Ralph Hall is a very decent man...no reason to demean him.
Exactly. He did a good job.
Absolutely, the last time Hall being defeated would have something to celebrate by jumping up and down like some people are doing on this thread, would have been in 2002, the last time he ran as a rat. He’s been a good conservative since he switched. This was not about “the Tea Party” versus a “RINO”.
But the voters have spoken, they were concerned about his age I’m sure, the only real reason to vote against him. An eye will have to be kept on the new guy to make sure he’s really a conservative (Paul might have endorsed Hall, presumably out of personal friendship, but the Paulbot infested Tea Party Express endorsed Ratcliffe).
In district 23 Biracial (Black/White) ex-CIA agent Will Hurd beats former Rep. Quico Canseco by a wide 19 point margin. I’d say this decreases the of winning this Hispanic seat but maybe not, Canseco clearly did not run a good campaign to get blown out like that. And he did lose in 2012 even as Romney carried the district. I don’t know.
In District 36, safe GOP seat, dentist Brian Babin beat Ben Streusand. Both appeared to be conservative.