lol!! I thought for sure that your poll was going to ask us who our favorite drag queen is. The idea that this is a mere possibility tells us that the polls are fake. It's all friggin fake. You can't have fair elections in an environment of fraud and corruption, especially when the voting machines themselves are rigged.
Why anyone would pay attention to a poll is beyond me. Listen to them speak, read their policy papers, use your God-given ability to discern (see Proverbs) and then vote.
Unfortunately too many people drag into "adulthood" their high school popularity contests. Polls are like flies at a picnic. Just shoo them away, go on preparing the meal and commence to eating.
What gave it all away to me was Cornyn basically endorsing Talarico like a child having a tantrum in aisle 5. The GOP is still controlled by the uniparty. But that ALSO tells me Paxton isn’t.
I lived on national Texas for 18 years until 2000. When I moved, someone like Talarico would have been “dealt with.” But that was before the Hurricane Katrina refugees who never left, open borders, and Californians and New Yorkers (who apparently can’t figure out how who they vote for affects their quality of life) fled the mess Dems have made out of their states. I still have hope that Texans will rise up and end this heretic’s chance of ever holding any office higher than pooper scooper at the end of the rodeo parade.
Raffensberger set all kinds of gobbledygook up so that our Fulton Co., GA elections couldn’t be “looked into”— even after the FBI confiscated the loads of ballots.
Although Talarico's election would represent a new low, how will a democrat-controlled house or senate make any difference? The left might as well have been in control these first two years of Trump 2.0, for all the support he has received from Congress. This 2-year term must have set a record for Congressional inactivity.
EDIT: In spite of this, Trump has set a presidential record for the most activity in a two-year term, even against unrelenting headwinds from the judiciary. It’s truly unprecedented.
A Democrat Senate would be much worse: Impeachment of the President and his Cabinet. Removal of these key personnel. Surrender to the Mullahs. Betrayal of our allies Higher taxes.
The cause of the failure of the Senate Republicans is being slowly removed, one Senator at a time, e.g., Cornyn and Cassidy.
So, let’s get in there and push to get Paxton elected.
Why? To effect the change you want and to annoy the people who have been screwing you with the Failure Theater. Maybe, just Maybe we can end the Failure Theater.
A couple of those Republicans you wrote of were primaried out of office, so there's a chance the ship of state can be righted (both figuratively and literally that is).
Skenny, to be fair the House has passed hundreds of bills that are sitting stalled in the useless, do nothing senate. Whether that is purposeful by both of them working in tandem is unknown.
What i think is that when the Democrats have the presidency and both houses we end up with shit like Obamacare. When the Republicans have the presidency and both houses, executive orders are the only thing that gets done. An opportunity has been squandered.
I feel like we need to research the candidates for Republican nominations, not vote based on campaign ads, but research their votes if they have held office, and their social media. Also study the records of the decisions and sentences judges have decided when they are up for retention or removal.
None of the polls are accurate or reliable. They are all simply amplifying the pollsters political desires. On average they are 3% to 5% more Democrat than the voting public. They all know this so the polls ‘tighten’ toward the end of the race.
That said we need to Remove Every Democrat. They’re suicidally crazy. They are the danger, not AI.
Democrats and Islamists both are the danger. It's crossed my mind a few times that even the conservative-leaning pollsters might be predicting blue wins if only to drive Republicans to the polls. Whatever is going on with them, you are right: polls are not accurate or reliable.
Polls have been manipulated forever. Depends who you ask the questions and how you twist the answers. Don't forget the most recent poll that had the Wisconsin Communist up TWENTY THREE POINTS, then the company said they lied!
All you have to do is walk down 6th street in Austin and there is no way you could say that Texas isn't already blue. In the middle of the day in the capital of the state of Texas, people are laying on the sidewalk and you can't tell if they are dead or alive - just like San Francisco. That was what I saw when I visited 5 years ago. I lived in Austin in the early '80s and it was fabulous. My heart was broken to see it a few years ago. The police just walked past these drugged out junkies laying here and there as though it was totally normal. No truly red state tolerates that. Texas is full of RHINOs and now California transplants. Everywhere Californians move, it turns blue. That's exactly what happened to Oregon and Washington. They were lovely places until the Californians moved there.
When my wife and I sold our house, put stuff in storage, and boarded horses to travel for a while and see the country, especially Montana, the first thing out of their mouths was "you're not from California, are you?" When we said no, Pennsylvania, it was like we were long lost family! Welcome! Why don't you stay here?
