Here we go again. Two conservatives in Stovall and Stockman end up taking votes from each other and Cornyn sails again to another GOP nomination for senate. Are we going to have to deal with this kind of a scenario again in 2016 during the presidential race? We can’t keep splitting conservative votes because all it does is give us a RINO candidate for office, and I’m getting tired of this lesser of two evils nonsense every time I get into a voting booth.
It's going to take Stovall, Stockman, Vega, and all of the others running to keep Cornyn under 50% and force him into a run-off. Cornyn loses if he goes to a run-off election.
That's exactly how Cruz beat Dewhurst.
/johnny
Cornyn can have a majority. But if he doesn't get 50%, he is forced into a run-off with #2.
There are 8 candidates and a lot of anti-Cornyn sentiment in the conservative groups. In a non-presidential election year primary, the politically informed groups are a higher percentage of voters. I suspect Cornyn won't get 50%. Run-off elections tend to have and even higher percentage of politically informed as the average voter won't bother to show up.
Then in the run-off, Cornyn won't get the opportunity to have the opposition split.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Texas has a runoff primary system. In part one, the ONLY objective is to keep cornball from getting 51% of the vote. I can vote for Mickey Mouse in part 1 and the only important thing is that it was NOT a vote for cornball.
In the runoff, the top 2 candidates go head to head. There is no splitting the vote here, it is chose one or the other.
This system lets everyone vote for their favorite candidate in the opening round. The more people in, the better!
Didn’t Stockman drop out? Or maybe is in just for the fool’s contributions? Either way we don’t need a clown even a conservative one.
Stovall has my vote. If he makes the runoff, he’ll get my money.