Texas politics going forward

way too many weirdos in Texas. it used to just be in Austin but it looks like the Soyboys are spreading all over

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Patrick, Paxton,

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Have to admit, I'm not too broken up about that.

Meh, Cruz is an easily unlikable Senator for anyone who isn't staunchly conservative. Beto's cult of personality, plus his huge cash injections from out of state, were the perfect storm to make it a tight race. And at the end of the day, that's all it turned out to be was a tighter than expected race.

Demographics in the state are certainly changing and R's need a much better strategy with Latino voters(who actually have a lot more principles in common with conservatives than liberals), but a mid-term Senate seat battle like this will still be pretty rare here IMHO

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Have to admit, I'm not too broken up about that.

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Yeah, I had to hold my nose.

Trump wasn't on the ballot to pull in more support and Beto had to have Hollywood and a frickTON of money to help him lose. This isn't to say that the Texas GOP doesn't need to shore themselves up, but it does mean that things aren't that bad when looking at the full context.

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The one thing that I will say about most dems in Harris County is that they aren't the dems of NY and California. They are much more mainstream. Will they continue to move farther and farther left?? Who knows.

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That's good to know. Travis county dems are in a class all by themselves, but it's what I see regularly.

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way too many weirdos

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They everywhere. Wife just got back from the store here and she said she just saw our first transgender in town. I said was he purty? She said he look like a damn clown. I asked about the tits also but she said she wasn't looking at them.

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i voted L for them and Bush. no nose holding here. eff the lot of them.

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I thought about doing that, but I worried that some whack D would get in. I figured those races would be closer this time.

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I get what you're saying. I think it's a little bit the same with young people of all demos though.

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My boys are always getting in trouble spouting off about D candidates at school. My boy told some kid who was oozing about Beto that he bet he couldn't name one of Beto's policies, that the kid was only going around saying Beto because his parents told him to.