Texas is certainly feeling the effects of the blue dogs. But get away from the cities and our people are still red. And fed up. Don’t buy the lie. Vote RED.
Thankfully some of that has been corrected in Austin since five years ago since we are in Texas. People put their foot down. Policies didn’t work and things changed to certain degree.
That's good to hear but I'd feel better if they chased the RHINOs out - including the Governor. He does just enough to let people think he's conservative. I live in PA and just like you mention about TX, once you get out of the cities, PA is pure red but the blue cities have the majority of the population, unions, and sanctuary cities so PA has lost it's red power. It's incredibly frustrating.
I have been involved in Texas politics, D and R, all my life, coming from a family, most of which were primarily as D's. I am an R now and have been for several decades and work as poll watcher, elections clerk or judge, conduct block walks and actively participate in the county R party.
The reason the pollings are so close is because of emigration and immigration. As blue states/cities collapsed over the past 20-30 years or so, many inhabitants from those environs have fled to red states. Many are red staters, so that has helped states like Texas. But included in these refugees are many blue staters who move for the same reasons but are loath to change their voting habits. To do so would require them to admit error and most of these folks believe they are smarter and better humans than anyone who votes for R's, whom they consider to be Nazis and racists. (There's an old saying here, which I never believed even when I was a D, that conservatives think liberals are good people with very, very bad ideas: liberals think conservatives are very, very bad people). So these transplants are going to vote for any D over any R , no matter what, otherwise their self-perceptions and world view have been completely wrong.
On immigration, we have imported huge numbers of H-1 B and others from the same constellation of supposed Einstein producing policies from India and China, plus huge flows from south of the border. The vast majority have limited English-speaking abilities and few with marketable skills, so they are going to be a rich source of votes for the D's. (There is an area just to the east of me that's known as "Little India", as the vast majority of of its dwellers are from India). The Muslims are setting up their own ghettos so as to impose sharia and keep control of their females and these areas are virtually all D.
So the long and the short of it is that successive R administrations have injected huge numbers of people who do not, for the most part, share the values or religious beliefs that made Texas, Texas. Based on what I have seen so far, I think the R's will hold all state and federal wide positions but with smaller margins. Nationally, I think this will hold true for the House and Senate, where I believe the R's will hold both, plus add some seats in both. This is precisely because,, as you point out, there are many very weird, odd, racist, anti-American, anarcho-communist, and jihadist D candidates running everywhere, not just like Talarico in Texas.
As my favorite pastor, Josh Howerton, says: "If Godly people won't lead, Godless people will fill the void." Vote as if your life and your country depends on it, because it does.
Kansas also has a liberal “pastor” running against a poor performing incumbent. Pastor will win as “they” selected the one from the largest and richest, methodist churche in the country. A lot of people in the congregation know he is liberal and a wolf in Sheep’s clothing but he will win because republicans can not get themselves out to vote…
It's all the KC refugees who fled to Johnson County and kept voting blue. I'm on the MO side but holding my breath that Marshall can hold on. Hamilton is indeed a wolf in sheep's clothing.
It's the big cities that are already blue. Probably where the Californians moved to when they escaped their mistakes--only to make them all over again.
My husband and I are lifelong Michiganians (F that Michigander crap! Never liked it and Whitmer has said it so much it makes me wanna puke!End of rant) and considered finding another state to move to. However, we own our home in a red county, I’m involved in our local politics and prices for dumps in other states were outrageous. Add to that learning all the roads at this point in our lives just seemed a bit much.
It's like the Republicans WANT Talarico to win, though. They keep showing a commercial calling him "weird". That's the best you've got? You can't criticize any of his proposed policies? He's just weird? 🤦♀️
Tonya, Cornyn, the Bush family, and Karl Rove want their revenge after Texas voters kicked Cornyn to the curb. They may be behind the pro-Talafreako ads.
Meanwhile, Democrats claim Paxton let a child rapist go free after a one-day sentence because he was a buddy of his. That's the way they have spun it, and that’s what everyone hears.
You should have a look at Capt Seth Keshel's Substack. You will not worry about either KS or TX after you do that. He's the best election analyst in captivity and he ignores all polling.
Jenna, my wife and I grew up in Buffalo, NY and moved to Allentown/Bethlehem, PA in 1984 when we were close to 40 so I could keep my job in the steel industry after Dems and RINOs destroyed it in NY. We moved to Texas in 1987 while Dems and RINOs destroyed everything industrial up north. I voted for Paxton in the primary due to his staunch conservative history and just as much, maybe more, against Cornyn because he is a POS RINO through and through: petulant, dishonest, lying, dissembling waste of seniority, who would vote to convict Trump if given half a chance. Honestly, I am worried about all the Talarico lawn signs popping up in The Woodlands, north of Houston. God help us.
