The 119th United States Congress

[romad1]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

It’s worth challenging. Georgia was red until it wasn’t. 

Yes, exactly. 

[Tigeraholic1]

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Or just maybe they will be more focused on things that are directly affecting them like affordability, instead of this dumb culture war ****. 

Yeah uh, this is Texas not a purple state. Jasmine Crockett would have been a much better choice, oh well....

[Motown Bombers]

Best case is Cornyn wins and Paxton runs as an independent and sucks up the MAGA vote. 

[gehringer_2]

14 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

That was 8 years ago and before COVID. Since then, the Texas suburbs have expanded rapidly. It’s the type of growth that put Georgia in play. People forget Texas has the same racial makeup as California. The environment also seems to be more Dem friendly than 2018. 2018 was the first time in decades a Democrat seriously challenged for a statewide race. 

true - I was just going back to '18 to get a number on a non-presidential year Senate race/turnout.

But not all of surburbia is necessarily favorable ground for Dems either. Depends on where people came from to get there.  We've got Macomb county which is suburbia, as is the area in MN that elected Michele Bachman just as another example I remember when I lived there.

The racial makeup similarity is interesting. Still a lot of cultural differences remain, with the Texas heritage being ranching and even more so the oil field, vs the California heritage being agriculture, entertainment and now tech. This produces a lot of difference in the world view of the professional classes in the two places. Also with CA being  renowned for its educational institutions, Tx not so much.

[romad1]

16 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Best case is Cornyn wins and Paxton runs as an independent and sucks up the MAGA vote. 

Or, that Texas billionaires learn that their money causes cancer if they spend it on politics or that Jesus is coming and he's pissed about their worship of Mammon. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

I've seen conflicting reports about how hard Jasmine Crockett will or will not support James Talarico.

[Tigeraholic1]

👀

 

 

Texas is going to love this guy! A real cowboy.

 

Edited Wednesday at 09:41 PM by Tigeraholic1

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

It’s worth challenging. Georgia was red until it wasn’t. 

True though this may be, Georgia is a friendlier environment to northern ex-pat management, professionals, and academics—the kind of people most likely to move for a job—than Texas is.

[chasfh]

Haven't had a double post in a long time

Edited Wednesday at 10:40 PM by chasfh

[Motown Bombers]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

True though this may be, Georgia is a friendlier environment to northern ex-pat management, professionals, and academics—the kind of people most likely to move for a job—than Texas is.

And Texas has been a destination for those same ex-pats from California. Georgia was in no way friendlier. 

[Hongbit]

6 hours ago, romad1 said:

I had a moment I had to apologize for at work today.  I said "I guess Crenshaw will be looking for work, which will be slightly harder since he's missing an eye."   

That's a bit rough.  

Much rougher!

[pfife]

Damn thats harsh

 AF Poast is bad people

[Motown Bombers]

Lots of rats fleeing the ship. I thought Tester should have gave it another go. 

 

[pfife]

The other Montana senator just broke a dudes arm

[Motown Bombers]

Isn't the governor the guy who body slammed a reporter?

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

And Texas has been a destination for those same ex-pats from California. Georgia was in no way friendlier. 

Not exactly true. Atlanta has long been considered a much more progressive city than Dallas, Houston, or any other Texas city except Austin.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

Lots of rats fleeing the ship. I thought Tester should have gave it another go. 

 

I hate the contemplate the idea that the candidates who replace them are going to be far worse as MAGAts and the Trump machine will fraud them into Congress.

[Tigeraholic1]

The game.

 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Not exactly true. Atlanta has long been considered a much more progressive city than Dallas, Houston, or any other Texas city except Austin.

Houston and Atlanta are also both minority majority cities, but in Houston the largest group are Hispanics, In Atlanta Af-Am. 

[chasfh]

Atlanta has long profiled as more progressive than Houston.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

This is just wild. Atlanta was always a democratic stronghold because it’s mostly black. Georgia didn’t go blue because the suburbs were Republican strongholds and anything but progressive. This is where Newt Gingrich and his Christian right came from. It was no different than the Dallas suburbs. 

Edited yesterday at 05:47 PM by Motown Bombers

[chasfh]

Atlanta has been drawing upscale knowledge workers over the course of the past 20 or so years in a way Dallas and Houston have not. That’s been enough to shift the politics leftward. 

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Atlanta has long profiled as more progressive than Houston.

Houston was a company town for all of its early years. The oil biz still has a big presence there, and that's a lot of professional, engineering and scientific types who should be the ones telling their neighbors the truth who have made the deal to self-censor  (or self-delude) themselves for their paychecks.

Edited yesterday at 08:08 PM by gehringer_2