By the way, if you're in Illinois, District 13, vote for ERIKA HAROLD in the primary! :)
2014 Primary Results:
Cornhole 778,912
Not Cornhole 531,351
Primary Results Comparison:
Cornhole 2008: 994,222
Cornhole 2014: 778,912
Voters Lost by Cornhole in 2014 vs 2008: 215,310
Cornhole Lost 21.7% of his previous primary voters
Winning a primary got very expensive for liberal republicans.
/johnny
Stockman seems a strange candidate period.
If anything cornyn won via vote splitting.
No viable conservative stood out so cornyn’s name recognition carried him through.
Given all the minimal banks accounts of the “challengers”, I suspect the dead enders are more interested in the pension rather than the service.
Nothing will change with liberal Republicans except the Democrats will slowly win. That is not a victory.
Too bad. Cornyn is worthless.
I guess cujones are shrinking in TX.
I don’t buy for one moment these results. No one here wanted these two; but somehow we got them. Must of been those 2 for one voting machines you don’t see. Also, how anyone could vote for either Patrick or Dewhurst is beyond me. They might as well be the same person. I thought people wanted change. And wet behind the ears George P. Bush who just wants to continue the family business. Well, something stinks in TX right now and it’s not the voters.
40% of Texans voted against Cornrows many of those will not vote for him in November. I for one will be voting for his RERAT opponent.Screw your silly lectures I will be voting for the enemy one way or another.
We are going to have to figure out a ground game that can counter TV ads. I only saw Cornyn ads on TV. The only thing relevant at the voting location was a big yellow sign that said “Cornyn funded Obamacare”. No candidate name, no indication of who to vote for other than Cornyn. I saw nothing from Stovall, who got my vote because I researched it.
Time to get smart, and start using social media and other methods to get our candidates name recognition, and get voters educated. It has to be daily, consistent, continuous activity, starting now.
where did those challengers to Cornyn come from? Who funded them, what organization put them forward? I could never figure this out. I have never seen in clarified and I am really curious about it.
They didn’t just come out of thin air. I might want to run in the primary against Cornyn myself but where would I get the $$$ Where would I go?
I wish we had more knowledge as to who put up Stockman.He just seemed like a lot of somebody’s (who?) money totally wasted. Very strange, very obscure.
I see a lot of people say they will do this or that. I'm not willing to go that far. Regardless of what he has done, he isn't an Arlen Specter type of republican. He's not Snow or some other RINO. If he was, my decision would be different. But....what I have to ask myself is this: Is he SO bad that if my vote was the difference between a dem getting the seat...and perhaps the GOP failing to get the senate....is he so bad that I could live with that and would be proud?
The answer is an obvious no. He's no Ted Cruz for sure...and I was hoping this primary season would get his mind right. However, I think a lot of the bravado I am reading here would be different if the general election was going to be close...and every vote counted to keep Texas from turning partially blue and possibly not getting the senate.
Is making a statement worth the possibility of this state being purple...and giving the democrats hope? Not on your life.
Now the people of KY have a different question before them. There you could actually change the leadership and it would send a clear message. But again, is it worth not gaining the senate if it appears close. Got to think about these things.
There’s an alarming level of denial on this thread.
Cornyn won. Big. When your nearest competitor trails by 50 percentage points, it’s a legitimate “crushing.”
We’re all angry, and we’re all scared. The truth is that our fears aren’t rooted in Texas. Texas is doing fine, and would be doing better without interference by the current administration.
We could oust every current Texas congressman and it wouldn’t make a whit of difference.
Texans’ hands are tied, because the real change that we must have in November must come from patriots in other states.
Yesterday’s primary, other than being the first in the nation, meant very little.
In my county, Cornyn got 45%, which would have gotten us a run off.
It almost seems as if Stockman was put in the race by the Cornyn campaign.
The UniParty&153 is pleased.
First of all, there were too many ‘challengers’. Second, lots of democrats voted for Cornyn.