico wins Hot Wheels will find a way to claim the election is rife with fraud and appoint Paxton anyway.
Considering that Abbott is in charge of the fix, he would know
Wouldn’t it be purple, at best? Flipping one Senate seat in a red state isn’t going to make the whole place blue.
For sure, but even making Texas remotely competitive would be a huge blow—it’s a large state that takes a lot of money to reach with political advertising, and if republicans have to start campaigning hard to keep their bedrock state then that time and money drain can start dragging other races.
The only thing Texas has ever turned blue:
This feels like a fetish.
c/ballbusting
That is a nice thought/expectation/wishful thinking… but seeing L.A. on track to chose a deeply shitty reality tv scumbag as Mayor, I am doubting Texans will do anything to help themselves
Seen this headline with slightly different details about 100 times since the early 2000s.
News media in a country with a two-party system: dangling a carrot in the right spot to constantly keep the people in charge in the butter zone.
Fuck’en A!
