Anyone else pretty shocked with the results? I was always under the impression corpus was more left.

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Anyone else pretty shocked with the results? I was always under the impression corpus was more left.

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Be specific.

OP: Corpus Christi is symptomatic with all of South Texas. In other words, La Palanca swings both ways now.

Specifically, what Battleground Texas failed to understand is that many college educated Hispanics with professional jobs are very family oriented and conservative by nature. These are the folks that have been here for generations, work their ass off, are very Christian, and maybe have served in the military. They resent illegals getting "free stuff" and they resent the deadbeat tatted up gangbangers who have all their baby mamas on welfare. They don't buy into the LULAC and La Raza drivel because they cannot relate to it. Many of these folks are voting Republican. So if you get 30 or 40% of them to vote Republican instead of 20%, it swings the state and will make Texas even more red.

And Voter ID will keep folks from voting multiple times on voter registration cards of dead people and family members who have moved. That is why it "looks" like turnout was low along the border when in reality more people were just voting once. This is a fact.

Combine fair elections with my first synopsis and you get more Republicans in office in South Texas.

Appreciate the explanation. I'm not from the area. I do wish they would rid the straight card. Encourage some research.

Another theory could be the libs not coming out on mid terms and all the people sick of Obamas shenanigans came out in full force and went straight ticket republican.

Probably a lot of that too.

The voters didn't turn out because........they're poor!


Here's the link

Everyone was given the same amount of time to vote.

B1: I don't always agree with you. But that's RICH!

I knew most of the local people on the ballot. A handful were worth throwing rocks at; the rest, not so much. It is hard to get excited about low grade megalomaniacs when they are all saying the same thing and have a history of not doing anything they promise.

I cornered one candidate for council who advocated hiring more cops and raising their wages; he was also inclined to cut taxes. I asked him where the money for the new and better paid cops would come from. Apparently it is magic because "the money is there."