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Maybe not necessarily low election day turnout though. Turnout overall is high. Election Day vote typically favors red team. Fingers crossed, but I've never had high expectations anyway.
Well....
Harris County really ed us. God damn Houston.
Trump won Texas by over 650k votes. There's really nothing more you could've asked of Harris county and not the reason Texas was lost.
TX is still verly clearly Republican. I love me some SA but yall are the minority in terms of prevailing sentiment and politics in the souf
and dont give me Austin bull if anything this election proves its that Gen Z dont vote at all
Same as 2018, Dems get the turnout they dream of and still lose. Texas isn't urban enough yet. For all the iden y politics that get played it's really just urban vs not urban that matters.
This is basically US politics in a nuts . The D vs R divide is basically urban vs exurban. Plus the electoral college gives a small but important advantage to sparsely populated states at the expense of the big ones. It'll be interesting to see the final popular vote % this time ... the popular vote margin and the electoral college margin continue to diverge
Small advantage? I'm about ready to call the electoral college an intractable problem for the Democrats. Looks like they might barely hang on this time, but how are they going to win it in an election where the Republican hasn't gotten 300,000 Americans killed and plunged the nation into the deepest recession any of us has ever seen?
Half of this country literally doesn't give a if it means keeping liberals, minorities, gays, and women down.
What I am hearing is that they came out to vote but the dumbasses didn't register beforehand.
Sigh.
Us Dems has ONE ign job... get people registered. .
It says something about the effectiveness of the right-wing propaganda machine.
All you have to do is scream socialism and half of this country believes you.
Minority rule in the USA seems to be an intractable problem. Republicans have won the popular vote for president only once since 1988 -- in 2004. The lack of proportional representation in the Senate leads to a chronic imbalance there too.
Maybe the dems should have thrown in some robust, socialist policies, too.
I think the difference is electing a populist the rubes can get around. Biden doesn't inspire which shocks no one.Maybe the dems should have thrown in some robust, socialist policies, too.
fingers pointed at Biden's lack of a ground game
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...0-15702596.phpRepublican political consultant Derek Ryan said Democratic candidates generally over-relied on phone calls, texts, commercials and mail in an attempt to make up for their lack of in-person campaigning. Republicans gained an advantage, Ryan said, by block-walking door to door, which they did while wearing masks and standing six feet from voters’ front doors. Marc Campos, a longtime Democratic strategist in Houston, agreed with that assessment. ‘I think there’s something to be said about not having a traditional ground game while the Republicans did,’ Campos said.
I agree 100%. People completely tune out tv commercials and radio adverts after a while. But when you actually talk to people then it has a more real and compelling dynamic.
But even Harris' appearance in Texas were non-events because of COVID and the timing of them. She was in Houston for a stop and probably 95% of people there had no clue.
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