TX-SEN: True to Form

[Brittain33]

https://twitter.com/EmersonPolling/status/1034062978033897472

What a letdown. Even for Emerson.

[Brittain33]

Who remembers back in 2010 when Republicans were pretending that they could win CA-GOV and CA-SEN?

How did that work out for them?

McCain did worse than Goldwater for CA, meanwhile Hillary gave the best record since 1996 for TX. There's a bit of a difference.

I would agree that TX-SEN 2018 will be closer than CA-GOV and CA-SEN 2010, but that doesn't mean O'Rourke is going to win it.

Even light blue states like CO held firm against the 2010 Red Wave.

Texas is at least as red as CO was blue.

I don't think Beto is likely to win either, but CO also had a weak Republican candidate, and Illinois elected a Republican senator that year.

[Brittain33]

Parkland survivor raises thousands to place billboard of Trump's anti-Cruz tweet in Texas

Boy Hogg can be ruthless and I love it

He’s going to trigger a lot of snowflakes with that badass move.

[Brittain33]

Lying Ted meltdown continues

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamesoliphant/status/1038549935489253377

This sounds like something a middle aged white guy would be saying in like 1965.

I'm so confused. Republicans should be competent at this flavor of culture war. For some reason, when they're bringing their campaign managers to Cruz, they're not bringing their best. I could rewrite this attack on California (the land of fruits and nuts,,) better than Cruz.

[Brittain33]

Lying Ted meltdown continues

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamesoliphant/status/1038549935489253377

This sounds like something a middle aged white guy would be saying in like 1965.

I'm so confused. Republicans should be competent at this flavor of culture war. For some reason, when they're bringing their campaign managers to Cruz, they're not bringing their best. I could rewrite this attack on California (the land of fruits and nuts,,) better than Cruz.

This is apparently a new standard-issue GOP attack line.  They're using a similar attack on Stacey Abrams here in Georgia: https://politics.myajc.com/blog/politics/new-gop-line-abrams-will-turn-georgia-into-the-next-california/I92oBGDfWRYytm7T4dPw5N/.

Yeah. I can see why "the next California" would be effective. But "dyed hair" - clearly they were going for purple hair etc., but loads of Texans color their hair and no one cares. Silicon, huh? Tofu is the only one which is kind of on track. But I get they can't say "with its ethnic diversity and embrace of gays" which is what they really want to say.

[Brittain33]

It is still so weird to see Fort Bend as a Democratic county.

[Brittain33]

So is anything coming out of that mailers disguised as summons thing?

I’m sure Ken Paxton will get right on that any day now.

[Brittain33]

O’Rourke and Lyin’ Ted debate tonight for the first time at 6 pm Central Time.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/21/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-debate-watch-texas-senate/

Can't wait!

A Friday night in Texas in fall? LOL.

[Brittain33]

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Unfair. This new poster has been nothing but quality since he joined.

[Brittain33]

I think I did read somewhere that the name was used when he was a child.  But he disgarded it when he went to fancy boarding schools out east.  During his really privilleged portion of his life he did not go by Beto.   How do you know when he thought about running for office?. So what is wrong about his Irish heritage.  It was too high class for El Paso.  

Just wondering, did you vote for that down-home authentic Texan George Dubya Bush?

[Brittain33]

How do Beto & Cruz compare regarding their social media strategies... esp Facebook?  (not necessarily who has the most there... but how effective are each of the campaigns efforts)

Cruz is going to update his MySpace page this weekend once he finds the right MIDI file.

[Brittain33]

https://twitter.com/toddgillman/status/1054507358502707201

Trump's 75 to 100k rally actually had significantly less than 18k people in attendance.

Womp womp

Don't worry, he'll point out how there were 57k to 82k watching outside on giant screens because they couldn't get inside the arena.

[Brittain33]

To be satisfied, I'm hoping for the final result to be something like Cruz+11. We need to show improvement from Trump's 2016 performance.

Again: did you forget that a few weeks ago, you were pretending to be a liberal who wanted Dems to vote Republican in order to move the Democrats to the left?

[Brittain33]

To be satisfied, I'm hoping for the final result to be something like Cruz+11. We need to show improvement from Trump's 2016 performance.

Again: did you forget that a few weeks ago, you were pretending to be a liberal who wanted Dems to vote Republican in order to move the Democrats to the left?

It must be a different handler operating this account.

The name gets me every time I see it. Signed, Northern Educated Homosexual

[Brittain33]

Charles Baker surely has his race "in the bag." I hope to see Pocahontas Warren defeated! My homosexual friend is also voting against Warren, despite being complete homosexual.

[Brittain33]

In the likely event he loses narrowly, I hope Beto turns around and runs for President ASAP. We need someone magical to defeat Trump and I don't think any of the senators making a move has what it takes.

[Brittain33]

I like Beto, he’s a good man. But this race was winnable with the right person with the right campaign, I agree with the GOP on that. But Beto and his campaign are not the chosen ones. He’s run as an ultra liberal, and as such, he will pay the price for it tomorrow.

We've seen that most moderates in the South lost because they failed to excite the base. Beto has run on positions supported by a majority of the American people or Texans. All this name calling and slamming is a GOP game because they' ve nothing to run on. Just because DINOs work in WV, that doesn't mean it works in TX as well.

Doug Jones ran a moderate campaign and won against Roy Moore. Archie Parnell ran a moderate campaign in 2017 and nearly beat Ralph Norman. Phil Bredesen has run a moderate campaign and is competitive against Blackburn.

Doug Jones definitely did not run a moderate campaign by this definition of "moderate"—he ran as pro-choice and explicitly allied with the African-American base, and walked the walk by voting no on Kavanaugh. A moderate campaign is like Michelle Nunn or, yes, Bredesen where you triangulate and run as a moderate Republican in the Democratic party.