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7 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

538 ranks Ipsos as a B+ poll, so that is nice.  Quinnipiac is A-. 

 

Weird to have such a huge range in two respected polls simultaneous.   If you told me that the state was somewhere between Cruz +9 and Beto +2, I'd say "Why the hell did we conduct a poll at all?  Of course it is."

Quinnipiac was 35R, 26D, 33I (R+9)

Ipsos was 47R, 43D, 9I (R+4)

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3 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

Yeah, I wanted to see if it was the same LV set of voters and there's no mention of it. 

I am not as worried about SD-19 being a harbinger. Gallego had already lost twice. It sucks but stop trying to run a guy that has gotten beaten. Pete might be a good guy but the voters ain't buying what he's selling.

I may be head in the sand, but I just see it as an off-schedule election where GOTV is literally the only thing that matters.  It looks like the Rs put a lot of effort into it.

 

Of course, my inner hypocrite knows that if the result was the opposite, I'd be nodding sagely saying storm's a brewin'.

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7 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I am not as worried about SD-19 being a harbinger. Gallego had already lost twice. It sucks but stop trying to run a guy that has gotten beaten. Pete might be a good guy but the voters ain't buying what he's selling.

I am only worried in the sense that Beto and Gina Ortiz Jones need to figure out how to get Hispanics to the polls.  They didn't show up for Gallego.  Will they show up for an O'Rourke and Jones?

Otherwise, Hurd wins a 3rd term and Beto gets stomped.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

Ted Cruz using passive verbiage for how Botham Jean "found himself murdered"

(I have no idea who the Gregory Brothers are)

Hopefully Cruz will find himself out of the Senate on November 7.

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49 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

538 ranks Ipsos as a B+ poll, so that is nice.  Quinnipiac is A-. 

 

Weird to have such a huge range in two respected polls simultaneous.   If you told me that the state was somewhere between Cruz +9 and Beto +2, I'd say "Why the hell did we conduct a poll at all?  Of course it is."

I don't know that it's weird.  Along the way, you should have some outliers.  When everybody shows a race as R+4 or D+5, that's when I would get worried.  It means the pollsters aren't trusting their data and are herding.

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

New poll with the opposite result, puts Beto in the lead

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/19/beto-orourke-leads-cruz-new-poll-texas-senate-race/

I'm not going crazy with that given the other one is Quinnipiac.  But still, I'll take some good news.

Fun part - 

 

grain of salt part

no fucking way abbott only has a 5 point lead

I don't know where the Trib is getting that.  The poll itself has Abbott 50% Valdez 41%, which seems fairly plausible.

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On 9/15/2018 at 8:55 AM, babysdaddy said:


I emailed the debate1 address above. Asked for 2

PM or email me if you get tickets.  My phone died so I can't get text messages until I replace it or get it fixed.

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I'm not loving seeing a lot of the big 4' x 4' Beto signs where I live (Allen) zip tied side by side with Lupe Valdez signs like they're a package deal.  Not that I have anything against her, but that's just not going to help him.  

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12 hours ago, SaucyJack said:

FWIW, R just won State Senate Dist. 19

The previous officeholder (D) was found guilty of bribery so it's not a surprise that the seat flipped.  But whatever the reason this was a big pickup for the Republicans.  Their super majority was viewed as in danger and this helps to lock it down.

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I'm not loving seeing a lot of the big 4' x 4' Beto signs where I live (Allen) zip tied side by side with Lupe Valdez signs like they're a package deal.  Not that I have anything against her, but that's just not going to help him.  

 

So what? It isn’t hurting Beto either.

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29 minutes ago, threesheets said:

I'm not loving seeing a lot of the big 4' x 4' Beto signs where I live (Allen) zip tied side by side with Lupe Valdez signs like they're a package deal.  Not that I have anything against her, but that's just not going to help him.  

The Texas Dem Party looks to be unsure of how to handle Beto's surge and may actually hurt him by literally tying him to their other Dem statewide candidates who zero chance of winning their elections.   However in some parts of the state (e.g. Valley) this could help Beto.  Walking a fine line.

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538 ranks Ipsos as a B+ poll, so that is nice.  Quinnipiac is A-. 
 
