Posted on 01/28/2020 8:36:11 PM PST by lonestar67
Renée Cross, senior director of the Hobby School of Public Affairs, said Democrats overreached in painting the Fort Bend district as a bellwether and cast doubt on whether the result serves as an accurate forecast of the November 2020 results.
“I think the Democrats to a certain extent shot themselves in the foot with that because the expectations were so high,” she said. “If you look at voting history for the last 10 years, to think they were just going to flip this seat in a special election in January after we had so many elections the last few months, that was really reaching.”
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Good point on Sen. Cruz.
And where is “John Wayne McCornyn”, the tough guy in his ads for re-election?
AWOL.
Cruz’s recent behavior has totally changed my mind about him. He is a much better Senator than presidential candidate.
I love it when you talk like a whore.
Lol!!!!
;)
On a side note, about this Special Election....
Information to voters was confusing and minimal. The map for TX House 28 was no where to be found on any articles that anyone could find.
The GOP ‘leader’ for this area (Ft Bend, mostly) is no where to be found....never see/hear ANYTHING from him/her.
Local GOP organization is really lacking.
I have similar sentiments for the TX GOP leadership. We receive more election info from the NRA, than we do from TX GOP :(
Well said!
They keep looking for a bellwether special election, like a pimply-faced teenage boy looking to get lucky a glee club meeting. It’s pathetic.
I’m actually going to disagree with you on this, and I’ve always been a Cruz supporter. The Dems saw Cruz as more vulnerable as an outspoken freshman member and as an “enemy” of the establishment, which more than a few Republicans wouldn’t be unhappy to see taken out. As we saw, more than a few suburban women threw a temper tantrum in 2018 and helped install the radical Stalinist House, and permitted close calls in other races (which allowed Beta O’Cuck to do a bit better than the average Dem).
If John Cornyn, scion of the TX party establishment, had been up in 2018, Beta would not have even run. You would’ve had another second tier or desultory opponent. Beta doesn’t want to run against Cornyn. The “R” party establishment would’ve covertly undermined Beta had he tried to run against their guy, something they don’t do for the anti-establishment guys (Cruz). Beta took his best shot in a favorable year, and came up short.
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