“Texas votes republican” isn’t a very interesting headline I guess.
Heard yesterday that these are mostly returning registered Democrat voters, not first time voters. Not firing up new voters, just getting some of the base to return.
The media wouldn’t mislead us. Would they?
Illegal voters Are Being Supressed!
Republicans turned out on election day, but the early voting trend gave the MSM some sexy headlines to push a meme.
-PJ
Pretty much the answer there.
I am reading the book "Let Trump Be Trump", and a common theme is over and over and over again how the media declared the Trump campaign was in a "death spiral" (its favorite term) blah blah blah.
Same thing now. Pandemonium reigns, people leaving in droves, fighting with each other, etc.
It is why I stopped watching and reading anything from the MSM about 20 years ago. They just want people to be emotionally stimulated and agitated. I don't need that.
For the Republicans it’s all about getting you to donate to their party, for Democrats it’s all about trying to bring out Trump hating voters. Same old dog & pony show for the people.
DEPOPULATE ‘rats from the body politic.
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Maybe if helped mobilize the base.
And they will be 100% true the day we become too complacent.
Drudge sucks.
Looking at prior elections doesn’t tell you what’s going to happen in this one. If it did, we’d not bother with the election at all.
1,000,000 Democrat voters....1.5,000,000 Republican voters....50% more pubs...in Texas that is considered close.
Just the proof of how badly skewed (intentional) and wrong the polls have proven to be shows they are projecting the outcome they want, not reality.
And it's all to fool the foolish...
Obamabot, Clinton, Democrat Media dead silent on any exit polling last night (they knew what was coming, a massive political spanking for every single Democrat in Texas)and this morning about fifteen seconds of blabber!!!
Shades of Wendy Davis live once more!!!
They have limited with success with special elections where they throw immense amount of money at operatives and message in a very limited area to get immense turn-out. This doesn’t seem to work in larger scale elections, however, as their messaging and operations seem effective on larger scales. It may also be that Republicans are reacting to the threat of Democrats having a wave, which is countering it.
The real issue is money. The DNC is quickly drying up their coffers, and though the Dems have quite a presence in PACs and the like, those deal much more with messaging and not boots on the ground GOTV. I have a feeling that if the GOP focuses heavily on GOTV this election, they might end up getting seats. Heavily.
Dems got 500K primary votes in 2012 and 2014 vs 900K this year. GOP totals were about 1.5m 2012, 2014 and 2018. Statewide, no chance of Democratic wins in the general. However, Congressional seats could be lost to the Dems in closely contested districts where previous results involved single digit margins. Those will need big dollars in ads and GOTV to keep Republican.
Usual stuff by the media to scare Republicans. The Democrats have a few problems in Texas, and the the rest of the South.
1) In Texas we still have a mild form of Voter ID, so it’s much tougher to ‘manufacture’ 3 million extra votes.
2) Hispanics here are not militarized as they are in CA and the East Coast. 40% of them voted Republican in 2014. They still help the Dems, but not by nearly as much as they do elsewhere. Sadly blacks here still have escaped the Democrat plantation, so they tend to tighten up our elections.
3) Republicans in Texas won in 2014 by 20%, EVERY statewide Republican won by that margin. And they were all hard-core conservative - talking about the ‘invasion’ from Mexico, for example.
So, for 2018, while the Demographic trends still favor the Democrats, if all things were equal to 2014, they’d lose by something like 17-18% (due to demographics alone).
Having said that, in 2014, we were all unified in fighting Obama. Now we have to deal NeverTrumpers still fighting Trump, Assholes (like Cruz during the 2016 Primaries), and a more fired up Democrat base. On the other hand, they threw away the governor race with some Lupe guy no one ever heard of, so really the only reason for Dems to come out is to ‘send a message’ to Trump...but I doubt there’s enough of them. In 2014 they did run their Abortion Barbie, who did fire up the relative handful of men-hating women here, but she still lost by that 20% margin.