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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 06:48 AM Mar 2018

Reminder: It's VOTING TUESDAY and the PRIMARIES are on!

Voters in a number of states will choose their primary candidates today, and of course who will fill offices in special elections. Too many seats to list. Check your states.

The nation's eyes are on Texas especially, where early voting is twice what it was 4 years ago in the last midterm primaries and Democrats are turning out.




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Reminder: It's VOTING TUESDAY and the PRIMARIES are on! (Original Post) Hortensis Mar 2018 OP
The Dem congressman O'Rourke has raised more money than Cruz. BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #1
Cruz's first race since pubs booed him at 2016's national Hortensis Mar 2018 #3
Cruz is alerting his GOP pals to take the Fem "blue wave" BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #7
Hope so, Bigman! He's SUCH an amoral creep. Hortensis Mar 2018 #8
Politico: "5 things to watch in the first primary of 2018" Hortensis Mar 2018 #2
Texas is trending blue. ananda Mar 2018 #4
Anything to report yet? One seat has 18 Repug candidates! Hortensis Mar 2018 #5
Bump for REMINDER TO VOTE for those heading home! Hortensis Mar 2018 #6

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
1. The Dem congressman O'Rourke has raised more money than Cruz.
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 07:45 AM
Mar 2018

He has been pounding the pavement grassroots style. The former Punk Rock musician gets the votes, even in Texas.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Cruz's first race since pubs booed him at 2016's national
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:45 AM
Mar 2018

convention.

Politico: It would also take a massive wave for Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who should become the Democratic nominee for Senate on Tuesday night, to threaten Cruz in the Senate race.

But Tuesday’s GOP primary will indicate whether Cruz has issues with Republican voters at the poles of the party spectrum: those who were once furious with his failure to endorse Trump in 2016, and moderates turned off by his strident conservative policies and tactics.

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
7. Cruz is alerting his GOP pals to take the Fem "blue wave"
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 06:07 PM
Mar 2018

Last edited Tue Mar 6, 2018, 07:04 PM - Edit history (2)

seriously. He is nervous and should be.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Hope so, Bigman! He's SUCH an amoral creep.
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 07:02 PM
Mar 2018

I think our people need to campaign on a return to decency, responsibility, honor, cooperation, end to corruption in politics, and service to the people. I was really inspired by the way a Democrat got Alabamans to elect him their senator. The Anointed One is really as bad in his different way as Moore.

And if it's given additional energy by women who believe in decency and good schools, Cruz's extremely nervous 8 months on his knees praying will hopefully be wasted.

ananda

(28,858 posts)
4. Texas is trending blue.
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 09:06 AM
Mar 2018

An article I read pointed out that the Reeps have maxed
out in rural areas and suburbans who were leaning Reep
are now leaning Dem.

If enough people actually get out and vote, I think we
could see some interesting results.

I voted early by paper ballot. I wish everybody here
could vote paper.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Anything to report yet? One seat has 18 Repug candidates!
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 12:11 PM
Mar 2018

It's in the San Antonion/Austin area:

There are 18 Republicans trying to run for a seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Lamar Smith (R).

And most of them, reports The Washington Post’s Mike DeBonis, are taking the strategy of: There’s no such thing as being too close to Trump. “Make America Like Texas” slogans, TV ads of candidates literally standing in swamps promising to drain them — this race has it all, except for a clear front-runner.

Watch for whether a Ted Cruz-backed candidate wins. Chip Roy, a former Cruz aide, benefits from his Washington ties, with super PACs running ads in which Cruz calls Roy the “real conservative.”

Early turnout in Texas is reportedly showing a big surge of Democrats in what is still a red state.
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