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The Texas Results Open Thread.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 29th, 2012 at 07:45 PM  | 

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  • checkmate2012

    thanks Moe and Change Jar!

    Was going to tell him to comment away on my Jalapeno diary but no need.

  • mikeymike143

    we need a southern conservative to add balance to the ticket, and demint is beloved by both the social conservatives and the fiscal conservatives.

  • mikeymike143

    president romney has a nice ring to it. :)

  • bk

    Early vote totals in Travis County (Austin area) had Dewhurst at only 45%.

    ref: here.

  • bk

    These are obviously not 100% equal of course, but the five biggies are:
    Harris County – Houston
    Bexar County – San Antonio
    Dallas County – Dallas
    Tarrant County – Fort Worth
    Travis County – Austin

  • acat

    Not that there’s anything wrong with supporting local business…

    Mew

  • checkmate2012

    U.S. SENATOR REPUBLICAN Locations Reporting: 110 out of 8779 1%
    David Dewhurst 168063 47%
    Ted Cruz 104355 29%
    Tom Leppert 53551 15%
    Craig James 14410 4%
    Glenn Addison 5862 2%
    Lela Pittenger 5031 1%
    Ben Gambini 1925 1%
    Curt Cleaver 1794 1%
    Joe Agris 1236 0%

    Source is real time: http://www.kvue.com/election-results?src=http://belo.bimedia.net/KVUE/election/race3.htm&width=780&height=1000

  • swami7774

    Dewhurst, David GOP 249,168 48%
    Cruz, Ted GOP 157,579 30%
    Leppert, Tom GOP 75,890 15%

  • checkmate2012

    to the other big Dallas & Houston metroplexes…San Antonio less so. Our music capitol…has to be weird in a good way!

  • earlgrey

    and the Keep AUsitn Weird slogan.

  • checkmate2012

    n/t

  • checkmate2012

    David Dewhurst 274739 47%
    Ted Cruz 173354 30%
    Tom Leppert 85974 15%

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

    Houston, we have a runoff ….

    RACE NAME PARTY EARLY VOTES PERCENT TOTAL VOTES PERCENT
    U. S. Senator
    Glenn Addison REP 9,695 1.78% 10,733 1.78%
    Joe Agris REP 1,759 0.32% 2,015 0.33%
    Curt Cleaver REP 2,657 0.48% 2,975 0.49%
    Ted Cruz REP 159,364 29.34% 179,810 29.84%
    David Dewhurst REP 255,779 47.09% 283,016 46.97%
    Ben Gambini REP 2,884 0.53% 3,279 0.54%
    Craig James REP 21,261 3.91% 23,856 3.95%
    Tom Leppert REP 81,955 15.08% 88,223 14.64%
    Lela Pittenger REP 7,782 1.43% 8,571 1.42%
    ———– ———–
    Race Total 543,136 602,478
    Early Provisional Ballots Reported 295
    Total Provisional Ballots Reported 334
    Precincts Reported 1,106 of 8,779 Precincts 12.60%
    Statewide Turnout 4.61% 13,065,425 Registered Voters

  • zachv

    I think Cruz pulled it off.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    being a panhandle boy from birth. I may live in Tennessee now, but Texas will always be my birth home.

  • checkmate2012

    for me:) Cheers!

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    NT

  • commonsenseobserver

    1174 delegates.

    Any chance he pops by in Texas for a surprise victory speech?

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

    Lots of ‘bad’ results out of Texas. For all our conservative swagger we make a lot of bad calls.

    3 candidates who deserved to win – Michael Williams, Donna Campbell, Wayne Christian … didnt.

    CD-25 was a demolition derby. Michael Williams would have been a great Rep, but he didnt even make the runoff in that field of 12 candidates(!!!).
    Roger Williams got largest share of votes.

    SD-25 was an attempt to take out prochoice protrial lawyer RINO Wentworth. Donna Campbell is a tea party grassroots type candidate who took on Doggett in 2010, and now took on this race. She was way outspent though. millions in negative ads from Elizabeth Ames Jones and TLR helping her out, and a 3 way split. The best of the 3 was Donna Campbell, who came in … 3rd. hopefully Elizabeth Ames Jones can win the runoff.

