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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsaka Ted Cruz is losing. to a Democrat. in Texas. and he knows it.
Long way to NOV but encouraging at this point to see Cruz with his panties in a big wad!
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Adam Parkhomenko
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Adam Parkhomenko Retweeted Patrick Svitek
aka Ted Cruz is losing. to a Democrat. in Texas. and he knows it.
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Monica Fraker
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Replying to @PatrickSvitek @tedcruz @BetoORourke
Sounds like Ted is scared. Rightly so. Texans are fed up. Cruz is history.
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Replying to @PatrickSvitek @tedcruz @BetoORourke
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Flashback: 20 Texas GOP congressmen and both senators voted against Sandy relief. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/08/28/flashback_20_texas_gop_representatives_and_both_senators_voted_against_the.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top via @slate
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: The federal government will need to give over $100 billion towards Harvey relief #CNNSOTU
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Cha
(297,240 posts)hope all of cruz' lies and malfunctions come back to bite him in Nov!
riversedge
(70,221 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)I loved Firesign Theater. We STILL laugh about knowing my husband's startup had gone corporate when they had to take Firesign theater off of the hold button.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Ted Cruz?
Cha
(297,240 posts)Don't have a tv?
riversedge
(70,221 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Always love your informative OPs!
blogslut
(38,000 posts)riversedge
(70,221 posts)blogslut
(38,000 posts)And he's right. We folk in the sticks barely see candidates of either party during election season because they all just assume we'll vote GOP. It means a damned hell of a lot to see these people in person.
flygal
(3,231 posts)I'm cutting down on eating out and donating to Dems until Nov.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Time to start using all the soup cookbooks Ive amassed over he years!
Like this one!
Might lose a few lbs along the way....
Skittles
(153,160 posts)anything to help bring down that slimy POS Cruz
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)<snip>
The flip side, if conservatives are complacent, we know that the left is going to show up, the senator explained. The extreme left, theyre angry. Theyre filled with rage. They hate the president. And mark my words, we are going to see historic turnout from the extreme left in November, which means if conservatives stay home, we have the potential, we could lose both houses of Congress.
Cruz added: In Texas, if conservatives stay home, if we rest on our laurels, we could see Texas turn blue.
While Cruz faces Republican primary challengers, there is no doubt he will face off against state Rep. Beto ORourke (D-TX) in Novembers general election. ORourke has thus far run an energetic campaign in the Lone Star State, raising $2.3 million in the first 45 days of this year alone. During that period, ORourke raised almost three times more than Cruz.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-warns-republicans-we-could-lose-both-houses-of-congress?ref=home
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I keep hearing this term.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)don't want social security and medicare privatized and don't want medicaid ripped away from poor people in the minds of Ted Cruz and republicans.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 7, 2018, 07:50 PM - Edit history (1)
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)But they add "extreme" to make liberal or left-leaning people sound unappealing to Independents or Conservatives who may otherwise be tempted to vote for a Democrat.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)fascists
oligarchs
kleptocrats
dictatorship
PLUTARCHY -(I had to look that one up, but that is what it really is)
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)msongs
(67,406 posts)Stallion
(6,474 posts)and I'd bet the small counties are reporting faster than Democratic strong holds in Dallas, Travis, El Paso, Bexar and Harris County where the big Democratic vote is
Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)So, might narrow one the urban precincts come in, but it will still need an unprecedented GOTV...
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Added that the Dems will gain back a little ground, but for the most part, it's a show that Republicans will still likely dominate the state this November.
Lithos
(26,403 posts)But we did very well at the district level in several key races, one example being District 21. Good chance to flip one or two.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)Democratic: 1,037,779
Republican: 1,543,574
Beto got 61% the primary voters (He had an Our Revolution challenger who got about 25% and another candidate that got about 14%.)
Cruz got 85%. (Four other candidates competed against him. )
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)Remember 9/11, when those cold, uncaring New Yorkers lined up to help their fellow citizens walking across the bridges to get away from the horror? They waited with water, food, even shoes. If anything good could be said about that awful time, the courage, decency, and willingness to help of people with "New York values" is it. Then think ahead four years (almost to the day) to another great American city ravaged by disaster. How did the "southern values" show up in contrast? Policemen waited at bridges leading out of New Orleans to prevent their fellow citizens from escaping to safety. They even shot several of them. I'll take New York values any day of the week, and Ted Cruz can take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. And tRump embodies nothing but his own putrefying self.
