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Liza Hameline's avatar

I love this article just because seeing Texas turn Blue over and over, makes me happy.😃 We are working so hard without any help nationally and it is a huge state. But it is so much closer than anyone can imagine. If you could see the giant billboards that rural democrats are putting out, the signs everywhere. And you really only need to look at the top of the ticket.

No not at Colin Allred—At Trump and Cruz.

Want to know what really drives turnout? Those two. And what happens when there is a major turnout? Democrats win.

Having Cruz run during a presidential year means he is toast. In 2012, he trailed Romney by 120,000 votes. Then he barely got reelected with 200,00 votes in 2018.

Since then he fled to Cancun when the rest of the state was freezing, has said being pregnant isn’t a dangerous condition when the maternal mortality rates just came out after Cruz supported the reverse of Roe and cheered on the state to ban abortion with no exception and women are actually dying…oh and he hid in the closet on January 6 when a mob stormed the capitol after he contested the results of Arizona’s election. All while Colin Allred was fighting for veterans of this state and comprehensive border politics and the all the bills that have brought huge booms for the Texas economy, AND held the door so his colleagues could safely evacuate the building on January 6… no one in Texas likes Ted Cruz and that is why we will stun the nation on Nov. 5 and give 40 electoral votes to KAMALA HARRIS.

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Color Me Skeptical's avatar

LC! Great to read you!

My sense is that the energy is with Harris this cycle.

Sure, it could be close. And as you say, that is what the professional pundits want.

But it could also be a blowout.

And I think that possibility is being missed by conventional wisdom.

All of which reminds me of a quote from the late, great Herb Kelleher, on “conventional wisdom.” He said, “if it’s wisdom, it ain’t conventional. And if it’s conventional, it ain’t wisdom.”

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