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Texas Tribune Offers Sad Turnout News for Lone Star State Democrats
Newsbusters ^ | May 27, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/27/2018 7:38:07 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

My NewsBusters colleague Tom Blumer has pointed out how old media outlets have failed to report on the stunning shift in the Reuters/Ipsos poll showing the midterm election choices swinging towards the Republicans. Not only is much of the mainstream media ignoring polls showing this shift they are also failing to report on evidence on the ground in elections themselves that enthusiasm for the Democrats is waning.

One such significant bit of evidence occurred in the recent Texas primary runoff elections in which Democrat turnout hit a record low. This was reported by the Texas Tribune, normally a liberal cheerleader for the Democrats to the extent that they refrained from reporting on a significant setback in the Wendy Davis campaign in 2014 when she was running for governor in that state. However, even the Texas Tribune can't hide the sad truth as it reported on May 22 that Voter turnout in a Texas Democratic gubernatorial runoff hasn’t been this low in nearly 100 years:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; bluewave; democrats; texas; texasdemocrats; texastribune; tx2018
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Blue Wave? So far in Texas it is a Blue Fizzle.
1 posted on 05/27/2018 7:38:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Texas has not had a state-wide democratic office holder since 1994.


2 posted on 05/27/2018 7:46:12 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: PJ-Comix

I don’t think a fat open lesbian who owes $12,000 in property taxes being the Democrat nominee for Governor is going to help with Democrat turnout.


3 posted on 05/27/2018 7:49:14 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: PJ-Comix

The Democrat for Senator has advocated banning assault weapons!


4 posted on 05/27/2018 7:52:19 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Slyfox

And the only reason she won was because of the idiot comment made by the then sitting governor about rape.


5 posted on 05/27/2018 7:53:08 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Clayton Williams was not a sitting governor


6 posted on 05/27/2018 7:55:42 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: Slyfox

This article claims that the “conservatives” and far-Right were defeated in the Republican Party.


7 posted on 05/27/2018 7:55:55 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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Well, George P. Bush survived his primary.


8 posted on 05/27/2018 8:03:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: fortheDeclaration

That was 1990, not 1994, when Ma Richards beat Claytie.


9 posted on 05/27/2018 8:04:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Texas isn't going to elect this as their governor

Valdez goes into the November general election as the first openly lesbian
and first Latina candidate to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in
Texas. She told cheering supporters in Dallas that she's not deterred by
conventional wisdom that she faces long odds against Gov. Greg Abbott, a
well-funded incumbent.

10 posted on 05/27/2018 8:05:49 PM PDT by deport
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To: PJ-Comix

The only Blue the Dems will see in November will be them singing the blues...


11 posted on 05/27/2018 8:26:45 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: PJ-Comix; LS

Ping to TX Blue Wave!


12 posted on 05/27/2018 8:56:44 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God for Donald J. Trump- El Presidente Por La Vida !!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Go Lupe!


13 posted on 05/27/2018 9:26:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Think about it...everything Odungo gets involved with turns to Shiite...
He’s the turd in the punch bowl, the hair in the soup,the piece of feather on a fried chicken wing....


14 posted on 05/28/2018 12:07:35 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: matthew fuller

Hehehe....she needs to talk to Maxine Waters and buy herself a better quality wig.


15 posted on 05/28/2018 1:23:57 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Slyfox

What most people don’t know is that Texas didn’t elect a Republican to a Statewide office until 1976.


16 posted on 05/28/2018 2:18:56 AM PDT by Federal46
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“The South will rise again” actually turns out to be Republican.


17 posted on 05/28/2018 3:50:54 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: PJ-Comix

Not only is much of the mainstream media ignoring polls showing this shift they are also failing to report on evidence on the ground in elections themselves that enthusiasm for the Democrats is waning.

Yeah? So? Good for them....let their constituencies slumber on safely thinking someone else will go vote....Then they can wake up to a stunning reality day after the election. Like 2016.


18 posted on 05/28/2018 4:08:07 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: WASCWatch

“I don’t think a fat open lesbian who owes $12,000 in property taxes being the Democrat nominee for Governor is going to help with Democrat turnout.”

Surprised that the Democrats are throwing the governor’s election. They were bound to lose anyway, since Abbott is a popular person in Texas, but by throwing it, as opposed to running a legal person without tax ‘issues’ who could also fire up the base (such as Wendy Davis, again), there chances down-ballot drop tremendously.

So it looks like Cruz is finally safe and Republicans will have another mid-term sweep in Texas.

Good.


19 posted on 05/28/2018 4:53:18 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BobL

Cruz has always been safe.


20 posted on 05/28/2018 6:52:44 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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