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Poll: Majority of Texans oppose Trump's border wall
Austin American-Statesman ^ | September 14, 2016 | Sean Collins Walsh

Posted on 09/15/2016 4:51:10 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet
I've tried to explain this before....there are many sympathizers that live near the border....I lived there myself. Alpine Texas....illegals everywhere, they damn near run the place. Ranchers hire them, and money is made trafficking, law enforcement, well...corrupt to the hilt.
61 posted on 09/15/2016 6:52:40 AM PDT by wwcj
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To: liberalh8ter

No probably the bluest of blue tx city...beats Austin by 100 miles....STINKING HEAP OF LIBERAL CACA EL PASO TX!!! I betcha!


62 posted on 09/15/2016 6:55:50 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Carl Vehse
If the story is about some leftist perversion, no matter how morally disgusting, it’s treated as normal

I've long called this the 'People Magazine Treatment.'

In the pre-Internet days People Magazine would always seek out some nobody who had been inexplicably vaulted into national prominence - usually due to so-called bullying (read: rejection of their bizarre or deviant behavior).

No matter how tenuous the subject's family life, People always managed to stage some photo that beat the reader over the head with 'SEE?!?! THEY'RE NORMAL PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!'

Almost inevitably, they would be seated on a couch, playing with a dog (despite serious doubt the dog belonged to them). Shots of them barefoot or cooking up a meal in the kitchen were also among the cliched shots (even for subjects who appeared to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's or KFC).

63 posted on 09/15/2016 6:57:00 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Zakeet

OK, this isn’t going to be well-received, but it’s the truth: long-time Texans are a practical bunch, and we know our geography.

There are places where a wall can’t be built or shouldn’t be built. Look at the Big Bend. In less rugged terrain, who gets the Rio Grande? Do we cede access to Mexico, or do we invade and build on their side?

Texans hate illegality, but we value practicality. (And hate eminent domain.). There are better ways.


64 posted on 09/15/2016 7:02:36 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: PattyinMD

Font page on the ultra liberal Dallas Morning News. I don’t believe anything that comes out of the Dallas Morning News.


65 posted on 09/15/2016 7:04:58 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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66 posted on 09/15/2016 7:05:50 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: klimeckg

Austin is Berkley with Armadillos


67 posted on 09/15/2016 7:21:07 AM PDT by rdcbn ("There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alt)
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68 posted on 09/15/2016 7:28:06 AM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: Zakeet

Curious as to what convoluted reason would be behind a no vote. The article only provides a clue as it’s a Liberal rag.


69 posted on 09/15/2016 7:31:57 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: wastoute
Austin is the second turd in Texas’ “political punchbowl,” right behind Whacko!
But then anywhere politicians and “students” congregate, you get something approximating Austin. And in reality, you don't even need the politicians, just a university will usually to the trick!
70 posted on 09/15/2016 7:32:37 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: ManHunter

Looks like they only poled the Austin Statesman, and the Travis county courthouse.


71 posted on 09/15/2016 8:21:36 AM PDT by N9841A
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To: Zakeet

This poll is from the Austin American Statesman newspaper. Uber lib Austin is an embarrassment to the great state of Texas. Nothing good comes out of Austin. IOW, the poll was slanted toward libs rather than Texas as a whole. LIES!!!!


72 posted on 09/15/2016 8:22:31 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: N9841A

What stands in contrast to the incorrectly opinionated article is that during the primaries, it was the border counties that supported Trump!


73 posted on 09/15/2016 8:23:10 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Zakeet

As soon as I saw the word, “POLL,” I knew whatever followed was going to be bogus. Just like ZERO’s supposed “59% Approval Rating”.


74 posted on 09/15/2016 8:23:24 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: TYVets

When Texas secedes, we’re walling off Austin and leaving it behind.


75 posted on 09/15/2016 8:24:16 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Zakeet

The survey only proves that Texans are smart enough to know that but for a few miles near New Mexico, the entire 1,200 mile length of the Texas border with Mexico is the Rio Grande river.


76 posted on 09/15/2016 8:24:23 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Zakeet

Austin? Okay.


77 posted on 09/15/2016 8:37:45 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. (standing ovation) --Donald Trump)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Thank you.


78 posted on 09/15/2016 9:08:52 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Zakeet

This poll must have only been taken in Austin.


79 posted on 09/15/2016 9:08:52 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: Zakeet

LOTS AND LOTS of illegals in Texas... Could that be a factor here?

Bet on it.


80 posted on 09/15/2016 9:13:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (In war, victory. In peace, prosperity. In industry, ingenuity. In contention, character-D Greenfield)
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