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Maybe rubber ducks can become Farenthold’s mascot. This is an important victory, nonetheless.

one kid told me that ortiz’s claim that farenhold went to lingerie parties is why he and the under 30 crowd voted for farenhold.

Looking at the map of the district in post #15, I would have probably dismissed it as a safe RAT seat before the election. But that's NOT because of Corpus Christi, but the center of the population on the OTHER end of the district. The southern portion of TX-27 is the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville area, which is overwhemingly RAT, and probably added quite a few "questionable" ballots from illegal immigrants to the mix. Those are the areas JFK used to steal the state from Nixon in '60. The census bureau estimates the two counties down there have a population of over 400,000 people in 2009, so it's a huge chunk of the district's population.

San Patricio County must have voted GOP in absolutely HUGE numbers to outvote the southern portion of the district. CNN's election site confirms my theory, it looks like Farenthold got over 70% in San Patricio.

You can see data like that in my local township in suburban Crook County -- on election night, the Republican candidate for Congress out here (Wardingley, 1st district) and the Republican candidate for state Rep. (Bellar, 1 district) both WON suburban Crook County by decent margins. But they got crushed districtwide because the Chicago portion of those districts routinely gives RATs 90% of the vote and this election was no exception. Republicans would have to get 65%+ in my region of the district to outvote the improvised brain-dead RAT areas on the other end.

Suburban Cook County Election Results