As long as the Californians, Northeasterners and Midwesterners are conservative and industrious, I welcome them, don't you? Greg Abbott sure does!
Posted on 03/04/2014 1:46:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is holding the nation's first primary election Tuesday with a political free-for-all in Republican races that could push the state further right, though Democrats are calling it the next big electoral battleground.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry has decided this would be his last of a record 14 years in office, and his looming exit has set off a scramble resulting in the most open races in Texas in more than a decade.
Republicans are favored to win them all come November — including Perry's seat, despite Democrat Wendy Davis building a national profile and an early $16 million fundraising haul to match. She has energized Texas Democrats, who haven't won a statewide race in 20 years but insist the tide is turning....
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My family and I did our part! I’m praying for the rest of our State!
Please tell us you also voted against George P. Bush, too?
We don’t want Abortion Barbie to fail too quickly. Otherwise her value in sucking up national progressive donations to a losing effort will be lost and the money will trend to potentially winnable races for Dems.
Well said, neighbor!
“She has energized Texas Democrats, who haven’t won a statewide race in 20 years but insist the tide is turning....”
LOL, yeah like Texans will start loving gun confiscation and more taxes
Realize that this is a primary, were parties choose their candidates.
Also realize that since Dems have very few viable statewide candidates, and Texas is an open primary state, that Dems often vote in the Republican Primary to do what they can to skew the vote to the most unelectable "R" candidate.
Yes, they're that devious.
Get Some!
Rah!
As long as the Californians, Northeasterners and Midwesterners are conservative and industrious, I welcome them, don't you? Greg Abbott sure does!
Then who did you vote for for AG?
Went with Patterson in the Land Commissioner race.
I don’t think that she’s going to have a problem in the primary, today.
I’m really talking about November in the above post.
>> As long as the Californians, Northeasterners and Midwesterners are conservative and industrious, I welcome them, don’t you? Greg Abbott sure does!
Yep. AS LONG AS.
That’s all too often NOT the case, though. If it were, Texas would be getting more conservative, not less.
Had to go with Branch on that one.
I do as well.
“Also realize that since Dems have very few viable statewide candidates, and Texas is an open primary state, that Dems often vote in the Republican Primary to do what they can to skew the vote to the most unelectable “R” candidate.”
That’s exactly what they do here in Missouri; that’s how we got Todd Akin as our nominee, lost the general election and kept Claire McCaskill in the Senate. McCaskill and her team pushed for Akin really hard in the primary and Democrats voted in droves, since she was a shoe-in in the Democratic primary.
Open primaries should be outlawed.
2 things we need to result
1. Force Cornyn to runoff
2. no more Bushies
Akin was winning until he made a careless (but not false) gaffe that the Leftist media latched onto and buried him with it.
I wouldn’t fault Akin too much. Any nominee would have been blackmailed.
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I went with Watts.
What makes you think Texas is getting less conservative when Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin’s endorsements are golden and Cornyn has to act like an uber conservative in the primary?
/johnny
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