No way Texas will elect TalaFREAKO. He'd be a strong candidate in San Francisco, New York or Vermont but NOT in this great state. I love that coastal libs keep torching boat loads of cash on these hyper-radicals in TX (Beto, now Freako). So...the billionaire-funded media psyop supporting Freako continues...
lol!! I thought for sure that your poll was going to ask us who our favorite drag queen is. The idea that this is a mere possibility tells us that the polls are fake. It's all friggin fake. You can't have fair elections in an environment of fraud and corruption, especially when the voting machines themselves are rigged.
Hahahahaha dammit total missed opportunity! ;)
There's plenty of opportunities! 😉
Why anyone would pay attention to a poll is beyond me. Listen to them speak, read their policy papers, use your God-given ability to discern (see Proverbs) and then vote.
Unfortunately too many people drag into "adulthood" their high school popularity contests. Polls are like flies at a picnic. Just shoo them away, go on preparing the meal and commence to eating.
💯! It’s a tactic that is as old as my McGill University tank top! Fear is the most effective motivator.
Are they lying and “fixing” the polls?! Hell, yes. Are they fixing to steal the election?! Hell, yes!
This is a numbers game!
What gave it all away to me was Cornyn basically endorsing Talarico like a child having a tantrum in aisle 5. The GOP is still controlled by the uniparty. But that ALSO tells me Paxton isn’t.
Hope you’re right, but with “reliably red” districts, voter turnout is typically very low. Please vote, people!
@Vee- did anyone else notice he had a quick ansdwer for who his fav drag queen was?
🤣🤣
Sure sounded like Talafreako knew that drag queen up close and personal. 🤢🤮
@Jennifer- yup
I lived on national Texas for 18 years until 2000. When I moved, someone like Talarico would have been “dealt with.” But that was before the Hurricane Katrina refugees who never left, open borders, and Californians and New Yorkers (who apparently can’t figure out how who they vote for affects their quality of life) fled the mess Dems have made out of their states. I still have hope that Texans will rise up and end this heretic’s chance of ever holding any office higher than pooper scooper at the end of the rodeo parade.
Raffensberger set all kinds of gobbledygook up so that our Fulton Co., GA elections couldn’t be “looked into”— even after the FBI confiscated the loads of ballots.
Runbeck ballots flooded into Fulton.
Although Talarico's election would represent a new low, how will a democrat-controlled house or senate make any difference? The left might as well have been in control these first two years of Trump 2.0, for all the support he has received from Congress. This 2-year term must have set a record for Congressional inactivity.
EDIT: In spite of this, Trump has set a presidential record for the most activity in a two-year term, even against unrelenting headwinds from the judiciary. It’s truly unprecedented.
A Democrat Senate would be much worse: Impeachment of the President and his Cabinet. Removal of these key personnel. Surrender to the Mullahs. Betrayal of our allies Higher taxes.
The cause of the failure of the Senate Republicans is being slowly removed, one Senator at a time, e.g., Cornyn and Cassidy.
So, let’s get in there and push to get Paxton elected.
Why? To effect the change you want and to annoy the people who have been screwing you with the Failure Theater. Maybe, just Maybe we can end the Failure Theater.
I generally agree with most of that, especially the opportunity to annoy people. Impeachments aren’t convictions, though.
In any case, the Congress will continue to achieve close-to-nothing. The “slowness” of Republicans is indistinguishable from “stopped.”
But I respect your optimism. Carry on!
A couple of those Republicans you wrote of were primaried out of office, so there's a chance the ship of state can be righted (both figuratively and literally that is).
Yeah but Impeachments take up time and prevent progress, which is the real purpose of progressives.
Skenny, to be fair the House has passed hundreds of bills that are sitting stalled in the useless, do nothing senate. Whether that is purposeful by both of them working in tandem is unknown.
You are correct. I'm just looking at the (dismal) results... an opportunity squandered.
You only THINK it couldn’t be worse with a Democrat majority.
What i think is that when the Democrats have the presidency and both houses we end up with shit like Obamacare. When the Republicans have the presidency and both houses, executive orders are the only thing that gets done. An opportunity has been squandered.
I feel like we need to research the candidates for Republican nominations, not vote based on campaign ads, but research their votes if they have held office, and their social media. Also study the records of the decisions and sentences judges have decided when they are up for retention or removal.
