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TEXAS SENATE: Will we "Cruz" to Victory or "Todd Aikin" our way to Defeat? (Vanity)
February 18, 2014 | Din Maker

Posted on 02/18/2014 10:14:07 AM PST by Din Maker

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To: Din Maker
"I will probably vote for Stovall, but that’s BULLSHIT!!! Have you researched Reid Reasor or Ken Cope?

So why are you not voting for Reasor or Cope in the primaries?

81 posted on 02/18/2014 2:34:37 PM PST by celmak
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To: DoodleDawg

We’re just going to have to disagree. You’re ascribing supernatural abilities to McCaskill. I know you’re a disgruntled Steelman supporter, but there’s no need to rip down a good man because he made a mistake.


82 posted on 02/18/2014 2:35:49 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: All

Any Texas Voters

Have you heard of or observed the turnout at any of the early voting locations?

Give us any input you may have.


83 posted on 02/18/2014 2:37:00 PM PST by deport
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Scary ideologue” ? What ? He was a dedicated Conservative with an excellent record, and MANY Conservatives were supportive of his run and nomination. I’m one of them.


84 posted on 02/18/2014 2:38:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: deport; Arrowhead1952

Of the three I observed earlier in a recon run in NW Austin (Cedar Park), the CP Library was covered in at least a hundred campaign signs, with cars going in and out, and the grocery store Randalls three miles away had half the machines being voted on. There were two Stovall signs at Randalls, and no Stockman signs anywhere.

Tomorrow I will be an another early voting location - work - all day and will report.


85 posted on 02/18/2014 2:43:55 PM PST by txhurl
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To: fieldmarshaldj
“Scary ideologue” ? What ? He was a dedicated Conservative with an excellent record, and MANY Conservatives were supportive of his run and nomination. I’m one of them.

My apologies. I had intended to put "Scare Quotes" around that term, but I see that I forgot to do so.

Beyond that, the left regards a lot of people as "Scary Ideologues" that I find to be perfectly reasonable and normal.

The biggest problem with Todd Akin is that he didn't realize that "reporters" are nothing but propaganda agents for the left, and they are always looking to find something which they can use to portray their political opponents as extreme.

Every Republican candidate should understand that the Reporters may smile to your face and shake your hand, but deep in their heart they hate you, they want to destroy you, and they will stab you in the chest if you give them half a chance.

Akin should have realized instantly that the question was a deliberate attempt to get him to say something which they could use to paint him as an extremist.

86 posted on 02/18/2014 2:48:47 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp

I’ve said before that many Conservative GOP candidates for office ought to go to candidate school (or that our side should set one up) in order to train candidates how to deal with loaded questions and how to deflect them (and remind them, as you said, that the media is not their friend — they’re merely the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party).


87 posted on 02/18/2014 2:53:53 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: txhurl

They normally are covered by signs as they consolidate into just a few locations.
It will be interesting to see the numbers when they are published on the SOS website.


88 posted on 02/18/2014 2:58:24 PM PST by deport
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To: deport

My site even writes the # of votes cast the previous day on a chart on the wall for the two weeks.

I think I’ll ask tomorrow and throughout the EV cycle as to daily turnout ups or downs.

What’s aggravating me is what if football recruiting were reversed, the teams asking the fans to go out and vote on recruits, giving absolutely no hints as to who they wish were recruited? That might be a bad analogy but I personally believe endorsements *count*. We’re trying to add to the TEA team here, and we’d sniff out the remotest hint or wink.

Since we’re all presuming SOMEONE will force Cornyn into runoff, we’re voting for our next Senator blind! Can we get a little help, here?


89 posted on 02/18/2014 3:08:38 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl

Starting either tomorrow or the next day the SOS will post the numbers voting in person
and by mail ballots for the largest 15 counties. It is by total votes and not by party.


90 posted on 02/18/2014 3:31:32 PM PST by deport
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To: Din Maker

It was a very short ad and I didn’t cringe at it - it was no big deal. To each his own about the ad.


91 posted on 02/18/2014 3:36:29 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: deport

My site, Lakeway, is almost entirely red. So it’s a good barometer for changes in turnout.


92 posted on 02/18/2014 3:37:42 PM PST by txhurl
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To: 12th_Monkey; Jane Long
“Why Todd Staples over Dan Patrick?”

I know Todd Staples personally, worked for him in an election and he is steadfast, smart, speaks well, tough as nails, never stops working, and is non amnesty, pro gun and pro horses and pro TEXAS and would kick Hussein Obama in the butt. I heard him dress down an opponent one time, and he verbally fractured that man and told me later he had to do it. I was with him at the Texas capital when he was sworn in as state senator. He continued to win every election for every office he wanted and there was good reason - he is Texas in his bones. You can trust him to do what he says.

He was a state representative, then senator, and was Agriculture commissioner and his degree is in Agriculture, graduated with honors from Texas A&M. Click on the link and click around his website - if guns scare you, don't go there. :o)

http://www.toddstaples.com/meet-todd-staples/

93 posted on 02/18/2014 4:02:09 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Din Maker; bestintxas

>> I’m not voting for Cornyn and you can bite me punk!

Between bestintxas and you, Din Maker nOOb boy, one of you is indeed a punk.

And it’s not bestintxas, so I guess that leaves you, boy.

You’d better lose a couple pounds of snot and attitude, pronto, nOOb.

You’re up to no good the way you’re headed.


94 posted on 02/18/2014 5:53:56 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I wonder if Dwayne is aware this punk is representing him/GOTVing for him?

Do I smell a Roider?


95 posted on 02/18/2014 6:11:36 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl

>> Do I smell a Roider?

After studying the newbie’s posts, I’m picking up that same scent.


96 posted on 02/18/2014 7:35:06 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: txhurl
Tomorrow I will be an another early voting location - work - all day and will report.

I voted early today in the Republican primary. The dim primary table was empty of voters. There were two lines signed on the first page. About three or four pages in the Republican and that was before 10 AM.

97 posted on 02/18/2014 9:20:47 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Din Maker

Lots of interesting political commentary here from folks who can’t spell Todd Akin’s name correctly.

The guy got railroaded by the left-wing media. And naturally the GOP-E wasn’t there to help him. They never are, when the left goes after decent conservatives.


98 posted on 02/18/2014 9:23:19 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Hieronymus

Yup...


99 posted on 02/19/2014 3:26:50 AM PST by ken5050 (This space available cheap...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
We’re just going to have to disagree. You’re ascribing supernatural abilities to McCaskill. I know you’re a disgruntled Steelman supporter...

Yeah, I'm a disgruntled Steelman supporter because thanks to a bone-headed candidate I'm stuck with McCaskill for another term. That would disgruntle anyone.

...but there’s no need to rip down a good man because he made a mistake.

That's like saying there's no need to rip Romney because he made a mistake. Both men took winnable races and pissed them away. If that isn't worthy of ripping then what is?

100 posted on 02/19/2014 3:48:08 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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