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Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:20 PM

I am floored by this sea change.

Folks, I live in rural Texas. Not THE most rabid area, but still. My neighbor is a former GOP county commissioner. He was a recent GOP county chair, for years. The local GOP met at his house.

Today his garden-club prizewinning yard is sporting two signs:

Biden 2020.

Vote Blue No Matter Who.

Damn.

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Reply I am floored by this sea change. (Original post)
Jirel Aug 2020 OP
Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #1
Karadeniz Aug 2020 #2
sheshe2 Aug 2020 #3
RainCaster Aug 2020 #4
soothsayer Aug 2020 #5
dhill926 Aug 2020 #6
niyad Aug 2020 #7
TeamPooka Aug 2020 #8
Sugarcoated Aug 2020 #9
MLAA Aug 2020 #10
BlueJac Aug 2020 #11
soldierant Aug 2020 #12
efhmc Aug 2020 #13
Jirel Aug 2020 #37
efhmc Aug 2020 #44
HelpImSurrounded Aug 2020 #38
Delmette2.0 Aug 2020 #14
Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #15
Scruffy1 Aug 2020 #16
WestLosAngelesGal Aug 2020 #17
ananda Aug 2020 #18
warmfeet Aug 2020 #19
liberalla Aug 2020 #20
jorgevlorgan Aug 2020 #21
japple Aug 2020 #22
Initech Aug 2020 #23
mountain grammy Aug 2020 #24
LeftInTX Aug 2020 #25
onetexan Aug 2020 #29
cry baby Aug 2020 #26
onetexan Aug 2020 #30
LeftInTX Aug 2020 #31
onetexan Aug 2020 #46
MFGsunny Aug 2020 #47
dhol82 Aug 2020 #27
lindysalsagal Aug 2020 #28
bdamomma Aug 2020 #32
DesertRat Aug 2020 #33
Botany Aug 2020 #34
LuckyLib Aug 2020 #35
Upthevibe Aug 2020 #36
zentrum Aug 2020 #39
summer_in_TX Aug 2020 #40
Cha Aug 2020 #41
BootinUp Aug 2020 #42
Q Aug 2020 #43
jimlup Aug 2020 #45
jaxexpat Aug 2020 #48
Jirel Aug 2020 #55
jaxexpat Aug 2020 #56
sobenji Aug 2020 #49
efhmc Aug 2020 #50
CrispyQ Aug 2020 #51
calimary Aug 2020 #52
Nitram Aug 2020 #53
marble falls Aug 2020 #54

Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:20 PM

1. Great!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:21 PM

2. Let me second that: Damn!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:22 PM

3. Go Texas.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:24 PM

4. Damn 3.0

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:28 PM

5. Hot damn!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:30 PM

6. is Beto doing his get out the vote thing...

could maybe make the difference this year....

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:34 PM

7. Thank you for that encouraging news.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:35 PM

8. GOTV everywhere folks!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:36 PM

9. I'm seeing many similar encouraging signs

here in SE PA outside of Philly.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:37 PM

10. Daaaaaaa-mn

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:49 PM

11. K&R

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:51 PM

12. "Biden 2020" we are hearing from multiple Republicans.

"Vote Blue No Matter Who" - that's exponentially more impressive.
Damn indeed.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:55 PM

13. Any hint for this Texan what county you are in? Also wanted to add that a person I know who lives

in a very conservative and rich area of Dallas has seen NO DJT signs and one Biden.

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Response to efhmc (Reply #13)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 09:37 PM

37. Kendall.

We have a lot of rabid Trumpers here, but also some great folks and great politics. Right now, the blue crew is out swinging.

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Response to Jirel (Reply #37)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 10:31 PM

44. Defintely good to hear

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:59 PM

14. Happy, happy, joy joy.



I want to hug your neighbor now.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:01 PM

15. I haven't seen any Trump signs in my area of SW Ohio...

... and I know there were several this time of year back in 2016.

I'm not seeing any signs for Biden either, but it's encouraging that there's no Trump signs this time... at least along the same roads where I saw them four years ago.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:10 PM

16. I really think we'll bring in over 80% for Biden in El Paso.

You won't see many yard signs here, but the people will vote.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:11 PM

17. In Texas!

In Texas!
In Texas!
In Texas!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:14 PM

18. Dayum is right!

Good.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:14 PM

19. Turn it all blue. NT

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:15 PM

20. Wow!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:21 PM

21. Woahhhh

That is great news!!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:22 PM

22. I have family who live in Guadalupe Co. and Bexar Co. and they haven't posted anything

political for a long time. I expect some are die hard tRumpers, but I think a few might have crossed over. Might not say anything, but vote blue in secret.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:25 PM

23. Woohoo!!! Time to flip Texas!!!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:27 PM

24. Damn!

Thanks for the hope. I especially needed it today.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:36 PM

25. Meanwhile in my neighborhood in San Antonio





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Response to LeftInTX (Reply #25)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:20 PM

29. I hear u. Couple months ago hubby& i drove to Luckenbach to see the beautiful wildflowers

Its also a rural area.Saw big trump signs along the way put up by farmers on their fences. In my area just north of austin i've yet to see a trump sign though.

