Posted on 11/07/2018 8:08:46 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas
....Counties that haven’t voted for a Democrat in decades turned out for Beto O’Rourke in his unsuccessful bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, and he picked up enough support in ruby red Republican counties to force Cruz into single-digit wins. ... Tuesday night's results suggest that the Republican firewall in the suburbs could be cracking....
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I was more dismayed by how many votes Lupe Valdez got. It should have been 80-20.
Notice thee articles only mention the Cruz race, and never the Abbott race. So disingenuous.
Democrats plan on turning Texas into the next California. And immigration is their tool for doing it.
70 million can buy a lot of votes
Ping!
I still think Texas is a solid Republican state, but the days of a candidate winning just because they have an “R” next to their name are over. They need to be solid candidates, and while I like Cruz personally, he does seem to rub a lot of people the wrong way for some reason.
“Beto” among his many successes is that he may be the first losing candidate to have more coattails than the candidate who defeated him.
Yes, indeed, TX suburbs are no longer reliable for conservatives. We are running out of safe spaces at a rapid rate. Abbott should suspend his efforts to attract CA and NY businesses to TX.
I think it’s the Bernie-bots, not the suburban mother. He has gotten the younger generation into voting and that would explain all the votes for socialists too.
Someone calculated that it worked out to a little under $21 per vote, for what it was worth.
Thank God we didn’t get the Amazon HQ.
From your link....
In Central Texas, O’Rourke broke the electoral status quo in Hays and Williamson counties, rapidly growing bedroom communities taking in new — likely liberal — residents from Austin.
Hays County, home to Texas State University, hadn’t voted for Democrats at the top of the ticket since 1992. But Republicans’ control of one of the fastest-growing counties in the country has been weakening for years. Last night’s results indicate the county is trending blue. It swung hard toward the Democrats, giving O’Rourke a 15.3 point margin and narrowly opting for Gov. Greg Abbott’s Democratic challenger Lupe Valdez despite the 9-point margin of victory Abbott claimed over Democrat Wendy Davis in 2014.
The flip to blue was less all-encompassing in Williamson County. O’Rourke claimed a 2.8 margin of victory, which was notable given how Republicans have long maintained a strong advantage there. Abbott easily held onto the county, but another statewide Republican — Attorney General Ken Paxton — lost there.
In a coup for Democrats, Tuesday night proved that Harris County has ceded its title of the biggest battleground in Texas. Democrats ended a long streak of remarkably thin electoral margins in the state’s biggest county in 2016 when it awarded Hillary Clinton more than a 12-point margin of victory. O’Rourke grew that advantage this year by several more points.
Perhaps more notable was O’Rourke’s performance in neighboring Fort Bend County, another suburb that had long been considered red but is in the battleground category now.
The most ethnically diverse in the United States, Fort Bend swung by 12 points in the Democrats’ column in 2016. It was an electoral flip that Democrats hoped would be a sign of things to come, particularly given that the county’s demographics could help it turn this diverse pocket of Texas reliably purple in the future. If Abbott’s razor-thin margin of victory — just .3 percent — and losses by other statewide Republicans are any indication, future elections don’t bode well for the GOP.
Beyond the boundaries of Dallas County, North Texas has long stood as a bastion of the GOP’s political strength in the state. But this year, O’Rourke cut into Republicans’ control in several of those strongholds.
O’Rourke narrowly flipped Tarrant County — considered the most conservative urban county in the country — with a .6 percent margin. It was a remarkable outcome in the third largest county in the state, but it offers no certainty for the long-run.
Democrats have also been making gains in Collin County in the last few elections, with the results of their efforts exacerbated in the Trump era. The county easily stayed in the Republicans’ column, but Cruz’s 6-point margin of victory is a fraction of Republicans’ past wins.
In Denton County — just north of Tarrant — Democrats have steadily cut away at Republicans’ margins of victory in the last three elections. Trump’s 20-point margin in 2016 was already a drop from Abbott’s 32-point win in 2014.
Last night, Cruz won the county by just 8 points.
Been living in Texas for years. New York native
Texans are wimpay!!! In comparison. They are giving their state away.
Illegal’s. And California liberals.
That’s all
The good news is I think the Rats shot their wad on this election, I don’t see them duplicating this enthusiasm in the near future.
They will be disappointed with the Rats in the House, when they don’t deliver on what they promised.
The price we pay for a good economy, it attracts the locusts.
Came too close for comfort in the usually solid red district 31 where I live. Lots of libs moving in taking tech jobs in Austin. Too expensive to live there, so they commute to work from our county.
We can’t give up the cities and the suburbs and expect the rural areas to save the day... we have to fix this!
Allowing the colonization of large areas of our country and awarding their children citizenship is coming back to bite US.
You hit the nail on the head. Lots of people from leftist, high-tax states have moved to Texas and brought their stupidity with them.
With Harris County losing Judge Emmett and Ft Bend County losing Judge Hebert, businesses who may have been considering Houston - Sugar Land area, will likely put the kibosh on their plans.
The Houston EDC cannot be happy, right now.
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