    Wayne Christian, one of the best conservatives in the state lege, got primaried … but Joe Straus survived (albeit 63% vs an underfunded ‘nobody’). huh?

    SBOE results looks suspicious (who ousted gail lowe?) because liberals have a history of putting phony Republicans in there, but at least Ken Mercer made it.

    Randy Weber looks to be Ron Paul’s replacement in Congress, getting the most in a crowded field. Good news!

    At least Justice David Medina came in first, I was afraid SoCon Judge Devine might win his ousting of the incumbent, but he will face a runoff. ugg.

    And last – but BEST one – constitutional conservative state Rep David Simpson REDEFEATS RINO Tommy Merritt!

    http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/may29_160_state.htm?x=0&y=726&id=69

  • checkmate2012

    as I said in my diary…folks are a bit turned off that he hasn’t campaigned here.. He’s in Las Vegas with Trump and Newt…so not all bad.

    He should swing by this week tho’ and think he wanted to stay away w/the Senate race implications…establishment vs. TEA party and Perry. Complicated and didn’t want to step in it.

  • PowerToThePeople

    and please do so with no bias as I want to know what can be expected.

    With it looking like Cruz will force a runoff and with a runoff usually being decided by who can get their supporters out considering it usually is a very low turnout vote, and with the leader in votes going into the runoff holding the upper hand, what chances does Cruz have to win this thing?

    I like em both but tend to believe Cruz would be more on the conservative side not too mention I love his fire, just want to know how this race will most likely pan out.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    being that Texas is big cattle country, there is plenty of “it” to step in.

  • checkmate2012

    most local reporters and blogs. The runoff is July 31 and the runoff will be extremely low so only the really motivated like TEA party folks and those paying attention to politics full-time, will show up to vote

    Cruz was quoted that only 1/3 of normal voters will vote in the runoff. Still Dewboy has lots of money but most are in full blown vacation mode by then.

  • Stricia

    Not happy.
    Cruz is going down in July!

  • checkmate2012

    Could be but think not :) He has handlers- lol- and not the cowboy type, to steer him clear of cow patties! It’s hard not to speak the language, darn it :) Clearly Perry had to endorse his Lt. Gov but bet he voted for Cruz and Romney couldn’t stump and be forced to take an uncomfortable side. Clink back :)

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Mooo!

  • checkmate2012

    Cruz will win in hot July.

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

    Dewhurst is ahead, too far ahead in this round, but his ads have been based on lies and distortions.

    A recent poll showed that among the most commited voters, Cruz was slightly ahead of Dewhurst.

    I would be more confident that Cruz would win if it was a closer race this round, but even as it is, it’s a 50/50 race and could be close.

  • checkmate2012

    lol.

  • PowerToThePeople

    will be fun to watch.

  • checkmate2012

    Ted Cruz – 32.51%
    David Dewhurst – 46.11%
    Tom Leppert – 13.37%

    My final report as it doesn’t seem like Dewboy will be 51%. We should give some thanks to Tom Leppert!

  • citizenkh

    http://www.redstate.com/citizenkh/2012/05/29/paul-loses-big-in-home-county/

  • checkmate2012

    as it should be.

  • PowerToThePeople

    trying to screw up the convention and forgot to vote. Guess they failed in both endeavors.

    Maybe this will be the last year we have to hear his name. One can hope right?

  • http://www.rightspeak.net/search/label/-Right%20Wingnut rightwingnut2

    With 63% counted…..

    Early votes: Dewhurst 47.85% Cruz 30.1% –

    Today’s votes: Dewhurst 42.7% Cruz 37.2%

    Cruz has narrowed the margin from 17.7% i n early voting to 5.5% today.

  • http://www.rightspeak.net/search/label/-Right%20Wingnut rightwingnut2

    NT

  • Matthew Morris

    I would be willing to bet that of the Dewcrist voters in the primary, a VERY low percentage went to the polls expressly intending to vote for him. I would bet that most voted based on name recognition or recent negative ads only.

    In contrast, a very high percentage of Cruz voters are dedicated. That is, the sort that would make a point of showing up on July 31 for a special run-off election.

    Cruz got this. (But let’s make sure it happens anyway- time, effort, and money.) He is too good a conservative to let it slip by. The man can communicate, and without pulling punches too!

