Believe it when i see it.
I have friends that have or currently do live in Austin.
They have told me the cities are very left leaning.
In Illinois, it’s mostly Chicago that keeps this state blue and keeps the red plague from taking over.
It’s surprising how much of a foothold the reds have over Texas with Houston , Dallas, and Austin.
3 big cities.
City people are generally more democratic and left leaning. How are these 3 cities not having more of an impact on political seats in Texas?
The population of the Chicago metro area (excluding the 2 WI and 2 IN counties that get lumped in) accounts for 66% of the population of the state.
The combined population of the Houston, Dallas, and Austin metro areas only account for 58% of the population of the state.
Not only that, most of Chicagoland is blue, but you cannot say the same for Texas cities where most of the outlying suburbs of the metro area are red.
The population of Houston proper, Dallas proper, and Austin proper combined only make up 15% of the population of Texas. But Chicago proper alone makes up over 21% of the population of Illinois. Throw in Aurora and Naperville to make the 3 city comparison a little more fair, and you get almost 26% of the population of IL.
San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the country, (soon to be the sixth) we have surpassed Philadelphia.
But it has only 1/3rd the density of LA. Famously car centric hellscape LA is 3(?!) times as dense as San Antonio.
I think physical proximity is part of what drives people in cities to vote more democratic. Texas Metro areas so so spread out they don’t generate the same voting trends.
The winds of change are blowing. The cities continue to grow and the rural counties populations in West Texas are shrinking, but it will take a very long time for the weight of urbanization to take hold in Texas politics the way it has in Georgia and Virginia.
People in Texas cities wayyyy less likely to vote. The people in the country side voting red show up every single time.
the gerrymandering is bad in Texas
The only thing Texas has ever turned blue:
This feels like a fetish.
c/ballbusting
All the people in here commenting, like “oh no, there’s a hope! Step on it!”
We didn’t want people to actually get fired up and vote, now would we?
Repeated false hope doesn’t fire up anybody. It demoralizes people.
They don’t want to be traumatized by marketing campaigns, yet again, that give them hope, only to have reality crush it mercilessly. It’s defensive, and protective, and makes complete sense, living in a hellscape where politic and corporate lying is ever present and hazardous. They don’t want others to be hurt.
So you’re really just shitting on victims for trying to protect others.
You’re making a huge amount of assumptions about the people expressing doomerism. They could just be assholes, or bots, or workers pushing messaging for the political opposition, or non-citizens who are treating US politics like a soap opera.
All you’ve done is created a strawman, claimed it has been traumatized by politics and asserted that this strawman is every person that’s making cynical doomer comments.
The person that you’re responding too is engaging with the reality of the thread, you’re manufacturing a justification to feel self-righteous and outraged.
Sure I am. I’m not writing a peer reviewed paper here.
This is Lemmy. It’s terminally online doomers and pompous Linux dweebs.
Don’t give me hope… Just, don’t. 😕
Wouldn’t it be purple, at best? Flipping one Senate seat in a red state isn’t going to make the whole place blue.
For sure, but even making Texas remotely competitive would be a huge blow—it’s a large state that takes a lot of money to reach with political advertising, and if republicans have to start campaigning hard to keep their bedrock state then that time and money drain can start dragging other races.
Fuck’en A!
Is he a liberal or progressive?
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Doubt it, I’m not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They’ve had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.
Timing also matters. When things are shitty people want change.
Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely “wish I knew how to quit you” with them.
Texas is like ground zero for voter disenfranchisement though. They do it better than anyone.
…Working as intended.
Straight party voting was eliminated in Texas in 2020, at least
The point was 99% the vote counting fraud though.
Yes, though I’d really like to see some evidence besides this single image
I’ve seen maybe two other images of the “Party = D, Senator = Cruz” ballot “error”, but that’s the only one I saved (also because I know who took it).
When I went back to see what had come from the “investigation”, my heart just sank when I saw that the press had simply swallowed the line given to them by the Abbott-appointed Texas Secretary of State: “oops, no big deal”.
Who did the person who took this send it too? Did they name the county responsible for their elections? If this is real, I’m having a hard time understanding how I would have never seen it as a Texan plugged into subversive communities
Lady I know from Twitter posted it on there, and took it in Harris County.
And I don’t know why you’re so concerned about its veracity; the issue was widely reported on in Texas during the 2018 election. Search for that election and the phrase “vote flipping” and you should find out all you need to know-- well, at least all that Texas election officials were willing to admit to.
The same thing happened in Cruz’s 2012 election-- same voting machine manufacturer, too-- although it was more widely reported on in 2018. They’ve cheated for him twice now.
The “user error” explanation given was complete bullshit. When you voted straight party, that was it. There was no way for the voter to accidentally switch the senatorial vote after that. You’d have to be very deliberate to pull that off. And it has nothing to do with “rendering”.
The Texas Tribune took the SoS’s statement as gospel. But the SoS was the fox guarding the henhouse.
Yes, that’s right! I’d actually forgotten about that. I was never in the habit of voting straight party anyway, because once upon a time I would actually vote for Republicans if they were the only ones in their respective races. I figured the guy earned my vote for at least being the only person willing to do the job.
Not anymore. They can burn in hell.
As a Californian who’s only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.
I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don’t even need a USB drive now.
Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there’s always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.
Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don’t feed them the sound byte.
The gun comment was during the 2020 presidential primaries, didn’t affect his 2018 Senate run. Definitely affected the 2022 Governor race, but I honestly don’t think he actually wanted to run and just did so for the state party to save face when there were literally zero serious candidates announced for the primaries before he announced (like seriously nobody with any political experience, and one candidate without even a web site).
That loss was mostly due to bad turnout. If the Democrats had their usual Presidential turnout he would’ve won.
The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it’s really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.
And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There’s a good chance that if he leaves office, he’ll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there’s not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.
So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.
“I’d rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I’d give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children”
Mhmm yep. Very normal society.
I’ll believe it when I see it. You can serve filet mignon and Texans will still vote for feces on a platter. Example: Ted Cruz.
I want to believe eapecially since Paxton may be the worst fucking candidate ever.
However i think even assuming Talarico wins Hot Wheels will find a way to claim the election is rife with fraud and appoint Paxton anyway.
Considering that Abbott is in charge of the fix, he would know
That is a nice thought/expectation/wishful thinking… but seeing L.A. on track to chose a deeply shitty reality tv scumbag as Mayor, I am doubting Texans will do anything to help themselves
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Crocket is pro Zionist
I’m at least semi-optimistic because they’ve known he was the nominee for over a month yet their best insults are calling him “Talifreako” and a “Vaygun”. 🤔