Jenna, TN has no income tax and great brisket. You’re welcome here anytime.
Don't threaten ME with a good time!!! ;)
@Jenna- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I don't live in Tennessee, but wouldn't mind it at all. It's both beautiful and sane.
But they use DEI doctors to rid the planet (almost) of heinous murderers…
Still on my list of potential Red States. Cumberland Plateau would be our destination!
Never felt more at home than my years in Nashville (1990-2004) when it was still a big city with small town feel.
I do live in Tennessee. 🤩 The far east in the Appalachian mountains. It is beautiful. And mostly sane. We would welcome you with open arms Jenna!
None of the polls are accurate or reliable. They are all simply amplifying the pollsters political desires. On average they are 3% to 5% more Democrat than the voting public. They all know this so the polls ‘tighten’ toward the end of the race.
That said we need to Remove Every Democrat. They’re suicidally crazy. They are the danger, not AI.
Democrats and Islamists both are the danger. It's crossed my mind a few times that even the conservative-leaning pollsters might be predicting blue wins if only to drive Republicans to the polls. Whatever is going on with them, you are right: polls are not accurate or reliable.
Polls have been manipulated forever. Depends who you ask the questions and how you twist the answers. Don't forget the most recent poll that had the Wisconsin Communist up TWENTY THREE POINTS, then the company said they lied!
All you have to do is walk down 6th street in Austin and there is no way you could say that Texas isn't already blue. In the middle of the day in the capital of the state of Texas, people are laying on the sidewalk and you can't tell if they are dead or alive - just like San Francisco. That was what I saw when I visited 5 years ago. I lived in Austin in the early '80s and it was fabulous. My heart was broken to see it a few years ago. The police just walked past these drugged out junkies laying here and there as though it was totally normal. No truly red state tolerates that. Texas is full of RHINOs and now California transplants. Everywhere Californians move, it turns blue. That's exactly what happened to Oregon and Washington. They were lovely places until the Californians moved there.
So sad... we really should have let California become a separate country years ago. Then refused to allow anyone to immigrate from California...
But then Texas wouldn't have Jenna! Maybe walk that one back a little?😆
When my wife and I sold our house, put stuff in storage, and boarded horses to travel for a while and see the country, especially Montana, the first thing out of their mouths was "you're not from California, are you?" When we said no, Pennsylvania, it was like we were long lost family! Welcome! Why don't you stay here?
Texas is certainly feeling the effects of the blue dogs. But get away from the cities and our people are still red. And fed up. Don’t buy the lie. Vote RED.
Oh my God! I wasn't aware it was that bad already years ago!
@Tay- my sister lives outside of Portland. She said the same thing (although she votes Dem). She said they also drove up real estate prices.
Thankfully some of that has been corrected in Austin since five years ago since we are in Texas. People put their foot down. Policies didn’t work and things changed to certain degree.
That's good to hear but I'd feel better if they chased the RHINOs out - including the Governor. He does just enough to let people think he's conservative. I live in PA and just like you mention about TX, once you get out of the cities, PA is pure red but the blue cities have the majority of the population, unions, and sanctuary cities so PA has lost it's red power. It's incredibly frustrating.
Georgia is like that. Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Macon are all blue.
TayKat,same goes for Colorado and pretty much every other former red state that has now been hijacked by the left. They are coming for Alaska now too.
I have been involved in Texas politics, D and R, all my life, coming from a family, most of which were primarily as D's. I am an R now and have been for several decades and work as poll watcher, elections clerk or judge, conduct block walks and actively participate in the county R party.
The reason the pollings are so close is because of emigration and immigration. As blue states/cities collapsed over the past 20-30 years or so, many inhabitants from those environs have fled to red states. Many are red staters, so that has helped states like Texas. But included in these refugees are many blue staters who move for the same reasons but are loath to change their voting habits. To do so would require them to admit error and most of these folks believe they are smarter and better humans than anyone who votes for R's, whom they consider to be Nazis and racists. (There's an old saying here, which I never believed even when I was a D, that conservatives think liberals are good people with very, very bad ideas: liberals think conservatives are very, very bad people). So these transplants are going to vote for any D over any R , no matter what, otherwise their self-perceptions and world view have been completely wrong.
