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Beto O’Rourke May Benefit From an Unlikely Support Group: White Evangelical Women
NY Times ^ | October 10, 2018 | Elizabeth Dias

Posted on 10/10/2018 11:47:26 AM PDT by Morgana

DALLAS — After church on a recent Sunday, Emily Mooney smiled as she told her girlfriends about her public act of rebellion. She had slapped a “Beto for Senate’’ sticker on her S.U.V. and driven it to her family’s evangelical church.

But then, across the parking lot, deep in conservative, Bible-belt Texas, she spotted a sign of support: the same exact sticker endorsing Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat who is challenging Senator Ted Cruz.

“I was like, who is it?” she exclaimed. “Who in this church is doing this?”

Listening to Ms. Mooney’s story, the four other evangelical moms standing around a kitchen island began to buzz with excitement. All of them go to similarly conservative churches in Dallas. All are longtime Republican voters, solely because they oppose abortion rights. Only one broke ranks to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. But this November, they have all decided to vote for Mr. O’Rourke, the Democratic upstart who is on the front line of trying to upend politics in deep-red Texas.

In the Senate race, one of the most unexpectedly tight in the nation, any small shift among evangelical voters — long a stable base for Republicans — could be a significant loss for Mr. Cruz, who, like President Trump, has made white evangelicals the bulwark of his support.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
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1 posted on 10/10/2018 11:47:26 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Doubtful.


2 posted on 10/10/2018 11:48:59 AM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Morgana

“Beto O’Rourke May Benefit From a Likely Support Group: NY Times article Highlighting Wishful thinking”


3 posted on 10/10/2018 11:50:40 AM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: Morgana

This year’s version of Wendy “Abortion Barbie” Davis. The liberals in NY and California love him, but voters in Texas will not elect him.


4 posted on 10/10/2018 11:50:44 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Morgana
The New York Times: dubious source. Anecdotal, with no real evidentiary support. Smells of desperation.
5 posted on 10/10/2018 11:51:22 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Morgana

The Racist NY Times should wish in one hand and crap in the other. See which one fills up first.

Beta isn’t going to win no matter how much they wish for it. He’s running in Texas - not NY or California.


6 posted on 10/10/2018 11:51:48 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Morgana

This appears to be a favorite tactic of the MSM. They find one or two people doing something they approve of, and try to pass it off as a trend.


7 posted on 10/10/2018 11:52:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


8 posted on 10/10/2018 11:52:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Morgana

Hyperventilating anecdotal nonsense.


9 posted on 10/10/2018 11:54:00 AM PDT by Lent
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I know they are desperate. Probably paid these ladies too


10 posted on 10/10/2018 11:54:22 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

NY Slimes? What do they know?


11 posted on 10/10/2018 11:55:00 AM PDT by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: JerryBlackwell

Voting based on physical attraction; not spiritual but carnal


12 posted on 10/10/2018 11:55:06 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Morgana

“I was like, who is it?” she exclaimed. “Who in this church is doing this?”

More importantly, what the hell is wrong with them!


13 posted on 10/10/2018 11:57:25 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Morgana

Yea sure....
The NYT despises evangelicals with a passion which is hard to describe.


14 posted on 10/10/2018 11:57:41 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Morgana

Old tactics in Demcorat poltics started by the Clinton crime machine. Tell supporters to call in to talk shows, or write letters to the editor, and claim to be a “Life long Republican” who suddenly gushing for the current Democrat candidate. Take a look into the background and you find 99% the “Lifelong Republican” is a Democrat stooge lying because they think it gives them credibility.


15 posted on 10/10/2018 11:57:54 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Morgana

Being a RAT, he is a baby killer. No Evangelical woman can abide that.


16 posted on 10/10/2018 12:02:20 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: af_vet_1981

YOU nailed it!!!!!!!!


17 posted on 10/10/2018 12:02:21 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Morgana

I love it when the NY Times writes about fly-over America and particularly evangelicals.

Their tone invariably is like an ivory-tower anthropologist studying some recently discovered tribe of pygmies in the Amazon. Let’s use our theories to describe what makes them act so curiously!


18 posted on 10/10/2018 12:02:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Morgana

Is this the same rag that currently has a live poll running showing betamale trailing by 9?
Don’t they read their own data?


19 posted on 10/10/2018 12:08:16 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: Morgana

“she told her girlfriends about her public act of rebellion.”

She is so edgy.


20 posted on 10/10/2018 12:19:03 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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