Posted on 11/18/2018 4:37:25 PM PST by C19fan
For a quarter-century, Republicans have dominated Texas politics so much thaFor a quarter-century, Republicans have dominated Texas politics so much that the Democratic minority has often been an afterthought. The big political battles in Austin have been fought between conservative and centrist factions within the GOP, as Democrats watch from the sidelines. But Democratic gains in this year’s midterm elections on the federal, state and county level show the prospect that Texas will become a swing state — a promise Democrats have made for years — is slowly coming to fruition.t the Democratic minority has often been an afterthought. The big political battles in Austin have been fought between conservative and centrist factions within the GOP, as Democrats watch from the sidelines. But Democratic gains in this year’s midterm elections on the federal, state and county level show the prospect that Texas will become a swing state — a promise Democrats have made for years — is slowly coming to fruition.
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ignore the Cruz race. That was unique. The other races in the state were not even close.
Cruz pissed off a LOT of conservative Trump voters, and his race being sort of close is absolutely no indication that Texas is trending more liberal.
Really? I have to see a wave election. TX isn’t turning Blue yet.
It’s the caravans. Texas is a prize, and the left wants it hook or crook.
Cruz was arrogant, standoffish and took Texans for granted.
That’s why he nearly lost to Beto. People just didn’t take to him.
Thank God straight ticket voting is no longer possible. In Bexar County We lost a load of excellent Republican judges this round. The benches are full of Democrat women.
The biggest mistake conservatives made was in thinking that we could coexist with progressives. They have been raised like Palestinian children- they have been taught to hate us and work to destroy us while we have been teaching our children to respect their opinions.
I believe ya Texan Freeper. I read articles since 2006 that TX “turned” (past tense) Blue, yet nothing happened. Same idiots who wrote the 1976 article in Newsweek that California will be underwater in 1999...
Don’t you wish all NYers were like me?
I’d rather have a ####ing bullet put through my head than have to move to a southern state :)
Sorry guys, sounds real wholesome and homey, but I like Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera House and Rockefeller Plaza and all of the museums and the 24/7 never sleeps kind of thing going.
Get back to me when I’m 60 :)
We can't afford to have Texas turn blue.
Nope, illegal aliens voting has done that.
As we see on this thread, Cruz bashers on the ‘right’ feel comfortable trashing Ted Cruz.
That is a very important part of the problem that is easily solvable.
Stop treating Cruz like trash.
He won both the debates by such lopsided margins that Beto begged off of the other four debates he promised.
Then he took one hour of free CNN advertising to further amplify his message.
Cruz is much more conservative than John Cornyn who will run in 2020.
If ‘conservatives’ vote for conservatives then we will be fine. Beto spent a record 80 million dollars to win. He lost.
Cornyn is a stiff. Beto will take him on. The WH is a bridge too far. Perhaps 2024.
I wish that was true. Democrats flipped 12 seats in the Texas House, that's a bad sign. Also lost two House seats, Culberson lost, and Sessions lost.
There were a lot of races that were extremely tight that shouldn't be. John Carter won the 31st by 20 points two years ago, and 3 this year. This wasn't all about Cruz, though Beto had some coattails, even in losing.
They can thank George Bush for that. He relocated most of New Orleans to Houston after Katrina
Thanks for the much needed sanity post.
Cruz isn’t the problem.
Changing demographics and voter manipulation/fraud is the problem.
The other thing that is becoming fairly evident is that the big daddy blue states like California, New York, Connecticut, and Illinois are facing very serious financial and economic difficulties not dissimilar to what happened in the Soviet Union and East Bloc. All of those resources and money being needed to prop up the big paternalistic bureaucracies and fat cat entitlements. And there isn’t likely going to be some big magic credit card pulled out to save those states when the collapsing point really is reached (as bailouts would likely have strict conditions). Given that, one wonders how that would have an effect on the Democrat brand?
Seems like the people that move here are conservatives looking for a conservative state, or the idea of Texas. They had some poll where more native Texans went Beto while non-native went Cruz. I knew so many families who moved here specifically from Michigan in the 80s and 90s because of the auto industry’s failing. It’s interesting. Also maybe people living in urban centers gradually become more liberal no matter where they are originally from, I don’t know how that works
You mean like how California cleaned up its house? Or Arizona...or Nevada...or Colorado...or Florida...or Georgia?
Looks to me like the whole neighborhood needs a spring cleaning.
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