Could Texas Have an Alabama-Style Senate Upset in 2018?

NBC DFW ^ | Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017 | Julie Fine

[nickcarraway]

Alabama's special election for U.S. Senate ended in an upset Tuesday night, as Democrat Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore in the deeply conservative state.

Texas has a Senate race in 2018, and it will likely be a different story.

Sen. Ted Cruz remains popular in the Lone Star State and has more than $6 million in his campaign coffers.

Cruz was first elected in 2012, pulling off a major upset in defeating then-Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a Republican primary runoff. Now, Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, of El Paso, is hoping to pull off an upset of his own. He says he has a straight-forward approach for facing Cruz.

"It is not a sophisticated strategy, and it's as simple and really as old as democracy itself: getting out, getting after it, meeting the people that I want to represent and serve, going to their communities," O'Rourke said.

O'Rourke's campaign is well underway. He is traveling throughout the state and plans to hit all 254 Texas counties. But Cal Jillson, political science professor at Southern Methodist University, does not expect an Alabama-style upset here in Texas.

"Assuming Ted Cruz doesn't make any mistakes in this race, or no serious disqualifying mistakes, he is going to win in the mid-teens probably. O'Rourke is not going to defeat him unless Cruz stumbles," Jillson said.

Last spring, after it appeared O'Rourke was planning to run, Cruz spoke to NBC 5 about the upcoming campaign.

"There is an old phrase that there are two ways to run: scared and unopposed. Until I am the latter, I will continue to be the former, and so I am going to continue to work each and every day to earn the votes, to earn the support of men and women across the state," Cruz said.

On Wednesday, the senator's campaign said they were not concerned that what happened in Alabama would affect this race. His campaign is expected to go into high gear early in the new year.

Cruz has four Republican opponents but none are major names.

"I think what Alabama showed Texas Republican incumbents is that they have got to pay attention, that they have got to run hard, all the way through," Jillson said.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Maybe Bannon and McConnell can screw this one up as well ...They are off to a great start ...Chuck and Nancy are smiling right now

[davidb56]

Probably won’t get support from the RNC until he starts kissing McCONnel’s and linda grahams butt.

[nickcarraway]

Trump supporters on FR said he would be kicked out of office.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Oh ok ...still carrying that mattress around on your back ?

[boycott]

If they have a Roy Moore, yes.

[Just mythoughts]

Ted Cruz carried Mitch the Senate water, and maintained his inside tract for campaign cash, by bashing Roy Moore... Course the irony would be IF Ted's gets called out on his Oh’ Mandy, Tuesday nights... and iCarly dalliances.

[Yosemitest]

The information in the article Vote Fraud of Alabama from TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2017, deserves saving.

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There is absolutely not any way that Roy Moore lost the Alabama election for United States Senate. This was a matter again of vote rigging in population centers.

Simply look at the massive margins which Doug Jones had to pile up in concentrated population areas. To put it plainly, Alabama is a state of 6 out of 10 voters are Republicans, in remembering this 60 to 40 percent margin, look at these numbers in percentages for Doug Jones.



 Bullock 80.4%
Macon 88.1
Montgomery 72.1
Dallas 74.7
Perry 79
Wilcox 76.7
Hale 87.6
Sumter 80.9
Jefferson 69.6
Mobile 57.2
Madison 56.9


One only sees numbers like this in Pyongyang, Tehran and Peking. In a state of 60% Republicans who were highly motivated for Roy Moore, while Doug Jones was getting Hillary Clinton no shows at his events, and we are to believe that in Macon County 90% of the voters voted for Doug Jones?