And slavering greed, of course.
NBachers
(17,110 posts)If that wasn't an "I Love This Town!" moment, I don't know what was.
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)n/t
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Beto sends Cruz packing. Ted Green Eggs & Ham Cruz is an easy man/thing to detest. And detest him I most certainly do!
catrose
(5,066 posts)"I like Ted Cruz better than anybody in the Senate does--and I hate Ted Cruz." Samantha Bee called him a "used condom in a Gideon Bible," which seems to cover it. I've no idea why Texas replaced Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who actually approached humanity on occasion, with Ted Cruz.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)But its still funny that Cruz is clearly nervous.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Is there already voting going on for the NOV election?
(I know-WHAT election? Well, if there actually is one)
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)If both parties put up similar numbers in november, it wont be close.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)brooklynite
(94,571 posts)Cruz, running basically unopposed has 780,000. O'Rourke has 381,000
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Who knows?
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)I look at hard data. People were excited by the fact that the early vote was heavily weighted towards Democrats. the bottom line is that Republican votes were 50% higher than Democratic votes at the end of the Primary.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Figure there will be some middle ground somewhere
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)The SOS data that was released during early voting were Texas' largest counties. (blue)
Statewide, Democrats increased their voting by 102%, while Republicans increased their's by 16% from 2014
Fuzzy math!
It is the same as interpreting Nate Silver's odds as actual poll numbers!
Iggo
(47,552 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Won't vote to ban assault weapons of war, and will vote to destroy Social Security. All you need to know who he represents.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Texas will vote for this vile, nasty, sub-human piece of DOGSHIT! All because he has an (R) after his name.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)He's got twice the votes. Is that losing nowdays?
ananda
(28,860 posts)I want him to lose SO badly ..
but I don't want to get my hopes up on hearsay.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Republican turnout for the Texas senate primary was about 500,000 votes higher than the Democratic turnout. It was still an impressive turnout for Democrats, they surpassed a million for the first time since 2002. But if last night was any indication, the Democratic push to beat Ted Cruz is more of a pipe dream than reality.
NNadir
(33,520 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)that has been his nickname all his life.
Why is Cruz using Ted instead of his real name Rafael?
walkingman
(7,616 posts)Texas is 56% minority (typical Dem voters) but Texas has a historically low voter turnout. We have been gerrymandered to the point that my vote (TX Dist 27) really does not count and the same things exists all over the state. On top of that the Rethuglicans have done everything possible to make it harder to vote.
Since the GOP attack on Ann Richards in 1994 (being just as nasty as they can) and the election of "W" Bush the GOP has systematically (with the help of Karl Rove) put the "good ole boys" in every statewide political office. Following "W" Rick Perry was elected and it got even worse. Perry went on to be the States longest serving Gov. in Texas history.
Why? In God's name, WHY?
Using God, Guns, and Gays, they drew the hypocritical Christian vote, the Rednecks, Shitkickers, and angry under-educated White masses from rural Texas to the situation we now find ourselves. It totally sucks being surrounded by these nasty folks but I refuse to move. However it is quite depressing to realize that it will probably be this way at least for the rest of my lifetime.
If it were not for family I would leave this place in a "New York minute". Texas has become the "New Mississippi" but worse!
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)When Hurricane Sandy hit NJ and NY, lyin' Ted told Governors Christie and Cuomo to get stuffed. No FEMA money until cuts were made to the budget to offset emergency funds for folks in desperate need of help. When Harvey was bearing down on Texas, lyin' Ted was begging for funds to be released. Why? Because lyin' Ted don't know how to neighbor. He's not a real Texan, and never learned the basic idea that we should help those who need it. Most Texans have this figured out before kindergarten - but not lyin' Ted. He has no sand as they say. Plenty of time before next November to rile up real Texans and toss the worm outta office.