It's been a brutal year for Texas Democrats

Corpus Christ Caller-Times ^ | November 8, 2004

[D-fendr]

I'm gettin tired of this kinda crap:

After all, a few shifts in a few states - Ohio, especially - could have installed John Kerry in the White House.

Yes and shift one fifth the amount of those votes and Jimmy Carter would have never left the peanut farm; JFK would be an aging playboy now…

[WOSG]

"It wouldn't surprise me if Chet Edwards doesn't switch before the next election."

Well, he's a liberal Democrat and a snake... if he does switch, we'll snuff him out in the primary.

[rhinohunter]

Unfortunately, not true. Llyod Doggett was targeted also.

While it is technically true that Doggett and Green survived, they did so by stealing districts designed to elect Hispanic rats. So, these were no net loss to the GOP since those seats had been allocated to the rats anyway. And actually this is better because we can target them again in 2012. If the districts were held by Hispanics, as they were intended, they would be sacrosanct under the Voting Rights Act and we would not be able to touch them.

Anyway, I contend that when we say that that pro-infanticide POS Chet Edwards was the sole survivor of the 2003 redistricting saga, we are essentially making a true statement. We intended to convert 10 white rat seats into 7 GOP and 3 rat minority (2 hispanic, 1 black) districts. We fell only 1 short of this goal.

[rhinohunter]

We picked up a net of 4. Does this mean that without redistricting, we would have lost seats? Or, does it indicate that the TX re-districting didn't materialize as positively (far less than 7 seats) as we had hoped?

A little of both. We fell 1 short in TX. Pro-infanticide Chet Edwards held on.

Outside of TX, we fell 2 short. (Or only 1 short if we can pick up LA-7). We gained 2 (KY and IN) and lost 4 (CO, NY, GA, IL). Crane losing in IL was a surprise to me. I didn't realize he was in any trouble, but I guess when your state party is in as bad a shape as the IL GOP, things like this happen. I was also hoping we might be able to knock off Moore(KS), Herseth(SD), or Pomeroy(ND).

[deport]

It wouldn't surprise me if Chet Edwards doesn't switch before the next election.

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Curious....... Why would you think that?

[green iguana]

If the districts were held by Hispanics, as they were intended, they would be sacrosanct under the Voting Rights Act and we would not be able to touch them.

That's a good point that I hadn't thought of. Thanks.

Technicalities aside tho', Doggett's still in Congress, and I really wanted him gone...

[lormand]

I live just a few miles from the Travis County line. I am increasingly more proud to NOT live in Travis County.

[NYC Republican]

Thanks for the details