Similar to 2020, last nights Texas results are another data point that Texas isn’t trending purple; it’s trending Florida.
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DeSantis has his fashionably white jackboot on the neck of voting in Florida too.
could it be that Floridians prefer what he is selling versus his opponent?
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The ones he allows vote do.
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I’m not discounting that policies like that matter, but it doesn’t explain much, to me at least. However, I can’t explain it either. The most gracious characterization for the majority of Texans is that they just don’t give a shit, and hate government. More likely, that majority just identifies with fuckers that do nothing but troll against boogiemen that don’t even exist in the state.
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No doubt some/many do. You could make a similar argument for states that vote solidly Democrat. My own view, and it’s just an observation over time, is that you have hard core devotees both Right and Left and most other voters make a decision to vote for a candidate they view as imperfect but most closely represents whatever it is they think is important to them. In other words, they’re not crazy about who they’re voting for but can’t stand the other candidate. So, why does Ted Cruz who is not even liked by puppies elected? Maybe look at what the other candidate is bringing to the table.
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Oz has conceded. Good for him.
Charlie Crist was definitely a sacrificial lamb. He performed far worse than Andrew Gillam did in 2018, and he was considered something of a Hail Mary.
This implies an amount of critical thinking that is probably absent from most voters’ thought processes.
A proven loser who’s only beloved in his home district of St. Petersburg.
Florida needs a strong personality and communicator who can move a message beyond, “Look how bad this other guy is.”
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Right now, Ron Johnson is looking favorite to retain his WI senate seat. But, with Fetterman winning in PA, the GOP needs to pick up two of the remaining three seats up for grabs in GA, AZ and NV. GA is going to go to a runoff, Kelly is looking in good shape in AZ but Cortez Masto is behind the odious Laxalt in NV.
So, if AZ and NV split, it’s going to be down to the GA runoff - again - for control of the senate.
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He’ll get a nice tray of crudites as a parting gift.
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Unfortunately, he’ll have more time to spend with puppies.
The R’s could have easily picked up that Senate seat had they run an even semi-credible candidate.
He lost to a guy who had a stroke and (as a result) face planted in the debate. A competent candidate wins that going away.
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In the US House, the GOP needs a net gain of 5 seats to take the gavel, and I believe they have that right now. But there are opportunities still for Dems to flip some seats the other way to erode the net gain; most amusingly in CO 3, where Boebert is losing with 90+% of the vote in.
It looks like a small GOP majority - like +/- 5 seats - is the probable outcome. That will be an unmanageable shit show for whoever becomes Speaker…because it ain’t going to be McCarthy.
I would argue that voter apathy is created too.
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Two sides of the same coin. If you make it an uphill battle for people to register, while pushing the narrative that they can’t change anything, people give up trying.
Not to mention social services are so poor in Texas that many people don’t have the time or the head space to follow or participate in politics. They’re too busy trying to survive.
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This always brings me back to Orwell’s “1984”, where the “terrorist” Emmanuel Goldstein describes how those in power keep the masses “stupefied by poverty”. This is exactly what is going on in Texas and many other parts of the country, and it’s absolutely on purpose.
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