  • acat

    (it’d sound worse than Howard Dean)

    …but congrats to Cruz. It’s a shame some of the other good Conservatives lost; sounds like the Texas GOP has some housecleanin’ to do.

    Mew

    p.s. and congrats to Willard as well.

  • acat

    (ahem) testicles.

    Mew

  • Stricia

    the pay or the title.
    Let’s see 29 posts in the past 15 hours. Um, I know that as a “cat” you are locked inside (of your head), but you should get out more often.

  • checkmate2012

    it’s stealth when no one is looking for the most part as far as I can tell. Pray tell Stricia, why don’t you want Cruz to win over Dewboy?

  • Stricia

    On the replies thingy — dear, I have a life unlike you and most of your clique here. I don’t sit around in a litter box like acat with one paw on wikipedia and the other on RS just waiting to quibble for quibblesake.
    Which brings me to why I support the Lt. Governor over Cruz. Mostly because of jerks like you and that hideous cat who support him so much. I figure if Cruz is the new cult-of-personality you two are so fond of — then I want not stock in it.
    Which brings me to my last reason for supporting Dewhusrt:
    Rick Perry endorsed him
    s/
    As you can see, being frank was never my strong suit.

  • gekster

    Don’t have much use for conservatives, do ya.
    I’ve read your posts, and I can answer that one for you.
    No.

  • Stricia

    The minute anybody makes a comment remotely different than the gekster way – then you label them non-conservative. That is so infantile! You are notorious for that tactic. You bore me. Go away little boy.
    Oh, how about this one, geks — Does your mom know you have her laptop?
    You can return to Hello Kitty now.
    LMAO!

  • checkmate2012

    I just call him like I see it as in he stretches the truth like dough and lies on top of that so I will call him what I please within the rules of the site.

    So if I have this right, most of your posts say you’re way to busy to contend with posts on RS and have told many posters to get a life but yet you love to post drive-by hit comments with no substance and diss acat and call me a jerk.

    If your decision to support Dewboy over Cruz is based on unknown jerks like us on RS and since Perry endorsed him (which was hardly a political stretch), then you haven’t a brain to base your own decisions on except the moo mentality. And BTW, don’t ever call me dear again or you will be the deer in the headlight.

  • Stricia

    n/t

  • checkmate2012

    when you only insult posters with no substance or make a generalization without evidence. You must be a liberal in a sheep costume to still be on this site. And you know I was happy when I thought you were banned and said so and then all of a sudden you swooped in stealth like as usual. Weird how you knew that when you have “little” time for us small folk.

  • sulmak

    I’ve met several Cruz supporters who came to that conclusion independently of the others. I also have seen many yard signs for Cruz, and none for Dewhurst. The only Dewhurst supporter I kow, my great aunt, didn’t know Cruz’s name until Dewhurst’s negative ads came out.

    Dewhurst rode name recognition to the plurality tonight. He has been Lt Gov for a long time.

    Whether Cruz will win is riding mainly on the turnout for the runoff election, I honestly don’t know how many people are dedicated to going to them, and Cruz has a certain advantage in people who had the Senate race as their primary reason to vote.

    From what the poll workers said, we had higher turnout tonight than they expected in our polling place tonight.

    So if we have less than 3/4 of the turnout we had tonight in the runoff, I would think Cruz would win.

  • sulmak

    Who would have guessed?

  • Stricia

    You are a boor and a bore all at once. If you think I must be a liberal in a sheep costume then I think you must be a hater wrapped in a devotional smock. Oh, and I won’t be replying to you anymore tonight because I will be BUSY getting my beauty sleep. My suggestion to a nerdy wench like you would be to do the same. I’m sure you need it!

  • txgrunner

    Campbell came from behind and made the run-off, besting Jones by ~2400 votes.
    http://www.kens5.com/news/Close-25th-District-Senate-race-headed-for-runoff-155568345.html

    Also, while Straus survived in easily the most expensive state rep race ever, his lackeys were destroyed:
    http://blog.chron.com/election/2012/05/straus-cruises-to-victory-his-lieutenants-clobbered/
    http://www.chron.com/news/article/Conservatives-push-to-hold-onto-Texas-Legislature-3591261.php

    With Cruz motivating committed, hardcore conservatives, Dr. Donna Campbell is in a great position to beat Wentworth…I pray.

