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Can Beto do it?
The Guardian ^ | October 7, 2018 | Ed Pilkington

Posted on 10/09/2018 10:37:29 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

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To: Blue House Sue
I doubt O’Rourke gets more than 12% of the vote. There are Ted Cruz yard signs everywhere.

Really? What part of Texas are you in?

Up until a week or so ago, Cruz signs were as rare as hen's teeth in the DFW area, and Beto signs still outnumber his more than ten to one.

41 posted on 10/09/2018 11:28:19 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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Not going to happen. Being objective, it’s about the same odds as John James unseating Stabenow in Michigan.


42 posted on 10/09/2018 11:30:24 AM PDT by BluegrassCardinal
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To: Blue House Sue

I broke down and put a Cruz sign in my yard, too. I don’t like to do signs any more, but this election is too important.


43 posted on 10/09/2018 11:30:45 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Tell Texas voters Beto is a CULTURAL APPROPRIATOR for purely political purposes.

His birth name, given by two totally Anglo sounding parents is Robert O'Rourke. Beto is his chosen name. Makes him sound Hispanic. The patriotic citizens of Mexican heritage are not going to like a fraud.

44 posted on 10/09/2018 11:31:04 AM PDT by amihow
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To: buckalfa

Cruze will win, but the troubling thing is that Cruz won by 16 points in 2012. Demographics, slowly but surely, becomes destiny.
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i’m a cruz supporter but the guy has zero charisma

If he were a good politician he’d win by 16 again


45 posted on 10/09/2018 11:33:03 AM PDT by SPRINK
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To: Blue House Sue

Texas Democrats usually get more than 40% of the vote now.

Demographics are changing.


46 posted on 10/09/2018 11:34:19 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: amihow
Beto is his chosen name. Makes him sound Hispanic.

Ironically, he's running against a Republican named Raphael Eduardo Cruz.

47 posted on 10/09/2018 11:36:47 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

WHat concert was he at that there were 40,00 kids there?


48 posted on 10/09/2018 11:38:29 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Some Texans on this board may tell me otherwise, but I know someone who has lived in the Dallas area for many years and he says the number of liberal Democrats who have taken up residence is noticeable. I hope that is not true. And I hope these polls that show Beto within striking distance are not true.


49 posted on 10/09/2018 11:42:16 AM PDT by trublu
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

He makes my skin crawl. He lies and lies in his ads. He is 100% anti-American and anti-Constitutional.


50 posted on 10/09/2018 11:42:30 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

NBC News was promoting an upcoming report on turning Texas blue. I had to laugh. Last two polls (post-Kavanaugh) had Cruz up 9 and 6 points respectively. This is the time when pollsters stop lying and start caring about their professional reputations.


51 posted on 10/09/2018 11:47:18 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

In the Texas primaries, the Republicans had over 500,000 more voters than the Democrats. Cruz received almost 280,000 more votes than all of the Democrat candidates combined.

Unless the cemeteries empty for Beto or 500K Republicans stay home, I don’t see where Beto is going to get enough votes to win.

Stranger things have happened, so make sure you vote !


52 posted on 10/09/2018 11:48:05 AM PDT by BradyBug (Holy Rolling Redneck)
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To: RightGeek

How many will not vote for him because “Beto” didn’t make it onto the ballot afterall.


54 posted on 10/09/2018 11:51:51 AM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: TADSLOS

Or as “Native American” as Lizard Warren


55 posted on 10/09/2018 11:52:38 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Independents/Dems/Non-voters" Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I do not like or trust Ted Cruz, but if I were a Texan, I would vote for
Cruz over that scum Beto in a heartbeat.


56 posted on 10/09/2018 11:56:11 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Betno. I was stationed in Texas in the Navy and have been back many times. He will lose by more than 20 points.


57 posted on 10/09/2018 12:45:08 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

No.


58 posted on 10/09/2018 1:15:21 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jyo19

Robert Francis O’Rourke, captain of the Columbia rowing team. Rowing is not a good ole boy sport.


59 posted on 10/09/2018 1:21:11 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Texas is overrun by Californians.


60 posted on 10/09/2018 2:05:11 PM PDT by 353FMG
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