Posted on 10/10/2018 11:47:26 AM PDT by Morgana
DALLAS — After church on a recent Sunday, Emily Mooney smiled as she told her girlfriends about her public act of rebellion. She had slapped a “Beto for Senate’’ sticker on her S.U.V. and driven it to her family’s evangelical church.
But then, across the parking lot, deep in conservative, Bible-belt Texas, she spotted a sign of support: the same exact sticker endorsing Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat who is challenging Senator Ted Cruz.
“I was like, who is it?” she exclaimed. “Who in this church is doing this?”
Listening to Ms. Mooney’s story, the four other evangelical moms standing around a kitchen island began to buzz with excitement. All of them go to similarly conservative churches in Dallas. All are longtime Republican voters, solely because they oppose abortion rights. Only one broke ranks to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. But this November, they have all decided to vote for Mr. O’Rourke, the Democratic upstart who is on the front line of trying to upend politics in deep-red Texas.
In the Senate race, one of the most unexpectedly tight in the nation, any small shift among evangelical voters — long a stable base for Republicans — could be a significant loss for Mr. Cruz, who, like President Trump, has made white evangelicals the bulwark of his support.
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Doubtful.
“Beto O’Rourke May Benefit From a Likely Support Group: NY Times article Highlighting Wishful thinking”
This year’s version of Wendy “Abortion Barbie” Davis. The liberals in NY and California love him, but voters in Texas will not elect him.
The Racist NY Times should wish in one hand and crap in the other. See which one fills up first.
Beta isn’t going to win no matter how much they wish for it. He’s running in Texas - not NY or California.
This appears to be a favorite tactic of the MSM. They find one or two people doing something they approve of, and try to pass it off as a trend.
Hyperventilating anecdotal nonsense.
I know they are desperate. Probably paid these ladies too
NY Slimes? What do they know?
Voting based on physical attraction; not spiritual but carnal
“I was like, who is it?” she exclaimed. “Who in this church is doing this?”
More importantly, what the hell is wrong with them!
Yea sure....
The NYT despises evangelicals with a passion which is hard to describe.
Old tactics in Demcorat poltics started by the Clinton crime machine. Tell supporters to call in to talk shows, or write letters to the editor, and claim to be a “Life long Republican” who suddenly gushing for the current Democrat candidate. Take a look into the background and you find 99% the “Lifelong Republican” is a Democrat stooge lying because they think it gives them credibility.
Being a RAT, he is a baby killer. No Evangelical woman can abide that.
YOU nailed it!!!!!!!!
I love it when the NY Times writes about fly-over America and particularly evangelicals.
Their tone invariably is like an ivory-tower anthropologist studying some recently discovered tribe of pygmies in the Amazon. Let’s use our theories to describe what makes them act so curiously!
Is this the same rag that currently has a live poll running showing betamale trailing by 9?
Don’t they read their own data?
“she told her girlfriends about her public act of rebellion.”
She is so edgy.
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