If there wasn't massive voter suppression in Houston and Dallas, the state might be competitive. The polling shows both the Presidential and Senate races within the margin of error, but voter suppression will give the GOP a comfortable win.

Then you have intimidation tactics like this:

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-election-raid/

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the cultural ties that keeps Texas red but they still exist. Sigh.

, that

There are no cultural ties. It was Democrat for more than 100 years. Democrats held leads in Congressional delegation thru gerrymandering, and the court tried to continue that out to 2010, but Tom Delay did a mid-decade redistricting that gave Republicans a majority of seats.
Brad Bird tried to do registration drives to give the state back to Democrats, but because of lousy rule by Democrats in other states, particularly California, there have been lots of people coming to Texas who are voting Republican. Ted Cruz actually lost in 2018 among native Texans.

So the women of TX are just convincing themselves they can go to another state for healthcare if desperate. If they vote Republican, I don't care what happens to any one of them.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the cultural ties that keeps Texas red but they still exist. Sigh.

Petroleum industry = Republicans

If your job is in any way tied to the petroleum industry - drilling, servicing, refining, transporting, banking, chemicals, etc. - then you're basically surrounded by Republicans. A huge chunk of the TX economy is dependent on petroleum industry.

I don't understand the cultural ties that keeps Texas red but they still exist. Sigh.

Texas will go blue someday but that day is not yet here. The Republican party does a great job of delaying the inevitable.

Let's go Collin Allred!!!

Allred is a great candidate but PP is right that the Texas Democratic Party is incompetent. I’m giving money to the DSCC but not to him directly.

Unfortunately not. Texas Democrats are a joke. This is a function of just how terrible Cruz is, and at the end of the day, he’ll win comfortably.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the year we finally say good riddance? Aug 538 poll as him just a free percent ahead.

Is this possible this year?

Nope. The Dem is a horrible candidate, running to raise money. The head of TX dem party is totally corrupt. There is no democratic infrastructure. Dems have a better chance of flipping TN.

Is this the year we finally say good riddance? Aug 538 poll as him just a free percent ahead.

Is this possible this year?