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  1. Phone banked this morning. Got multiple folks that expressed similar sentiments. One guy even asked me who the Republican was after I said Beto was running against Ted Cruz. I know it's not exclusive to Rs but JFC that kind of bond partisanship isn't just annoying, it actively degrades quality of government.

     

    FWIW, overall spread was pretty even. By far largest camp was What?/Who?/Don't care/Don't call me.

     

    Edit: Meant to quote bolverk but fucked up on phone.

     

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  2. 48 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

     

    What a fucking spineless twat our sitting Lt. Gov is. It's like that's a requirement to be in statewide office these days. Fucking embarrassing.

    RE: OP's "moderate Republican comment," this guy comes from the well known breeding ground of liberalism that is partnership at a big four accounting firm and was a Republican until five years ago or something. Dan Goeb's opponent won 25 percent of the vote in the GOP primary and immediately endorsed Collier afterwards. His numbers lagged far behind Abbott's and even Cruz's. There are obviously a lot of R's that feel the same way are ready to see him take his bullshit back to the radio. I hope they turn out. If they do, and Collier picks up votes from the Beto crowd, he too could actually pull it off despite a far lower profile than the Senate contest.

    Just goes to show how the state GOP has gone off the deep end. I don't think it was ever truly reflective of the state's population, but with the current climate getting more folks off the sidelines, it is finally manifesting itself with close races.

  3. 1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

     

    This election is a pass/fail IQ test for the electorate of this state. That simple.

    Also, in terms of swaying the poll, polls tend to lean more Republican as you progress from all adults, to registered voters, and again from registered to likely voters. Obviously every contest has different dynamics but I doubt it would be significantly more pro Beto if it was likely voters. That poll also under-sampled Republicans as a proportion of the electorate, but that's less concerning given that it is really doubtful Cruz hits 45 percent of independents or 40 percent of Latino voters. Overall a four percent gap with a 3.8 percent MOE before recent events definitely solidifies that the goal posts have been moved. The last few polls are 2, 5, 6 and 4. Cruz isn't going to pick up a whole lot of undecideds. If he continues to get his name out there and the GOTV ground game is on point, he can seriously win. I still don't think he will, but just the fact that we are here saying that in August is crazy so who knows.

  4. I think that this will help with name recognition and donations. I’m not sure it helps him get more votes. This issue is a loser in Texas even though I completely agree with Beto. 
    I think the poster that mentioned earlier how the people who get really fired up about the kneeling were already going to be turning out for Cruz because ® is correct. On that flip side, it will help him make a connection with the sizable black communities in Houston and Dallas and will really help with name recognition and exposure with younger voters see this go viral online.

    I just don't think it is going to motivate a whole lot of Cruz voters that weren't already gonna be there, but provides an opportunity to make big gains. Helps more than hurts overall.

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  5. 11 days from kick - training camp is over, the two-deep is set, and game prep has begun. It is time to call your shot.

    I'm going 7-5. Honestly, it's hard to even justify, because this team should be better than that, but you'd be pretty damn accurate over the past five years or so by taking a couple games off of whatever the prevailing opinion of the fanbase is.

    @MD - W. Despite the turmoil, Maryland is not without talent and they will obviously believe damn well they can win despite the big spread. Tighter than expected, fans get a bit riled up.

    Tulsa - W. Not a bad team for a G5 cupcake - competitive first half, Texas pulls away in the third, get a look at the youngsters in the 4th.

    USC - L. Tossup to me but I need to find five losses. Team will be competitive but not quite ready for the big time. Sounds a little too familiar...

    TCU - L. Four straight losses by a total of 153-33, Texas scoring no more than 10 points during that stretch. TCU won the game on cruise control last year. I'm gonna need to see a W to believe it at this point.

    @KSU - L. The last time Texas won in Manhattan I was 10 years old. I am 26. Should win on paper to be honest, but same as above, I'm gonna need to see it to believe it. Definitely not picking it.

    OU - W. OU sucks. 3-3 isn't what anyone hoped for, but everyone loves winning this game.