Well just yesterday i went to pick up 2 Biden signs & placed them prominently in my yard, next to a couple other local Dem candidates signs. My road gets lots of traffic since it leads out to main street so the signs get lots of visibility so im sure im pissing off any trump supporters driving by. Ive seen Biden bumper stickers on quite a few vehicles &also have one on my car.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:01 PM

26. Texas needs to vote blue down ballot too...

So they can redraw districts and win a seat on the railroad commission, which oversees the oil and gas industry.

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Response to cry baby (Reply #26)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:23 PM

30. Ah yes, Chrysta Castaneta is our dem candidate for RR commissioner

She's a former engineer & attorney whose worked in the industry for a long time & has great ideas.

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Response to onetexan (Reply #30)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:28 PM

31. She's excellent

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Response to LeftInTX (Reply #31)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 08:55 AM

46. Agree. She & her Dem opponent came on our county's Dem virtual happy hour & spoke.

He was no match for her. She's highly knowledgeable of the industry, impressively articulate & sharp sharp.
One note: If Dems take back TX House they need to rename the RR Commission to "Energy Commission" or something indicative of its purpose. Conservatives have been fighting this big time to keep the commission under radar. Currently all 5 members are conservatives who likely are getting kickbacks from the oil & gas companies for consistently making policy in their favor. Alot of rot in this part of the state government.

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Response to cry baby (Reply #26)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:31 AM

47. + 1000 n/t

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:06 PM

27. ......

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:07 PM

28. I'm not seeing magat yard signs.

I think his followers are hiding in dark, dank corners.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:31 PM

32. our lives depend on it

literally

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:44 PM

33. I wish I was seeing that in rural AZ

I'm currrently in rural NE Arizona and I see lots of DT signs, bumper stickers and MAGA hats.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:54 PM

34. I am a landscaper and I have been working in a very

.... Republican area ... upper Arlington , Ohio ...and about 1/5 of the gop homes have this sign.

ENOUGH ... black background with yellow/ orange letters.


Trump is in for a historic ass kicking.

You can't rig a landslide.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 08:15 PM

35. And that's what we want to see -- a massive landslide "the likes of which nobody has

ever seen."

Fingers crossed!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 08:50 PM

36. Thank you for this post....

I love hearing these types of stories.....

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 10:00 PM

39. Damn!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 10:13 PM

40. That's awesome!

I noticed that M.J. Hegar is closing the gap with Cornyn and donations are way up for her. Fingers crossed that there are lots of folks who feel they same way as your neighbor.

What part of Texas?

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 10:26 PM

41. INDEED! So Grateful when even repubs are

Getting IT!

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 10:26 PM

42. this is going to be a long 2 months... waiting for the reckoning day. nt

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 10:28 PM

43. There is a God! But he won't be counting the votes.

RE Trump: some are born leaders and sometimes destiny finds them. But not without our vote. I’m very glad to hear of sea changes like this—but we must not forget that trump is a pro Grifter, suffering from dementia and with lots of ‘friends’ who will do their part to make sure the right amount of votes won’t be counted. Here comes the bottom ...Q

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 08:14 AM

45. Texas is indeed in play!

But let's not count it as Blue until the night of November 3rd.

Everything in for November! Go Blue! (OK, I'm also a Michigan fan so it covers two memes at once.)

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:47 AM

48. Is this the Czechoslovakian part of Texas?

Sometimes called Bohunks?

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Response to jaxexpat (Reply #48)

Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:35 PM

55. No - Hill Country.

This was the area where Germans settled along with many Mexican folks. We are a weird mix here, with some of the worst arch-conservatives, and a bunch of fiery progressives. The majority are hard-headed conservatives, unfortunately.

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Response to Jirel (Reply #55)

Mon Aug 10, 2020, 07:34 AM

56. I got that when you told another poster which county you were in.

You are so right about the peculiarities of rural Texans, though. I met an elderly farmer/rancher near Schulenburg years ago. Didn't speak English. His daughter had to interpret for me. He'd been born in Texas, lived there all his life and never bothered to learn English. His people had come there in 1850's. Talk about a day of awakening.
But I also had a lovely evening in a little village in western New York state in the finger lake region where Polish was everybody's first language, with English as second.

Some in the melting pot don't melt so easily.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 10:56 AM

49. Did he move and you not know it?

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 11:53 AM

50. Was surprised to see who the county was named for:

The county is named for George Wilkins Kendall, a journalist and Mexican–American War correspondent. Wikipedia

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 02:02 PM

51. I will pay for cable news on Election night in hopes of watching all the pundits when TX goes blue.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 02:46 PM

52. Thank you, Jirel!

Testimonials like yours are what give me actual hope.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 03:38 PM

53. I am seeing similar turn arounds by Repubs on FB.

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Response to Jirel (Original post)

Sat Aug 8, 2020, 04:32 PM

54. My wife was the county GOP treasurer for years, but she was against Trump from day one ...

she's been I told you so-ing the GOPers for three years. She was one of the strongest Hillary supporters ever. She's no longer GOP and she follows Rachel Maddow's show religiously.

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