Recently sitting at a restaurant bar in Dallas & the Bartender changed the tv to Fox News. I was sho

[riversedge]

Hope for Texas to turn Blue??


Recently sitting at a restaurant bar in Dallas & the Bartender changed the tv to Fox News. I was shocked when the entire bar started booing Fox immediately. Needless to say he changed the channel, everyone applauded. It gave me a glimmer of hope. Fox was booed in Texas y’all. 🤯

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[maxsolomon]

1. Islands of blue in a sea of red.

The Tweeter was in Central Dallas, and they weren't at a Sports Bar.

[Beartracks]

30. Sure, it's sort of a sea of red... but square miles don't vote.

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[Zambero]

2. Encouraging. Hopefully they were booing "from the left"!

Or even the middle. And not Newsmax - OAN - QAnon cultists who perceive Fox as being "too mainstream".

[Cha]

3. I've read here that Dallas has a Dem

Mayor, Eric Johnson.. and he's Black!

Good news about the bar and Beto!

💙💛

[DFW]

14. He's not even the first

Ron Kirk was years ago. Islands of blue in a sea of red, like another poster said, but that’s whrre more and more Texans live!

[Cha]

17. TY for that information, DFW!

💙💛

[spooky3]

34. Isn't that true in most states? It seems the cities are blue and some suburbs

and most rural areas are red. I wonder if the key difference between red and blue states is the proportion of city (and close-in suburb) dwellers in the state population.

[DFW]

36. It's certainly true in Texas, anyway

I suppose one could theorize that the greater one’s proximity to people, the more likely they are to be liberal, educated, and vote Democratic, and the greater one’s proximity to cattle, pigs and live poultry, the greater their tendency to be reactionary snd vote Republican.

But that’s just one theory among many…..

[calimary]

4. Good to hear!

Thanks for the report. Every little bit encourages!

[Traildogbob]

5. Damn

I’m poor but I think I would have bought the whole bar a round.

[Midnight Writer]

6. 42% for a long time incumbent is not good for the incumbent.

Undecided usually break in favor of the challenger.

[SeattleVet]

7. Lots of MAGATs hate Faux since they called the election for President Biden.

Not 'conservative' and pro-tRump enough for them.

They prefer OAN or RSBN for their even-further skewed version of what they call 'news'.

Faux regularly gets trashed over in freeperville.

[AdamGG]

8. Beto will need high turnout

Haven't the Republicans in Texas drastically cut down on early voting and mail in voting? Beto is someone who should motivate turnout among his base, but they're going to need to REALLY turnout.

[GB_RN]

10. That's The Problem...

Democrats are notoriously unreliable in off-year/midterm elections.

[Samrob]

11. Argued with a black friend today about black Americans being so disheartened by what is happening to

the years of hard and dangerous work getting voting rights only to see it all torn apart by the RW SCOTUS and red state governments. Many feel hopeless and are tired. The Pandemic also has taken a toll on active black communities.

Our argument centered around giving up and not giving up, apathy. Why fight hard and still lose? My point was that things may change slowly or even set back a little but not voting is just what the wingers are counting on. Nothing is going to change if we are too disgusted to GOTV. She said she was so tired of all politics after fighting so hard for HRC in 2016 only to see some blacks like Nina Turner and some whites along with Bernie smear her to the point that turned a lot of people against her. Needless to say we had a long , long discussion about 2016 and why that should make it even more important to get out and vote now. She was also angry that Democrats do not seem to be so concerned about voting rights anymore, hates Manchin as much as Trump.

I don't know. Are there many out there who feel the same? She really was serious. Even began to cry near the end of the argument that turned into a conversation. Still friends.

[GB_RN]

13. Manchin and Sinema Have Screwed Us...

The backstabbing they gave us on voting rights will come back to haunt us for a long time to come, I'm afraid. I can understand the loathing...for that and many other reasons.

[NJCher]

25. Decades of activism

And I say the hardest part of democracy is losing an election. You work hard, spend your own money, and you can lose.

[summer_in_TX]

9. I wish some liberal billionaires would follow up on the study in which Fox viewers

were paid $15 an hour to watch CNN for one month during the time those individuals indicated they normally watched FOX News.

Can Fox News viewers be deprogrammed? Paying them to watch CNN makes them less gullible. Participants were paid $15 an hour to watch CNN instead of Fox News: Is it a cheap solution for fake news?

"The findings might suggest that the most cost-effective way for Democrats to win elections is to start running their own infomercials or commercials on the Fox networks."

Best of course would be to replicate and expand the experiment.

