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MidTexHorn

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  1. 1 hour ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Why do you think that is? One of the same guys told me the head of the Silver Spurs and Bevo used to live up the street from them in that area, so maybe it's just attractive to more conservative types in a general way?

    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. 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. 

  3. 6 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    God, y’all don’t know how badly I want to post that essay on Facebook to my own Facebook and tag my father.

    It describes him so accurately that I was half expecting a screenshot of his profile as an example.

    He’s been a Fox Newser for years but once he joined Facebook was when it got unbearable.

    I hate it all so much.

    Join the club. It’s taking all of my willpower not to post it. Trying to rise above. 

  4. 19 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Was hanging out with a bunch of Cruz voters today in Austin and they were telling me how uninformed and annoying the GOTV volunteers they've encountered are (which is probably just their bias showing). Many of them troll/keep texting them and leading them on for hours or full days for fun it sounds like.

    Anyways, is Oak Hill a Cruz bastion? Saw more Cruz signs than Beto only in that 'hood. Saw Beto literally everywhere else en masse.

    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. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I'm still stunned at the high R turnout.  Full on tribal warfare.

    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.

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  6. 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. 

  7. 1 minute ago, NameWithHeld said:

    But in the quiet and lonely confines of the voting booth will they pull the “D” lever for Beto or the straight ticket “R” lever.   Most Rs in Texas probably will pull the straight “R” lever.  

     

    Hard Fact or soft reality. 

    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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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. 

  11. 4 minutes ago, G650 said:

     

    I mean, to be honest, I feel really weird about this election myself. Iv'e never voted for all Democrats before in my life. This is going to be a surreal experience.

    Me too, but it was a lot easier than I thought. The last two years made it real real easy.

  12. 5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    The Comstock quote lines up with my anecdotal data. My wife is a college educated suburban woman who has been apolitical for her entire adult life. She's now in a message group with about a half-dozen area friends who have been similarly apolitical but have discussed their various reasons to start voting Democrat this year and have agreed to all do so.

    I think it's likely maybe 3 of them even show up to vote but we'll see. And I was sworn to secrecy after my wife left the conversation up on the computer because apparently a couple of the women don't want their husbands to have any clue about the discussions even happening. I thought that was crazy but didn't take much to convince me to stay quiet. I don't talk about politics or religion with anyone around here as most of them would understand classical liberalism even less than voting Democrat.

    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.

  13. 4 minutes ago, texastough said:

    Is he suggesting this might backfire by helping the D GOTV efforts, or that eventually the R base gets fatigued by it, or what?

    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.

  14. 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.

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