    With Straus loosing some key brown-nosers, other state reps can now weigh the risk off revenge from Straus versus revenge from voters who are sick of Straus.

    For me, the surprise was CD-36, where Mike Jackson was expected to win. Instead it is former Rep Steve Stockman (about as conservative as possible) vs some new-comer.

  • checkmate2012

    sleeping in sheep’s wool won’t help you dearling. “I’ll be too busy to reply” is a constant meme with you.

    Chippie, I do appreciate the last word to cover up your stench so get on with yourself and get onto bed where you belong.

  • checkmate2012

    isn’t that a diss to the very devoted on this site? Just saying it sounds a bit mocking to lovers of Christianity on this great site.

  • Matthew Morris

    Your posts are very…. odd. It seems as if….there is no there there. Yes…. upon reading through Stricia history, there is definitely something there as to there being no there there.

    Is there a Dewcrist brand gravy connection here? Connections ought be aired.

    I have never heard of a movement conservative supporting Dewhurst. Only connected Republicans. But you don’t even seem like one of those. What are you, exactly? A site pest?

  • bk

    Leppert needs to come out early and back Cruz. Leppert’s “positive” campaign consisted of a positive Troy Aikman radio ad and TV ads that were negative toward Dewhurst and Cruz equally.

    What’s really sad is that if Dewhurst ends up pulling out a close one, we can only wonder whether the unfortunate Perry endorsement was the difference. :-( I sure hope Cruz wins.

  • checkmate2012

    there there. I’ve been attacked by her and also read/reviewed her posts & it’s all drive-by hit comments. No substance. You answered your own ? on why comment.

  • bk

    Eight-term El Paso rep Silvestre Reyes lost out in his re-election bid. Sounds like this was a race filled with mud-slinging and arguments over who could bring home more pork. Reyes is Hispanic and his opponent not, and Reyes had the endorsements of Obama and Clinton. On the other side was the same super-PAC that helped oust Ohio Rep Jean Schmidt.

    Ref: El Paso Times and HuffPo.

  • bk

    She started out with this STUPID argument that San Antonio was really the capital of Texas and then spent the whole race slinging mud at Wentworth – some deserved and some not it seemed to me. I’m glad Campbell beat her out in the end. With all three in the 30s you’d sure think Wentworth’s reelection chances are not great.

  • bk

    They were heavy funders of Ames Jones and obviously wanted Wentworth out, so I would think they’d be happy with Campbell vs Wentworth.

  • txgrunner

    Bwahahahahaha…you are basing your decision on Perry’s endorsement?!?!??!?

    Perry personally detests Dewhurst. They have a deep feud going way back and, while admittedly only speculation and rumors, the most plausible explanation for Perry endorsing Dewhurst is to be rid of him in favor of a Perry loyalist as acting LT Guv (which also fits Perry’s MO to a T).

    …and the ads they ran, with Perry talking about Dewhurst being an “outsider” and running “against the DC establishment”…what a total joke. Dewhurst is the poster child for insider politics and establishment mentality. His driving motivation is himself, which is why he bought his current post and is now trying to buy the senate seat.

    So, if your primary reason for supporting Dewhurst is Perry, doesn’t that mean you are following Perry as a cult of personality?

    Your reasoning confuses me. Everything Dewhurst said about himself is a demonstrable fiction. If you want an outsider, if you want anti-establishment (Dewhurst campaign theme), then even a scant review of information shows Cruz is the logical choice, and Dewhurst is the exact opposite.

    If, on the other hand, you support the moderate, appeasing establishment, why vote for Dewhurst who spent millions claiming to be anti-establishment?

  • txgrunner

    Donna Campbell made the run-off against RINO Wentworth in Senate District 25.

    Ken Mercer won.

    While detestable Joe Straus won, 3 of his closest allies were defeated.

    Anti-establishment/Tea Party candidates won nominations for Sheriff in Bexar Country, DA in Harris County, and John Devine made the TxSC runoff against Medina.

    Michael Williams loss was unfortunate, but there are plenty of other bright spots.

    The next big hurdle is the convention in just over a week’s time. That is when conservatives need to take over the executive committee of the party.

