For a lot of texans all they know about paxton is that he goes to church, and according to their pastor hes fighting for their religious liberty! Thats it. Thats all thats allowed to penetrate their bubble. Thats why he wont debate talarico, he cant afford for his supporters to get any other information about him.
I mean, we’ll see what the polls say when the last vote is tallied.
But, as has been pointed out a thousand times in Texas, this isn’t a Red State or a Blue State. It’s a Non-Voting State. Texas regularly posts loosey turnout even in wave years, and that’s by design. Voting is deliberately made frustrating, confusing, dangerous, and meaningless through a variety of mechanisms ranging from felony disenfranchisement/police harassment to broken voting machines/obnoxious mail-in ballot rules to truly henous gerrymandering to outright state takeovers of municipal bodies (Greg Abbott seizing the HISD board and rushing it through privatization being a textbook example).
Idk what’s going to happen in 2026, but I guarantee we’re going to see some extreme fuckery by election day. Whether that rises to the level of Brooks Brothers Riot mostly boils down to how badly the GOP performs. But I only think this state is competitive because of generations of disenfranchisement and voter caging. Absent that, it would look at lot more like North Carolina or Maine.
And yet the race is still competitive. Texas has some truly vile people.
It’s absolutely insane how this pig is still a contender
For a lot of texans all they know about paxton is that he goes to church, and according to their pastor hes fighting for their religious liberty! Thats it. Thats all thats allowed to penetrate their bubble. Thats why he wont debate talarico, he cant afford for his supporters to get any other information about him.
It also has a ton of wonderful people. Don’t let the bad ones blind you to that.
I made sure I said some, as to not even Indict the majority.
But I do find the kind of person who would vote for paxton to be pretty vile…
Absolutely agree there
That demographic is sadly skewed in the wrong direction.
They need to do a lot better job of making themselves heard.
That they do
I mean, we’ll see what the polls say when the last vote is tallied.
But, as has been pointed out a thousand times in Texas, this isn’t a Red State or a Blue State. It’s a Non-Voting State. Texas regularly posts loosey turnout even in wave years, and that’s by design. Voting is deliberately made frustrating, confusing, dangerous, and meaningless through a variety of mechanisms ranging from felony disenfranchisement/police harassment to broken voting machines/obnoxious mail-in ballot rules to truly henous gerrymandering to outright state takeovers of municipal bodies (Greg Abbott seizing the HISD board and rushing it through privatization being a textbook example).
Idk what’s going to happen in 2026, but I guarantee we’re going to see some extreme fuckery by election day. Whether that rises to the level of Brooks Brothers Riot mostly boils down to how badly the GOP performs. But I only think this state is competitive because of generations of disenfranchisement and voter caging. Absent that, it would look at lot more like North Carolina or Maine.