Weird to have such a huge range in two respected polls simultaneous.   If you told me that the state was somewhere between Cruz +9 and Beto +2, I'd say "Why the hell did we conduct a poll at all?  Of course it is."

Good info re their scores. I think the wide margin is indicative of old patterns and new and Beto is all in on the new - young voters and texting for votes and dollars. I think the methodologies are difficult to stabilize and get really accurate numbers. I think Cruz +5 to Beto +3 is a realistic range for a vote today and who knows from there. It really will be GOTV and that alone for the win. Both sides have enough support to win - and THAT is the silver lining. The Dem has enough support to win. Hallelujah!!
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2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

PM or email me if you get tickets.  My phone died so I can't get text messages until I replace it or get it fixed.

no response from my email to that campaign email address.

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14 hours ago, Celery Man said:

I am curious about that - what it means in that poll to get R respondents vs D respondents and what numbers they are using to scale.  Registered republicans statewide as of last election?  Now?  I assume an R in that poll means that someone responded and identified as a republican?  I assume that they know what they are doing and don't see that poll as anything but bad news for Beto, but it seems like a difficult atmosphere to poll.  I registered as a democrat for the first time when voting for Beto in the primary, and really paused before doing so.

For example, if you were an African-American Democrat, they might scale your response to be 60% of say a white Republican. 

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3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

I am not as worried about SD-19 being a harbinger.

It's definitely the Dem playbook.

Run a personable guy at the top of the ticket with zero coattails and lose all of the downballot races.

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The Texas Dem Party looks to be unsure of how to handle Beto's surge and may actually hurt him by literally tying him to their other Dem statewide candidates who zero chance of winning their elections.   However in some parts of the state (e.g. Valley) this could help Beto.  Walking a fine line.

Yeah this makes me uncomfortable.  For now I'd like to see Beto on an island.  I'm not real keen on lumping him in with a bunch of democrats who have historically had a hard time in this state.  He has worked hard to stand out against the norm.  Let him keep it that way.  At least until he wins, then tie as many to him as he wants.  

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3 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Yeah this makes me uncomfortable.  For now I'd like to see Beto on an island.  I'm not real keen on lumping him in with a bunch of democrats who have historically had a hard time in this state.  He has worked hard to stand out against the norm.  Let him keep it that way.  At least until he wins, then tie as many to him as he wants.  

Yup, this. Went to a Beers for Beto thing a few weeks back in Midland and there was some dude there running for county commissioner or somesuch. Dude couldn't even bother to put on a clean shirt, nearly looked like a homeless man, but he's putting on a stump speech at the Beto event. This guy has 0.00% chance of winning anything in Midland County, but there he was. Felt like a waste of time and potential dilution of the message to be tying that guy to Beto and I'd rather not see that sort of thing right now.

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6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Just the way TRP likes it 

 

It's fucking embarrassing, especially when you consider that Maine's turnout isn't exactly something to be proud of. In my opinion any turnout lower than 75% is pitiful in a representative democracy. Maine was highest in 2014 with a 58.1% voter turnout.

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Just now, Huckleberry said:

It's fucking embarrassing, especially when you consider that Maine's turnout isn't exactly something to be proud of. In my opinion any turnout lower than 75% is pitiful in a representative democracy. Maine was highest in 2014 with a 58.1% voter turnout.

Got into an argument with some drunk Aussie a few weeks ago, slurring at me how Australia, by virtue of compulsory voting if you're registered, is more democratic than the U.S.

I had no disagreements. You register, you vote, or you get fined.  Even if you show up, submit a blank ballot, and walk out - you fucking participated.

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14 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

It's fucking embarrassing, especially when you consider that Maine's turnout isn't exactly something to be proud of. In my opinion any turnout lower than 75% is pitiful in a representative democracy. Maine was highest in 2014 with a 58.1% voter turnout.

At least Maine could use shitty weather as an excuse in November.

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26 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Comparing that chart with this one

Turnout_by_educ.png

you could conclude that virtually no one in Texas graduated from high school.

