Posted on 11/20/2018 5:31:33 AM PST by reaganaut1
HOUSTON—An energized Democratic electorate wasn’t enough to defeat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz this month, but in the state’s most populous county, it created a blue landslide.
Nearly every Republican in Harris County, home to Houston, was unseated on Nov. 6, including 59 judges and the top executive, Ed Emmett, a moderate who won in 2014 with 83% of the vote.
Mr. Emmett, whose official title is county judge and who was widely lauded for steering the county through the devastation of Hurricane Harvey last year, lost to political novice Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat who said she has never previously attended a meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, which she will soon oversee. The 27-year-old won by less than 2% and will now help run a metro area that encompasses some 4.6 million people, the third most populous county in the U.S.
The Harris County election drew national attention in part because 17 African-American women, all Democrats, won judgeships, a symbolic shift for one of the nation’s most diverse cities. But it also demonstrates the growing political divide between more liberal cities and conservative rural areas that is evident even in red states like Texas, where every elected statewide official is a Republican.
Political analysts say some votes for Ms. Hidalgo likely came not from people who specifically preferred her over Mr. Emmett, but rather Democrats who turned out to vote for Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke and used a “straight-ticket” option to select Democrats in every race with the click of a single button. Mr. O’Rourke lost to Mr. Cruz statewide by a margin of 50.9% to 48.3%, but won Harris County with nearly 58% of votes cast.
“Ed Emmett’s loss 100% has to do with straight-ticket voting
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As if Houston wasn’t bad enough already, it’s about to really go down the crapper now. Liberals/Progressives/Community Activists running the whole show. That place is going to devolve into complete chaos.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
A few years back there was to be a large and serious case dealing with voter fraud. So the day before the trial was to begin the building with all the evidence and all the voting machines is burned to the ground. 10,000 voting machines.
Found some article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/us/politics/11voting.html
The humidity in mid-western cities is bad in the summer. Probably not as much as Houston, but still unbearably bad...
How a Blue Wave Wiped Out Republicans in the Largest County in Texas?....................Voter fraud?.................
They get the government that they deserve.....................
Anchor babies become eligible to vote every day.
It’s only a matter of time before Texas turns blue.
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"Houston, we have a problem."
Gun owners voting Democrat is suspicious.
We knew the Left would ramp up it’s election/voter fraud.
The Democrat sweep of Harris County was NO SURPRISE. Many former Orleans Parish residents now reside in Houston. And the GOP apparatus led by chairman Paul Simpson does not know how to respond to the threat. The end to the straight ticket oval in 2020 may stop some of the abuses of such sweeps, but we shall see.
I voted straight ticket. There was one Dem candidate, running for state senate, who ran to the right of just about everyone (and I'm in Oklahoma.)
I voted against him because of the following:
1. The Republican candidate was good.
2. 'Rats lie
3. If he was really conservative, he would have been driven out of the party long ago.
That wasn’t my quote, why did you direct your response to me?
Well, in strong Republican areas, there is always a Democrat opposition.
In 21st Century blue areas, the GOP has either disappeared or is disappearing.
We are realigning, both major parties are under great stress, but I do believe the GOP will disappear first. Democrats are not in physical danger or at economic risk because of their politics, Republicans are both is enormous areas of territory, including where they used to dominate.
There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear, there’s a man with a gun over there, telling me I’ve got to beware...
“Democrats winning makes no sense in a sane country. Suspicious.”
It’s impossible for Republicans to overcome the millions of people who are taking their eternal dirt nap while voting democrat.
Democrat voters just put congress into lame duck mode nothing of worth going to happen just whining.
I got to the polls 1 hour early although they opened 1 hour late so I stood in line 2 hours. I was between two women who were proud to let me know they were from New Jersey and New York and were here to vote Democrat. After many cracks about dumb Texans I ask a few basic questions about Democrat candidates. They had no knowledge of facts only feelings and talking points. I ask them why they moved to Texas. Answer from both was high taxes and crazy politicians in their home states. I gave up and stared at my phone the rest of the long wait. No. it is not a smart phone!
Pretty sure you read that wrong. At the very least he or she was saying dems are insane.
Mayored by a Radical Lesbian.
FORMERLY mayored by a radical lesbian. Now mayored by radical African American (Sylvester Turner) and chief of confiscation, er, I mean police (Art Acevedo) who was too wild for California Highway Patrol and Austin PD.
It’s blue, and a deep blue at that.
However, Judge Emmett won with 83% of the vote in his previous election, and was running against someone who had literally ZERO political experience. I live in the Houston area, and never saw a commercial for the chick who ended up winning. I did see commercials for Emmett, at least a few.
It’s really a surprise Ed lost, to all of us.
kosciusko51 wrote:
Not to mention that 1 out of 4 people living in Houston was born in a foriegn country.
Including the Chief of Police - born in Cuba, raised in California (LA), who moved to Austin, and then took over the HPD job.
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