TX-SEN: True to Form

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Go, go, Beto, O.!

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Yeah, I could see O'Rourke hold Cruz to low single digits and lay the groundwork for future Democratic races in this state, but it's really hard to see him winning.

He's probably the strongest Democratic challenger fwiw.

Of the people who will actually run, yes.

The Castro brothers are massively overrated. The best Democratic challenger here is either O'Rourke or someone non-obvious from outside politics.

Joaquin seems underrated, if anything.

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He seems to be off to a great start.

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Per his Facebook, O'Rourke favors single-payer.

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If I were running O'Rourke's campaign, I'd hit Cruz hard about being so slavishly loyal to Trump after Trump humiliated him and insulted his wife during the campaign. That's not Family Values and it's not Texas Values.

If I were running O'Rourke's campaign, I would just give up. Don't believe any out of state commies. I was born and raised in Texas, and have lived here my entire life. And I am here to say that Texas will start to become competitive around ten years from now, and maybe would tilt D twenty years from now. But now is too early. Cruz will win most probably with a margin in the lower to mid 10s. This race is not competitive, look elsewhere for now.

If you want Texas to become competitive sometime down the road, giving up isn't the way to do it.  Opposition parties don't just magically start winning elections.  Those kinds of things need to be built up over time, and part of that building is by getting people more excited about voting in elections even if they lose in the end.  It's also about getting people to consider your party.  If get a voter to even consider your party when they wouldn't have in the past, that's a win.  They might make a different decision next time.  If you can make the election closer, that gives other people a reason to jump in for the next election too and so on and so on.  Yeah, there are states and districts where it's incredibly hard for the opposition to win, but it's not just because of demographics and gerrymandering.  It's also because, a lot of times, the opposition doesn't really try that hard.

Excellent post.

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I'll look past the fact that he's a New Democrat. He's probably the best hope of the Democrats, plus his position on campaign finance reform is superb. Endorsed.

Since when has O'Rourke been a New Democrat?

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Cruz will win by double digits; Atlas will be sad yet again.

He couldn't win double digits against an unfunded nobody. There's no way he wins by more than 15 points. With an incumbent republican in the white house it should be less than that.

He won by 16 points the first time around.

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I'll look past the fact that he's a New Democrat. He's probably the best hope of the Democrats, plus his position on campaign finance reform is superb. Endorsed.

His opponent is Lyin' Ted. Cory Booker is a 1000 times better candidate than Lyin' Ted & so is the corrupt Menendez or the out of touch Feinstein.

This is Lyin' Ted & for the long term, this is even more important that winning the House in 2018 (Although Lyin' Ted will surely win!)

This too, but the "lesser of two evils argument" is not the only argument. O'Roarke is probably one of my favorite New Democrats - he's much more preferrable than someone like HRC.

I'll look past the fact that he's a New Democrat. He's probably the best hope of the Democrats, plus his position on campaign finance reform is superb. Endorsed.

Since when has O'Rourke been a New Democrat?

I don't know, if you go to the New Democrat Coalition page on Wikipedia, his name is on there.

Last I checked, New Democrats didn't refuse Super PAC money.

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He holds super pac money high and he lies! Lyin' Ted!

Give an example of a lie.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/01/fox_news_is_getting_really_good_at_spotting_ted_cruz_s_lies.html

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one of mah coll-eegs over at Texahs said the followin "I don't know. I'm even seeing a lot of Beto signs in the yuppie Highland Park area outside of Dallas. Not sure if that area normally leans left, but I would be shocked if it does."

now this quote got me here thinkin' mah fellow 'merican Cruz is uh bout to get a bigger ass whoopin from Papa Beto than mah paps gave me as a lil lad, and boy was that smart.

i yoused ta think that beta was gonna get his effette twinky butt handed to him by ol lyin ted, but dat dere ol quinnipiac poll gave me second thoughts. looks like teddy might be headed to the woodshed thanks to the (((bushes))) and their clan getting revenge for jeb, plus all dem illegals floodin over the boarder.

i'll be ratin dis one likely d

All Ted Cruz has to do to win back Highland Park is to admit that Trump was right regarding Cruz's father's complicity in the JFK assassination.

All he has to do to win elsewhere in the state is just to say "Brooklyn Beto."

But O'Rourke is not even from Brooklyn.

And? That’s politics.

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Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke apologized for once writing a critical review of a Broadway musical in his college newspaper that said the actresses' "only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks"

Well

Not a great look, but unlikely to move the needle.
If anyone thinks this helps Cruz, I’d remind you that the Senator (or a hapless intern) liked a porn video on his official twitter account, and that did nothing to affect his standing.

You're forgetting about the mindbogglingly huge moral double-standard that Democrats face in America, especially in red states.