1.  Well, when you consider that one of our two biggest universities is Texas A&M.....

2.  Back in the 80s, I'm pretty sure I had a pair of socks that looked exactly like that chart.

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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

1.  Well, when you consider that one of our two biggest largest universities is Texas A&M.....

Hope that helps. And you could have just said that our largest university is Texas A&M and been correct.

Posted
6 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

 

I don't know that it's weird.  Along the way, you should have some outliers.  When everybody shows a race as R+4 or D+5, that's when I would get worried.  It means the pollsters aren't trusting their data and are herding.

I don't know where the Trib is getting that.  The poll itself has Abbott 50% Valdez 41%, which seems fairly plausible.

You really think It’s plausible that Abbott is only up single digits?  There’s no fucking way Abbott wins by less than 10 points. 

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Just now, GRHorn said:

You really think It’s plausible that Abbott is only up single digits?  There’s no fucking way Abbott wins by less than 10 points. 

With 9% undecided--yeah, I think that's plausible.  I think it's low, but it's plausible.

I expect Abbott to win along the lines of 57-40.  This poll isn't wildly inconsistent with that.

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11 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

With 9% undecided--yeah, I think that's plausible.  I think it's low, but it's plausible.

I expect Abbott to win along the lines of 57-40.  This poll isn't wildly inconsistent with that.

I’d put a less than 5% chance of being in single digits, therefore any other results from a poll that spits that out are very suspect imo. Makes for a good headline though. Should help limit R complacency. 

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1 minute ago, GRHorn said:

I’d put a less than 5% chance of being in single digits, therefore any other results from a poll that spits that out are very suspect imo. Makes for a good headline though. Should help limit R complacency. 

You're saying two different things.  You're saying that the poll should be predictive.  It's not intended to be.  Polls give you a snapshot of what the race is like today.  What it will be in six weeks is a different issue.  

The snapshot today is that Abbott is pretty comfortable, by virtue of having majority support.  And his margin is outside the margin of error.  So if the race were held today, he would win, barring a polling error.

From a purely predictive standpoint, there is relatively little uncertainty in this race, owing to the relatively low number of undecideds.  So to the extent we use this as a predictive tool, we can comfortably say that Abbott is very likely to win.

So with which of those conclusions do you disagree?

And by the way--nothing's going to help with R complacency.  Because they're so anti-science and anti-information, they just listen to their orange god.  "Red Wave!"

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I'm not a Republican, and I wouldn't vote for Valdez. That was the worst decision as a candidate from the Dem side. Can't believe she got the nomination. It's like they just wanted to go ahead and give the race to Abbott. 

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6 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The Texas Dem Party looks to be unsure of how to handle Beto's surge and may actually hurt him by literally tying him to their other Dem statewide candidates who zero chance of winning their elections.   However in some parts of the state (e.g. Valley) this could help Beto.  Walking a fine line.

Bullshit, most people are just gonna vote straight ticket. I dont even have to know her name.

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I'm not a Republican, and I wouldn't vote for Valdez. That was the worst decision as a candidate from the Dem side. Can't believe she got the nomination. It's like they just wanted to go ahead and give the race to Abbott. 

TDP is organized to lose.
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Drove up to Dallas today. Took 281. Saw cruz signs, no Beto signs through burnet and lampasas. Hit a whole slew of Beto in Hico. Or maybe it was Hamilton. Just kinda jumped out. Saw more Cruz signs on that drive than I have in all of Austin area. And the count was low either way. 

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Posted
14 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

What are the chances of Cruz downloading Duolingo or buying the Spanish Rosetta Stone before that town hall in the valley?

Too much porn on his computer to store a language-learning program.

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16 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Drove up to Dallas today. Took 281. Saw cruz signs, no Beto signs through burnet and lampasas. Hit a whole slew of Beto in Hico. Or maybe it was Hamilton. Just kinda jumped out. Saw more Cruz signs on that drive than I have in all of Austin area. And the count was low either way. 

Likely Hamilton.  Surprisingly strong Beto support there, at least based on Town Hall results.

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I have a Facebook friend that says "I have it on good authority that the Beto sign stealer is, in fact, Heidi Cruz"

There is also this pic. Could be photoshopped for all I know.
Image may contain: 1 person

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