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I showed up and voted for Wendy Davis yesterday. Perhaps even more importantly at this point, I cast a vote against a LaRouche radical, disguised as a Democrat, running for a position in the U.S. Senate. There will be a runoff, but she got half the votes of a respectable, for-real Democratic senatorial candidate.

That Abbott out-polled Davis yesterday is not "scary news"; it's to be expected. So what? Texas Democrats have known all along that we have our work cut out for us. So what's with this "blowing money/flapping her gums" bullshit you're spewing on a Democratic talk site? Explain yourself.

I hope the foregoing is enough reaction for you.

my mouth and portraying my comment as somehow naive about how things work in my fucking state! I also voted yesterday, too!

You're the one spewing crap and I know EXACTLY where I am on this Democratic website!

Screw you bullshit screed! And screw your minimizing of my concerns about LOW DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT! We can't afford for people to stay fucking home!

I have a few more choice words for you, Paladin! But I don't want my post juried so I'll keep it to myself - this fucking time!

You sure as hell didn't offer up anything like that with your initial post. I stand by my prior comments.

To stand by them shows your character.

Here's my ONLY idea for boosting turnout: EVERY DEMOCRAT IN TEXAS NEEDS TO GET OFF OF HIS OR HER LAZY FUCKING ASS AND WORK TO GET WENDY DAVIS ELECTED!

Is that simple enough for you, Paladin, sufficiently stripped of nuance?

What else you got?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

I'm rooting for a Wendy Davis win in November. The odds don't look good, the national and local pundits are trashing Wendy's chances, and you know something? I don't care.

For better or worse, I'm a Texas resident. I was born here. I've lived here for over 55 years. I believe that we Texans (white as well as brown, Afro-American, or Asian) are better people than the sorts who vote for people like Gregg Abbott and Rick Perry. I believe we deserve better representation and we deserve better government than we'd get from a Rick Perry copycat and the Teabaggers.

I strongly opposed the sort of sorry governance we're getting from the increasingly-radical Texas Republican Party. I feel obliged to vote for Wendy Davis. We may indeed lose, but I couldn't stand to look at myself if I laid back, said "It's hopeless" and--*did nothing*.

1) Lack of contested Democratic races;

2) My RW politics stink more than your's in GOP;

3) Democrats have dissolved into 3rd party staus in a 2-party state.

The first 2 explanations are most plausible.

Go Wendy! Go van de Putte!

Well, I was out pounding my little feetsies on the pavement last week, and the Wendy response here in Houston is very positive. I am not scared. I am empowered. I am ready. I am able. I was not here when Texas turned that awful shade of red. Neither were a lot of my contemporaries.

Your concern is noted.

While I've no doubt voter suppression did harm, that doesn't account for such dismal Democratic turnout. We've got to rile people up!

It's just the primary. Lots of people sit those out, especially in areas where the primary serves as the local general election. If there are no local Dems running for local seats, the Dems won't vote.

Primaries and special elections tend to have low turn outs. Hope I am right.