[Mr. Evil]

12. I'm thinking overcoming Gov. Putinwannabe

may not be as difficult as has been recently reported. If the Democratic apparatus can get more active (and get more excited as if the chair they're relaxing in is on fire) and encourage every young (potential) voter to vote as if their future depended on it (and it most certainly does) and if they could encourage everyone else that considers themselves a decent human being to get out and vote, then Beto has a good chance.

Beto could bring in more movie and TV production which can be quite lucrative. He can have more appeal to encourage more tech oriented businesses to locate in Texas. Maybe he could also channel a bit of Ann Richards. She had charisma, charm and wit. She had flaws just like anyone else but, she was fairly well liked in Texas and most everywhere else.

Turning Texas blue and ridding them of the morally bankrupt and perpetually corrupt party of red death would be like illuminating a bright shining beacon not only to Texas but, the rest of this exhausted country sick of unethical dishonest behavior and legislative agendas that are teetering somewhere between psychosis and schizophrenia.

Beto can do this. But, he will need the help of every single registered Democrat and every single young person that intends to register as a Democrat before the deadline. Turn Texas Blue!

[LeftInTX]

15. We had 20% of Democratic mail ballots rejected this primary

[DFW]

19. Tell me about it!

I tried three or four times to get my new registration done, and only when I got a sympathetic election worker on the phone did I finally get my registration through.

I have to say this for Dallas. WHEN you get your registration in order, they go the extra distance to make sure you get your ballot on time. They have never missed yet getting me my ballots here in Germany, and in plenty of time for me to get them filled out and sent back to the USA.

[LeftInTX]

21. My sister lives in Qatar. She didn't get her ballot in 2020

She's registered in Dallas.

I think she gave up after that ordeal....

[DFW]

23. The Republicans DO make it hard for you.

I just got a ballot for a regional election, and I noticed something that wasn't on there before: on the outside envelope, not visible once it's sealed, there were two lines for filling my driver's license number and/or the last 4 numbers of my social security number. If I didn't fill out at least one of those lines, the ballot would have been invalidated. Since it was never there before, I almost missed it before sealing the envelope and getting ready to mail it. Sneaky stuff to give the Republican administration one more reason to reject ballots. Since they don't care about history, it's of no consequence to them that they will be noted as the party that knew it would lose if it didn't cheat. They don't care about that. They hope their political descendants will be the ones writing the history books.

[LeftInTX]

26. My neighborhood at 50% rejection rate! All due to the envelope thing.

We're telling everyone to put BOTH

[DFW]

28. I did that, too

It says "either or" but I don't trust them.

[LeftInTX]

29. The way it works, only one number needs to match. So put both of them!

Too many voters only put one on the ballot envelope and it turned out it was not the number in the registration record.

[Mr. Evil]

24. The numbers tell a tale.

12.9% of the 110,967 mail ballots cast in the Democratic primary were rejected, while 11.8% of the 87,980 mail ballots cast in the Republican primary were rejected. We had only 1.1% more rejected than Republicans. That's well within any margin of error. We can win if we apply a Ukrainian style unified and relentless effort.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/06/texas-elections-primaries-ballots-rejected/9491066002/

[LeftInTX]

27. Not in Bexar County!

The GOP only had 10% rejected. Dems had 22%. Plus the sheer number of votes. We had 9,809 Democratic ballots submitted and only 4,371 Republican ballots.

[Quixote1818]

16. Parts of Dallas are DEEP BLUE! nt

[DFW]

20. Even in Highland Park, we are numerous

And we're probably less plentiful there than anywhere else in Dallas!

[Demovictory9]

18. good to hear

[Flaleftist]

22. Supporting genocide is becomming unpopular in Texas? There is hope!

[Liberal In Texas]

38. This is about DALLAS. Not Texas.

We've been blue for a long time and genocide has always been unpopular.

[broiles]

31. I'm wearing my Belt For Texas T shirt right now!

[broiles]

32. I'm wearing my Beto for Texas T shirt right now!

[broiles]

33. Damn auto correct!

[calimary]

35. No worries! It certainly bears repeating!

[MissMillie]

37. I hate to be a sourpuss, but...

The GQPers have given up on Fox News because they want something even more "conservative."

Ever since Fox called AZ for Biden, the RWNJ have abandoned Fox. Fox has been working double-time to get them back, but a large number of them are over at OANN and Newsmax.

So while the bar patrons you witnessed may not be happy w/ Fox, it doesn't necessarily mean that they've all decided that they want to join us in the land of reason.