County


	Jones	Moore	Write-Ins	Rpt.
Jefferson	121,169	49,910	3,121	85%
Madison	65,664	46,313	3,446	100
Mobile	57,715	41,398	1,300	71
Montgomery	48,186	17,705	743	100
Shelby	27,251	36,424	1,718	100
Baldwin	22,131	38,445	1,699	98
Tuscaloosa	30,858	22,064	1,007	100
Lee	19,810	14,017	672	100
Morgan	10,901	19,187	668	100
Etowah	10,518	15,693	617	100
Calhoun	11,705	14,567	399	100
Limestone	9,606	14,298	515	100
Houston	9,107	14,796	285	100
Lauderdale	9,908	12,775	382	100
St. Clair	6,203	15,876	459	100
Elmore	7,711	14,411	338	100
Cullman	4,156	16,602	324	100
Talladega	9,967	9,698	223	100
Marshall	5,134	13,828	449	100
Walker	4,317	11,909	259	100
Colbert	6,865	7,762	171	100
Autauga	5,606	8,752	253	100
Blount	2,405	11,621	180	100
Dallas	10,492	3,485	60	100
DeKalb	3,559	10,097	234	100
Coffee	3,715	8,052	202	100
Tallapoosa	4,590	7,171	148	100
Dale	3,842	6,988	136	100
Jackson	3,328	7,316	154	100
Russell	6,761	3,622	55	100
Chilton	2,298	7,555	132	100
Covington	2,102	6,825	88	100
Escambia	3,640	4,985	87	100
Lawrence	3,028	5,314	61	100
Clarke	4,346	3,984	43	100
Pike	3,989	4,154	97	100
Chambers	4,247	3,308	75	100
Marengo	4,495	2,804	62	100
Geneva	1,289	5,431	93	100
Marion	1,311	5,268	68	100
Monroe	3,244	3,276	40	100
Macon	5,780	758	20	100
Barbour	3,680	2,699	41	100
Pickens	3,057	2,961	46	100
Franklin	1,770	4,214	48	100
Butler	2,914	2,756	41	100
Winston	911	4,680	67	100
Cherokee	1,525	3,996	110	100
Hale	3,894	1,691	32	100
Bibb	1,567	3,599	66	100
Washington	1,799	3,320	48	100
Henry	1,896	3,014	38	100
Randolph	1,692	3,229	23	100
Lowndes	3,779	988	13	100
Fayette	1,142	3,491	50	100
Sumter	3,527	814	18	100
Wilcox	3,344	999	16	100
Choctaw	2,273	1,949	17	100
Conecuh	2,259	1,815	18	100
Perry	3,138	821	11	100
Greene	3,340	462	9	100
Crenshaw	1,320	2,347	56	100
Lamar	779	2,847	29	100
Clay	985	2,586	44	100
Bullock	2,712	656	7	100
Coosa	1,414	1,867	30	100
Cleburne	594	2,465	30	100



I did an inquiry of the matrix and the numbers which returned were a long the lines of a month ago in Roy Moore won by 62% and Doug Jones lost in 28% of the vote.

This is what the deep state looks like when it steals an election. FOX comes out with a bogus poll to repress voting, but is more to prepare the Republicans for defeat, as Matt Drudge bashes the Alabama Citizens over the head for months, for the fag vote mafia.

What took place is e vote fraud, write ins, vote fraud and busing in voters. At one point Doug Jones somehow got 60,000 votes in a few moments.

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[JoSixChip]

It would be crazy to think there is not the same kind of accusations that can be made against cruz. I think they just skimmed the surface during the primaries.

[nickcarraway]

In a couple years. there won’t be any Republicans around.

[JoSixChip]

In a couple years. there won’t be any Republicans around.

But there may be a Freedom Party around.

[Vendome]

Stupid and wishful thinking.

Cruz continues to be Cruz and returns to the Senate...

[onona]

New Leftist Buzzword (or GOPe, but I digress):

"Alabama Style Upset"

[silverleaf]

Cruz’s bimbo eruptions are going to dwarf Moore’s issues
Im sure the information against him will be used at the appropriate time

[jazzlite]

FL is up for grabs, too, with all the Puerto Ricans flooding in. The leaders we have at present will be replaced by foreigners, many classified as illegal, who will install the form of government they love. That is, unless real civil war breaks out and then, the ultimate outcome, as history tells us might be a surprise. Of course, that will not involve most of us, an awfully lot of us will not be here. We have become a drug/alcohol besotted nation, which hates any kind of moral value which would extend to the next generation. Power and sex are the passion and envy is the driver of the vicious basis for each of the hatreds out there. I ask myself, whether something unknown for generations in our nation will beset us, such as an incurable disease which wipes out generations and does not discriminate between the rich and the poor. Or, whether, something else coming from Mother Nature or God, depending on your beliefs, will transpire to punish and restrain the current evil we are seeing, mostly through the MSM, but, through the entertainment industry, also, on a daily basis. It is likely that the most ruthless and the most determined will win in the short run, but the long haul is totally obscured from sight. Right now, much of America is getting ready to observe Christmas and many will honor the true meaning across this beautiful and awesome land. The true nature of one’s heart, if good, cannot be corrupted by evil envy, greed, criminality and immorality. So, may God bless each and everyone this Christmas with his consistent grace and love

[Krosan]

Of course Cruz will win and the solution to this other problem is simple. Just don’t nominate kiddie diddlers.

[trebb]

If they have a Roy Moore, yes.

And who gave Alabama the Roy Moore? Many thought Trump was wrong and decided to prove it by pushing Moore over Strange - from all over the nation, then reneging when it came to long term support of Moore.

[Maverick68]

You guys are forgetting one thing: The Democrats habit for ALWAYS overplaying their hands.
We are reaching Salem Witch Trial levels of hysteria where it is becoming impossible to tell REAL assault/harassment from the BS.
As with race, the Dems will continue to stoke the hysteria to the point that people won’t care and it will backfire in their faces.
In the case of REAL sexual assault, hang the bastard....In the case of MADE UP sexual assault, hang the bastard making the false accusations.

[CoastWatcher]

Could NBC lean any further to the left without falling over?

[Maverick68]

You are assuming they haven’t fallen over already.