    Baylor - W. Also sucks, feels like a bit of momentum is being built.

    @OSU - L. Another toss up that I am using to get to five. Could see us get caught flat out of the bye after starting to feel good about ourselves and overlooking an OSU team that is perceived to have taken a significant step back.

    WVU - L. WVU comes in 8-0 and Grier makes up for last year by making a statement on the road. 4-5, bowl looking iffy.

    @Tech - W. Losing coach going to feel some extraordinary heat. Fortunately, as scary as Lubbock is to some teams, Tech has done their damage in Austin recently.

    ISU - W. They are well coached, but Texas has superior talent and depth towards the end of a long season.

    @KU - W. Might suck to play Kansas as an also ran on Thanksgiving weekend, but at least we can enjoy the first trip to Lawrence since 2014 since the 2016 game was weirdly cancelled at the last minute and never played.

    Win the bowl against a middle of the road P5 that can't match the talent and athleticism, much like the Texas bowl last year. Another offseason believing next year is "the" year...

    Hope I'm wrong on each of the L's.

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  6. A group called Empower Texans challenged the voter registration of 4000 Houston voters so now those voters have to actively confirm their voting information or their voter registration is cancelled.  This group also claims that 30% of the 14.1M Texas voters are suspected fradulent voters.
    https://www.houstonpress.com/news/third-ward-voter-rights-under-challenge-after-republican-initiative-10775764
    I don't understand how a person or group can issue a challenge and then the person being challenged has to confirm their right to vote.  I would think the challenger has to actively prove the person doesn't have a right to vote or that they live somewhere else.
    That is absolute horseshit.

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  7. Since our fanbase gets more excited for non conf games than the annual conf matchups (save OU), why not just go independent when the big 12 contract is up?
    People will get plenty excited for B12 matchups when it's not a foregone conclusion that we are going to lose to the upper half of the conference...

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  8. That should be what we are looking for. Schedule Florida, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Notre Dame, UCLA, etc. Try to avoid, Alabama and Georgia. They cheat to be elite and we would have a decent chance of losing and screwing up our season. Also, avoid the lower ranked schools that have zero cache yet are good enough to upset us: Utah, Michigan State (I'm mixed on them), Stanford, Georgia Tech (I'm mixed on them also), Louisville, North Carolina etc.
    Lol fuck that. For one, it's flawed logic - Texas fans should know better than anyone that ten years can change a lot. Two, that's some weak ass SEC shit. We can't hide and be considered an elite program in the B12, nor should we try to because it's soft. Three, there's value in these matchups for fan experience and excitement, even if we take some Ls (which we will).

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  9. One of the weirdest things about Trump supporters in Texas is there are plenty of otherwise sane, successful people that know, as a rule, when you find yourself in agreement with aggy you probably fucked up somewhere. Yet they keep chuggin the orange kool aid. Mind blowing.

     

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  10. Looking back at the article, it sounds like Beto's lack of ground game in Del Rio could be a transactional failure-- he's road trip buddies with the R dude, hasn't endorsed the D lady... what, she's supposed to rally the troops for him?
    It's not really a new problem either. Sema Hernandez won a good chunk of South Texas, about 35 percent of the votes, in the Democratic primary. Now, the people that bothered to go vote for a candidate they surely knew was gonna lose are probably invested enough to go vote for Beto in November, but it speaks to the fact that he is lagging down there for some resin.

    To win, he has to fight to make serious in roads in the suburbs and secondary/tertiary metro areas (probably at least 40 percent across the board), run up the score in the big four plus EP, and get huge turnout on the border. It's not an "or" thing, it's all of them. He is doing better at step one than I thought he could, and step two isn't really hard in this political climate. It looks to me like the latter is the biggest issue right now. I'm not sure it will be solved in the next two months when it's been a consistent issue. Hope it will though.

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  11. Lean left but not a registered or lock-step Democrat. Respect her for her unquestionable effectiveness as a speaker and party leader. Agree that she can come off as arrogant/out of touch "coastal elite," even thought hat is blown out of proportion. Disagree with the assessment that perception doesn't matter though - in a consensus-building role it absolutely does.

