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MidTexHorn

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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. 

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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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  9. 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?

  10. I don't know a single liberal that likes Facebook. It is rapidly becoming the home of grandma, crazy Aunt Ethel and all of my old family friends who are busy outing themselves as Trumpkins and vaguely racist.

    I suppose it still serves a purpose from an advertising perspective that can't be totally ignored, but I think it's on a pretty steep downward spiral.

  11. 1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:
    4 hours ago, gmr548 said:
    My mother will be studied by historians as the lone Trump-Beto voter. The weird thing is that she still won't get off the Trump wagon. She just wants Cruz gone. She isn't informed enough to know about the primary infighting in any substantive way, so it isn't a Trump loyalty thing. I have no idea what is driving it but I will take it.

    Your mom wants to have sex with Beto. Just sayin'.

    And there’s nothing wrong with that

  12. I’m an actual Gary Johnson voter who voted that way because I live in Texas and knew my vote didn’t really matter. That said, Trump is a stain upon our country and the sooner he’s gone the better. He is an abomination. 

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