Last Friday morning at the top of this brief aggre-post, I summarized what appeared to be some dark clouds moving across the Second Coming's horizon. Yesterday the CBS News Battleground Tracker poll revealed Cruz in the lead by six points ...
... and this shocker from the crosstabs, courtesy Evan Smith's Twitter feed.
Gotta say: if those numbers are not as reliable as all of the polls taken the day before Election Day 2016 (which showed Hillary Clinton winning the presidency), then your man Beto is dead in the water, Democrats.
Still, it's a little early to quit on the last best hope (no matter what Mike Collier keeps saying) for the Donks next month. And in addition to Latinx turnout, whatever strength or weakness exists in African American votes is going to get an assist tonight from some of Houston's biggest and brightest stars on the hip-hop front.
Now that is going to be a party.
(One more thing worth noting: when it comes to winning, Republicans put aside whatever grudges they have with each other, however great or small, and focus on the end result. If you want to understand why they keep winning and Democrats keep losing, right there is a great place to start looking. I have never known a group of people that could cling to a grievance any harder, for a longer period of time, than liberals.)
... and this shocker from the crosstabs, courtesy Evan Smith's Twitter feed.
In new @CBSNews poll, @tedcruz viewed as more honest and trustworthy and more relatable than @BetoORourke https://t.co/KJl3xdFk3B #txsen #tx2018 pic.twitter.com/CUVnvO9BnK— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) October 7, 2018
Gotta say: if those numbers are not as reliable as all of the polls taken the day before Election Day 2016 (which showed Hillary Clinton winning the presidency), then your man Beto is dead in the water, Democrats.
Still, it's a little early to quit on the last best hope (no matter what Mike Collier keeps saying) for the Donks next month. And in addition to Latinx turnout, whatever strength or weakness exists in African American votes is going to get an assist tonight from some of Houston's biggest and brightest stars on the hip-hop front.
Now that is going to be a party.
(One more thing worth noting: when it comes to winning, Republicans put aside whatever grudges they have with each other, however great or small, and focus on the end result. If you want to understand why they keep winning and Democrats keep losing, right there is a great place to start looking. I have never known a group of people that could cling to a grievance any harder, for a longer period of time, than liberals.)
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