    That said, Republicans despise her for her effectiveness and that is amplified because she is a woman - Rs being hostile towards powerful women is not particularly new and is very dumb. For that reason I wouldn't mind having her stick around. Perception matters, but perception based in outdated prejudice doesn't need to be accommodated. That said, as someone who will actually have to deal with the problems the boomers have created, I will never be sad to see them cede power to a younger generation. So in the end I am pretty ambivalent on the idea of her as speaker, which is where I think a lot of independent voters are.

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  12. 12 hours ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I do like what little I know about Ted Cruz. Not sure how that makes one a cuck. I just find the generalized stereotype of Beto fans (what I’ve seen here at least, manlet incel looking guys with alt-country tastes and middle aged women with crushes on a good looking peer/contemporary) to be funny and I’m curious how real the wave is...and that it would be funny if he got smashed, however unlikely.

    God damn you are so tough and alpha I wish I could be like you

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  13. It's crazy expensive right now, first time it's sold out in a few years at least. Definitely first time this early. At the very least, it;'ll be cheaper closer to the game as folks who have to unload on short notice sell closer to face. If/when one of the two purple bains of our existence beat us, prices will go down. Especially if it's another frustrating KSU loss the week immediately before. I'd wait. 

  14. 8 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history.

    Warren’s proposal is dishonestly called the “Accountable Capitalism Act.” Accountable to whom? you might ask. That’s a reasonable question. The answer is — as it always is — accountable to politicians, who desire to put the assets and productivity of private businesses under political discipline for their own selfish ends. It is remarkable that people who are most keenly attuned to the self-interest of CEOs and shareholders and the ways in which that self-interest influences their decisions apparently believe that members of the House, senators, presidents, regulators, Cabinet secretaries, and agency chiefs somehow are liberated from self-interest when they take office through some kind of miracle of transcendence.

    Under Senator Warren’s proposal, no business with more than $1 billion in revenue would be permitted to legally operate without permission from the federal government. The federal government would then dictate to these businesses the composition of their boards, the details of internal corporate governance, compensation practices, personnel policies, and much more. Naturally, their political activities would be restricted, too. Senator Warren’s proposal entails the wholesale expropriation of private enterprise in the United States, and nothing less. It is unconstitutional, unethical, immoral, irresponsible, and — not to put too fine a point on it — utterly bonkers.

    It is also cynical. Senator Warren is many things: a crass opportunist, intellectually bankrupt, personally vapid, a peddler of witless self-help books, etc. But she is not stupid. She knows that this is a go-nowhere proposition, that she will be spared by the Republican legislative majority from the ignominy that would ensue from the wholehearted pursuit of this daft program. It is in reality only a means of staking out for purely strategic reasons the most radical corner for her 2020 run at the Democratic presidential nomination. The Democratic party in 2018, like the Republican primary electorate in 2016, is out for blood and desirous of confrontation. So Senator Warren is running this red flag up the flagpole to see who salutes.

    To propose such a thing for sincere reasons would be ghastly stupidity. To propose this program for narrowly self-serving political reasons is the sort of thing that would end a political career in a sane and self-respecting state, which Massachusetts plainly is not and has not been for some time.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/elizabeth-warren-plan-nationalize-everything-woos-hard-left/

    Yeah, because Germany and Denmark, which operate under similar (more strict in Germany's case) frameworks when it comes to corporate law, are such anti-business communist hellholes.

  15. 3 hours ago, Message Board User said:

    Anyone who says they can get through the first 30 seconds of this video without laughing is a baldfaced liar.

     

    Beto needs to plaster this video all over the airwaves. No commentary or anything. Just pony up for six minutes of ad time during Cowboys, Texans, and B12 games (not aggy they are a lost cause) for weeks leading up to November. He will win by double digits.

  16. I was in Spain with my girlfriend in May. Madrid stuck me as a place one could have a really interesting time on a solo trip. For a city so big an grand it has a laid back vibe - plenty of day trips/overnight excursions to mix things up on a longer stay. 

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