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Curious who supports Dewhurst?

By: burbmom (Diary)  |  July 17th, 2012 at 08:00 PM  | 

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In my circle of influence, we all support Ted Cruz and are looking forward to voting for him in a few days. When I see poll results showing Dewhurst with support anywhere from high 30′s to low 40′s, I wonder who in the world these supporters are.

This past weekend the Cruz campaign organized a block walk for volunteers to help out in the southwest area of Austin. I’ve block walked for candidates before and was glad to actually DO something for Ted Cruz other than attend a forum or put a bumper sticker on my car. We targeted only republican primary voters, an efficient use of resources and time.

Well, my question of who supports Dewhurst was answered. The signs in this yard caused me to crack a smile:
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Y’all remember Dr. Donna Campbell; she ran a strong campaign based on conservative principles against Congressman Lloyd Doggett in 2010. Now she has her sights set on winning a Texas senate seat from the most liberal Republican currently serving, Jeff Wentworth. By some metrics, Senator Wentworth is more liberal than a couple of senate democrats. It takes a very engaged, passionate person to put a sign in their yard; you have to be willing to announce to everyone whom you support. And these homeowners are passionate about the moderate/liberal fraction in the GOP. “Birds of a feather” is truly appropriate. I know we can’t extrapolate this into everyone who supports Dewhurst is also on board with the liberal republicans, but just…. wow.

Here’s a nice conservative set of signs:tcdc

If you’ve never block walked for a candidate, I hope everyone will give it a try. It tends to be fun and the added benefit of exercise. I’ll share one more quick story from this weekend. One house I approached, the man was in the driveway so I didn’t even need to ring the doorbell. I explained who I was along with the background of targeting voters who had voted in the republican primary and asking them consider voting for Ted Cruz. The man laughed and said, “we’re democrats here”.

We joked about a couple of things and I apologized for the error once again mentioning we were only knocking on doors of republican primary voters. His wife pipes up with a sheepish grin, “I voted in the republican primary”. The look on the husband’s face will stay with me forever! She took my flyer for Ted Cruz.

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  • sulmak

    They were half-heartedly(if not quarter-heartedly) leaning Dewhurst simply because they didn’t know much about Cruz, and were admittedly not sure who to vote for. My dad probably wouldn’t have voted since he wasn’t sure about either of them, he simply hasn’t had the free time to research it in the past few months.

    My grandma gets all her info from the Fox News Channel, CNBC, and the Weekly Standard, so all her information was from a national news sources or from local political ads. It is hard to get much info from that. She doesn’t read any online news sources like most Redstaters do.

    All I had to do was mention that he led the District of Columbia v. Heller arguments that led to the Supremes upholding the individual right to bear arms, and to mention his work on Medellin v. Texas defending US and Texas sovereignty against the ICJ. It took nothing else to completely convince them.

  • http://www.10th-amendment.org tjscott

    David Dewhurst is being supported by people that want something from him.

    People that have friends in high places and want to keep it that way.

    I am not sure that they are even going to vote for him, I think some of his strongest supporters the ones making the biggest noise on Twitter and Facebook, the ones giving him the checks are not really going to vote for him.

    They want him as the Lt Gov and they want to be able to say I did so much for you during your campaign for Senator will you please put me on this board or that committee.

    His lobbist friends will say we gave you as much money as we could, we are sorry you did not win but we were there for you, so help us get this bill past or this person elected.

    I think the polls are way off and Crews will win big, I don’t think it will be a close as I once did.

    That is who his supporters are Burb Mom

    • burbmom

      what counts is 7pm election day and who has the most votes. It seems the Dewhurst supporters are consistent in their down ticket choice. I know a few outlyers exist, but for the most part they like the liberal/moderate republican in every office.

      • sulmak

        Conservatives break strongly for Cruz, moderates break strongly for Dewhurst, and “liberals” break mildly for Cruz among likely Republican primary voters.

        Despite no real advantage for Cruz among “liberals” in approval ratings vs Dewhurst.

        Granted there are not many leftists who vote in the Republican primary.

        You have to remember, many leftists will vote for Cruz simply because he is hispanic/latino/(whatever the PC term is these days).

  • mikeymike143

    2012 is going to be a good year for the GOP, just like 2010 was.

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      I hear Dewhurst adds on an almost hourly basis. He is spending a huge amount of money. That has me worried.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    5 star diary … other’s might not get the Campbell / Wentworth Dewhurst / Cruz connection, but this is a downballot TeaParty Conservative vs Establishment Moderate race.

    Here’s why Donna Campbell will win- Ted Cruz coattails!

    Who votes in a runoff in July anyway? That’s crazy stuff only hardcore political junkies will do. :-)
    Who supports Dewhurst? Moderates and low information voters who got swayed by ads or dont know whats going on.

    Cruz will get his voters to turn out better. IMHO, he wins by 8 to 10.

    Complete speculation on my part, and I havent done/seen polling, but … That means Donna Campbell has the edge as Cruz voters will be Donna Campbell voters.

  • http://www.10th-amendment.org tjscott

    Donna has her own voters that will come out and they will help Ted win. She has her own coattails that Wes and Ted can ride on.

    Ted may help her in Bexar but Travis, Hays, Comal, and Guadalupe belong to DR DONNA CAMPBELL even Kendell is hers now that EAJ is out of the race,

  • burbmom

    and seem to mutually benefit each other. I volunteered outside a polling location during the primary to recruit last minute voters for Donna. Several voters said they were coming to vote just for her. She has a strong following and good will in the district which seems a direct carryover from her 2010 race.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I’ve block walked before. Well, it’s not exactly block walking in a rural county in Alabama, but you get the point.

    And thanks for sharing your experience, especially that last story. LOL. You meet some pretty interesting folks when you work on a campaign.

    If you’re not already involved in your local GOP, I encourage you to do that next. I wasn’t involved until a couple of years ago. I started out slow – volunteering at events and just lending a hand. Now I’m on the steering committee of my local GOP. It’s rewarding to actually have a voice other than just yelling at the TV from the couch.

    I’m not in Texas, but I’ve given to the Cruz campaign and am praying for victory.