all the doubting here makes me think that if james wins that cons party will have a meltdown
That’s why I want him to win, I want him to win to own the chudservatives
fuck off with this maybe could be shit.
I'm convinced this kind of coverage is engineered for no purpose than to make people go "Well, it looks like a shoe in, so I dont have to go deal with the crowds" and next thing you know republican has won by 30%
Oh yeah, that's why a republican wins texas by 30% in a midterm. lol
All the people in here commenting, like "oh no, there's a hope! Step on it!"
Wouldn't want people to actually get fired up and vote, now would we?
This is Lemmy. It's terminally online doomers and pompous Linux dweebs.
Ive been hearing this since Bush and it hasn't once been close. So much like my football team, I'll believe when I actually see some results
It's really funny as an outsider. It's been decades of "Texas is going to go blue" lol
Yeah, as in “blue balls.” All this edging, smh
Don't expect much from the cowboys until Jerry kicks the bucket.
Doubt it, I'm not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They've had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.
...Working as intended.
As a Californian who's only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.
I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don't even need a USB drive now.
Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don't feed them the sound byte.
"I'd rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I'd give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children"
Mhmm yep. Very normal society.
Timing also matters. When things are shitty people want change.
Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely "wish I knew how to quit you" with them.
Texas is like ground zero for voter disenfranchisement though. They do it better than anyone.
A lot of shitting on the possibility here. People have a right to be skeptical, but it's also hard to overstate how many moderate Republicans Ken Paxton has already alienated in Texas. Paxton has impeached by the Republican-led Texas House for his criminal activity. There are large swathes of suburban voters who may typically vote Republican but who would skip right over Paxton on that ballot.
At the same time, Talarico's ability to speak confidently and comfortably about religion and in churches is giving him a huge leg-up in making inroads with those same disaffected suburbanites.
The calculus is not the same as it was with Cruz vs O'Rourke in 2018. Talarico's prospects today are solidly better than O'Rourke's were at any point during his campaign.
I always felt like O’Rourke was mostly propped up by the party. I never really thought he had a serious shot at winning a statewide election.
Talarico is a genuine Christian. Try as they might, the Christian-ist Christians of Christian-By-God-Texas can’t make a dent in his actual real Christian love, and members of their flocks are noticing that. I see countless posts saying Jesus was a progressive, but precious few politicians that embody that. I hope he does well. That said, this is Texas. They may hate Paxton, but to they hate him enough to vote for gulp A DEMOCRAT!?
Beto was doing great, right up until he went on a big Texas radio show and announced intended to take away their guns. You could almost hear the air hissing out of the balloon.
He lost by a tiny margin. I strongly believe that dumb statement cost him the seat. If he had taken Cruz's seat, and Talarico took Cornyn's seat, we'd have two Dem senators from Texas.
But Beto couldn't keep his mouth shut about guns in Texas.
In true democrat fashion, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I didn’t hear about the radio show, but I recall him saying it during, I think, the Democratic Presidential Debate in 2016?
There was one particular radio appearance that he was particular enthusiastic and confrontational, like he could get. That kind of attitude was taking him far, until he applied it to guns. In Texas.
Previous Dems had lost by double digits, but Beto got within a couple of percentage points. It seems onvious that gun statement made the difference.
It was over when he said hell yah he would take their ARs.
A lot of shitting on the possibility here.
For good reason, this claim is made constantly.
I wrote more beyond those first 8 words
Yeah, providing nothing that could convince a realistic person that Texas is "blue".
Don't underestimate how stupid Republican voters are either.
I’ll believe it when I see it. You can serve filet mignon and Texans will still vote for feces on a platter. Example: Ted Cruz.
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Is he a liberal or progressive?
I want to believe eapecially since Paxton may be the worst fucking candidate ever.
However i think even assuming Talarico wins Hot Wheels will find a way to claim the election is rife with fraud and appoint Paxton anyway.
Wouldn't it be purple, at best? Flipping one Senate seat in a red state isn't going to make the whole place blue.
For sure, but even making Texas remotely competitive would be a huge blow—it’s a large state that takes a lot of money to reach with political advertising, and if republicans have to start campaigning hard to keep their bedrock state then that time and money drain can start dragging other races.
Don't give me hope... Just, don't. 😕
I'm at least semi-optimistic because they've known he was the nominee for over a month yet their best insults are calling him "Talifreako" and a "Vaygun". 🤔
The only thing Texas has ever turned blue:
Might want to read up on Ann Richards, for one.
This feels like a fetish.
c/ballbusting
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