On immigration, we have imported huge numbers of H-1 B and others from the same constellation of supposed Einstein producing policies from India and China, plus huge flows from south of the border. The vast majority have limited English-speaking abilities and few with marketable skills, so they are going to be a rich source of votes for the D's. (There is an area just to the east of me that's known as "Little India", as the vast majority of of its dwellers are from India). The Muslims are setting up their own ghettos so as to impose sharia and keep control of their females and these areas are virtually all D.
So the long and the short of it is that successive R administrations have injected huge numbers of people who do not, for the most part, share the values or religious beliefs that made Texas, Texas. Based on what I have seen so far, I think the R's will hold all state and federal wide positions but with smaller margins. Nationally, I think this will hold true for the House and Senate, where I believe the R's will hold both, plus add some seats in both. This is precisely because,, as you point out, there are many very weird, odd, racist, anti-American, anarcho-communist, and jihadist D candidates running everywhere, not just like Talarico in Texas.
Pray for the Republic.
As my favorite pastor, Josh Howerton, says: "If Godly people won't lead, Godless people will fill the void." Vote as if your life and your country depends on it, because it does.
It is a spiritual battle
... that's playing out on the ground. so what difference does it make to call it that?
Because it truly IS a spiritual battle tgst we must PRAY AND VOTE. And PRAY, PRAY, PRAY !
God help us.
Kansas also has a liberal “pastor” running against a poor performing incumbent. Pastor will win as “they” selected the one from the largest and richest, methodist churche in the country. A lot of people in the congregation know he is liberal and a wolf in Sheep’s clothing but he will win because republicans can not get themselves out to vote…
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
It's all the KC refugees who fled to Johnson County and kept voting blue. I'm on the MO side but holding my breath that Marshall can hold on. Hamilton is indeed a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Texas turning blue is a scary thought.
It's the big cities that are already blue. Probably where the Californians moved to when they escaped their mistakes--only to make them all over again.
My husband and I are lifelong Michiganians (F that Michigander crap! Never liked it and Whitmer has said it so much it makes me wanna puke!End of rant) and considered finding another state to move to. However, we own our home in a red county, I’m involved in our local politics and prices for dumps in other states were outrageous. Add to that learning all the roads at this point in our lives just seemed a bit much.
Same…every time Gretchen calls us Michiganders my sphincter twitches. Lifelong resident, used to love this state…have faith,
Does she also say Michigeese - it's as good as for the Michigander.
Good one
I tune her out
Can’t stand to look at her either. I had the same reaction with Obama.
It's like the Republicans WANT Talarico to win, though. They keep showing a commercial calling him "weird". That's the best you've got? You can't criticize any of his proposed policies? He's just weird? 🤦♀️
Tonya, Cornyn, the Bush family, and Karl Rove want their revenge after Texas voters kicked Cornyn to the curb. They may be behind the pro-Talafreako ads.
Meanwhile, Democrats claim Paxton let a child rapist go free after a one-day sentence because he was a buddy of his. That's the way they have spun it, and that’s what everyone hears.
I've thought the same whenever I see those ads. *eyeroll*
It’s the ‘pendulum’ thing. Have to admit it hasn’t swung far enough yet. Pray we can survive till it hits the return trip.
Seriously…PRAY
You should have a look at Capt Seth Keshel's Substack. You will not worry about either KS or TX after you do that. He's the best election analyst in captivity and he ignores all polling.
Thanks! will check it out.
Link?
Very easy to find... Unfortunately, he keeps almost all posts behind a pay wall.
https://substack.com/@realskeshel?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=do3lm
Thanks!
He's right here on Substack.
We live in a lovely neighborhood in Sarasota.
Jenna, my wife and I grew up in Buffalo, NY and moved to Allentown/Bethlehem, PA in 1984 when we were close to 40 so I could keep my job in the steel industry after Dems and RINOs destroyed it in NY. We moved to Texas in 1987 while Dems and RINOs destroyed everything industrial up north. I voted for Paxton in the primary due to his staunch conservative history and just as much, maybe more, against Cornyn because he is a POS RINO through and through: petulant, dishonest, lying, dissembling waste of seniority, who would vote to convict Trump if given half a chance. Honestly, I am worried about all the Talarico lawn signs popping up in The Woodlands, north of Houston. God help us.
I think/pray that all of those signs are just a product of that virtue signaling side… our strength is in our silence! Lol but seriously.💪
No way Texas will elect TalaFREAKO. He'd be a strong candidate in San Francisco, New York or Vermont but NOT in this great state. I love that coastal libs keep torching boat loads of cash on these hyper-radicals in TX (Beto, now Freako). So...the billionaire-funded media psyop supporting Freako continues...