  • txgrunner

    I have no idea really, but I speculate many of the groups who backed Ames Jones will now back Campbell. Wentworth was their target and this is the best chance to get rid of him.

    Wentworth is a trial lawyer and always in their pocket. He was never well liked in the GOP, but was never seriously challenged until now. Given the risk Wentworth could end up as LT Guv if (God forbid!!) Dewhurst wins the run-off, there will be renewed emphasis by the lawsuit reform crowd.

    Also, they invested heavily and came close. At this point, I’d be more determined than ever to squash Wentworth in favor of an ER doctor who is clearly NO FRIEND of trial lawyers.

    In a KVUE interview of Ames-Jones, she spoke very highly of Campbell. Now she was leading Campbell by 900 votes at the time and was probably trying to woo Campbell supporters, but I hope her disgust with Wentworth is real. If so, the logical step is to immediately endorse Campbell.

    In a KSAT or KENS interview, Wentworth also praised Campbell, saying (paraphrase) “at least she never lied about me even though we disagree, she tells the truth and is an honest lady.” Wow…now he is facing her…hahahaha.

    Nobody interviewed Campbell, there were no reporters at her party, she went to bed trailing Ames Jones – she had to get up early to work her ER shift in the morning!!!

    God, I love this lady!!! Talk about a citizen legislator…she still has a real job!

  • txgrunner

    Some of the ads were probably over the top, but I didn’t see anybody in the media really pick them apart. What struck me about Ames Jones, throughout and now listening to her live for the first time, is she is an opportunist. Her interview on KVUE was really poor…a high school student could do better.

    I’d vote for Ames Jones – or a dead cockroach for that matter – over Wentworth, but I really wanted Campbell.

    Campbell is the real deal and a committed patriot who really cares about what is happening.

    Way back when I considered running against Wentworth myself. He isn’t just a tool of the trial lawyer lobby, he is a passionate advocate for their self-interest at the expense of everybody else.

    He is like Arlen Specter in so many ways. On numerous occasions he deliberately spiked conservative legislation just because he didn’t like conservatives. He is like France in the UN, they are on our side but sometimes stick it to us just out of spite and their personal vanity to show us up.

  • gekster

    Cruz is the conservative in the race.
    Show me where he isn’t. I’ll listen.

    Mom knows I have her laptop.
    She helps me spell the big words like ‘if’, ‘and’, ‘but’,
    ‘idiot’, ‘maroon’, and such.

    And Hello Kitty Paradise Island is an excelent online game.
    Just ask my 6 year old Grandaughter.

    And before you ask, no, I’m not in the basement.
    We don’t have one.
    I’m in the crawlspace. ;)

  • earlgrey

    I am a little jealous that you got to go to school there. It seems like possibly the coolest city ever. Of course it is probably pretty liberal, but can’t have it alll.

  • bk

    In Texas we don’t declare a party, but at primary time you indicate which primary you want to vote in. This is key because you can only vote in runoffs for the party you originally voted in. So I’ve voted D or R depending on whether it looked like there was a close race of interest on one side or the other where I’d want to be able to vote in the runoff.

    So you want to get your primary voters to come back for the runoff AND you want to try to pick off people who didn’t vote in the primary at all. The latter is a tough call, as if they didn’t vote when there were lots of choices, are they going to vote when there might only be one or two races to vote in?

    Dewhurst has run ads against Cruz that were thinly veiled anti-Hispanic, so we can only hope this comes back to bite him in the @$$.

  • acat

    Concerned that my productivity is making the rest of you look bad?

    Mew

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

    now that MQ Sullivan is cheering the lege results that toppled some Straus minions and that Donna Campbell does indeed get in the runoff … and I think she will beat Wentworth now, and TLR/EAJ will endorse her …

    It was a mixed bag, but more good than bad, and good news on the KEY race of Cruz v Dewhurst.

    “With Cruz motivating committed, hardcore conservatives, Dr. Donna Campbell is in a great position to beat Wentworth?I pray.”

    I agree.

    Also, I determined that the election day margin in Dewhurst / Cruz was only 6 points. This is very good news for Cruz. Peel off the casual voters who just picked Dewhurst for name ID and Cruz is ahead.

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