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MidTexHorn

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  1. That was a total guess on my part, no evidence at all for it. I said it because Oak Hill reminds me of the middle class/lower middle class neighborhoods in Midland where I see the most Cruz signs so just extrapolated from there. That said, there are way fewer Cruz signs in Oak Hill than in the similar neighborhoods in Midland. Still a surprising number of Beto signs out here, most I've ever seen for a Democrat by far.
  2. Fair enough. Your experience in Oak Hill was definitely not representative, although I do suspect it’s a bit more Trump friendly than other parts of town.
  3. I believe you went to some sort of house party or bible study in Oak Hill and were in a group of evangelical Christians or MLMers ( they’re pretty interchangeable in my experience) who just happened to be big Trump fans and you extrapolated that self selected group as being representative of all of Oak Hill.
  4. Join the club. It’s taking all of my willpower not to post it. Trying to rise above.
  5. No idea what part of Oak Hill you were in, but when I visited my in-laws two weeks ago in Oak Hill there were Beto signs about every third house and they outnumbered Cruz signs easily 20-1. It was overwhelming. In fact, it was almost enough to make me feel bad for my Trump/Cruz loving father in law to be so surrounded by such ridiculous numbers of libruls.
  6. Dismisses the Fox News element way too readily, and rather hyperbolic, but a lot of truth in that article.
  7. Any hope that Rs wouldn't turn out was dashed by the Kavanaugh hearings. Sent people on both sides into fits of rage and IMO helped spur the huge early voting. Everyone wanted to vote ASAP as a big fuck you to the other side.
  8. I have a few Facebook acquaintances who seem quite excited to vote for Cruz. It’s very much a “fuck you liberals” type vibe that I’m getting from them, rather than something personal about Cruz.
  9. Based on my conversations with them, and their disgust expressed about current Republican behaviors, I actually think they'll pull the D lever. The fact that these conversations are even happening is fairly revolutionary IMO.
  10. I've already talked about my wife on this thread. I will mention that there are at least 3, and likely as many as 5-6 lawyers in my lily white Midland law firm who appear to be Beto supporters. I strongly suspect that there's never been more than 1 or 2 Democratic voters in our ranks at any time in the past. Very anecdotal, but throw that in with my apolitical Republicanish wife voting Beto and my Republican sister who never votes in midterms and is voting for Beto and there is certainly an interesting phenomenon among the people who I know. Of course, my parents and in-laws are all in for Trump/Cruz, although their support for Republicans is nothing new even if they are more fervent than ever now.
  11. Beto supporter. 3 guns - Shotgun and small revolver in house for protection, 12 gauge for the occasional bird hunt/clay shoot. Not even slightly skeered that Beto will take my guns.
  12. Anyone seen this new poll that the Beto campaign is talking about. Has him within 3.6%. *edit - never mind, see above*
  13. So is Beto per my former HS classmate who is a cop. I respectfully disagree, but talking points.
  14. I see a million Ted Cruz TV ads for every handful of Beto ads. Irritating and not in line with the fundraising numbers. I guess they’re just spending their money completely differently. Hope not works for Beto.
  15. Me too, but it was a lot easier than I thought. The last two years made it real real easy.
  16. My previously apolitical wife sounds similar to your wife, although to my knowledge she has no such group of friends. It's just kinda weirdly awesome that every time she sees a Democratic ad on TV she gets this weird look in her eye and says kinda quitely "just you wait." She was going to vote for Beto in this election and probably for other Dems for the first time in her life, but the Kavanaugh hearings absolutely set something off in her like I've never seen. She now HAAAATES Republicans.
  17. Yeah, I had no idea who had done what until I read the actual article. Horrible headline writing there.
  18. Fuck the Pete Olson guy. I'm embarrassed to live in the same state as him.
  19. I think he's suggesting that not even making the slightest effort to appeal to centrists, independents or god forbid the other side, may not be a winning formula long term when your base is only 40% of the voters.
  20. It's not an inherently racist policy proposal, it's racist in its application and the reason it's being proposed by Trump. Nothing wrong with having rational limits and rules for immigration. But when it's blatantly obvious that Trump is using this issue as a distraction and a dog whistle to the racists who support him, then it's pretty clear what's happening here.
  21. 61, caucasian, male What do I win?
  22. Assuming that this is more than just a political stunt in an attempt to rile up the base for the midterms, which I know is likely a stupid assumption since everything with Trump is about riling up the base, is there even a hint of a legal basis for an executive order to be able to undo or violate the Constitution? I mean, I only got an A- in my first year Con Law class, and I did like to skip class a lot, but I just don't remember ever hearing that you could just rewrite the constitution by executive order. Seems like a few presidents would have tried that before if it was legit,no?
  23. So Fox News has lost Drudge? They may have gone just a bit too far this time!!! Yeah right.
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