Snowing the Texas vote on Tuesday
Monday March 3, 2008
Categories: Democrats
It's snowing outside now here in Dallas, and while it's not expected to stick overnight -- too warm and too wet -- they got pounded hard with snow in the Panhandle today. That's bound to depress turnout in tomorrow's primary....
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I think March snow in Texas favors the candidate who thinks that global warming is a hoax...
snow faith hope love joy peace to all...
Impeach God...
because they'll be able to re-elect him in '12? because high-school students can influence their parents? because the TV spot of youthful exuberance makes voters like him? Maybe there's a better strategy, but this one ain't bad.
Y'know, it's not even the inanity that drives me batsh*t crazy. It's the ellipsis dots. They're everywhere. There's no escape.
I'm surprise that Obama did not point to the sky and command the snow to stop but most likely his campaign had scheduled the dead raising and there was a conflict.
Charles:
You've got it wrong. Obama didn't WANT the snow to stop. After all, snow melts. His campaign wanted to schedule a walk on the water.
Your servant,
Lord Karth
". . .and his ability to handle a crisis (the red phone ad).
Why does anyone think that Hillary can handle a crisis and Obama can't. That ad is inane. And, it has been used before (primary contest between Walter Mondale and Gary Hart). On what does she base her conclusion that she is more experienced and will be ready to rule on day one? Is it because she was the First Lady (I don't remember her handling any international crisis as First Lady). She is a Senator,and so is Barak (yes she is on the Foreign Relations commitee but I don't believe they have ever handled a crisis). She's a lawyer and he is a lawyer. As far as I know that is all we know about the two of them and it hardly tells us that either one is more experienced than the other.
Unless Bill let Hillary be the President at those times when he was dallying in the Oval office.
Forgot my email and name on the above post.
I live in the Texas Panhandle in Borger. The weather warmed up to 44 degrees on Monday and all the snow melted. The weather in the Texas Panhandle should not be a factor. There aren't many Democratic voters in the Panhandle anyway.
West Texas used to be the home of the Blue Dog Democrats, the last of the old coalition Texas Democrats on the cultural right. The populists. But the national Democratic Party (and GOP leaders in Texas drawing re-districting lines) pretty much killed them off.
Are there any Democrats left in Congress out there?
Charles Stenholm was one of the last of the Blue Dog Democrats in west Texas (he lived in the Abilene area). The Redistricting of 2003 put Abilene together with Lubbock and put Stenholm in a district that was impossible for him to win. He was defeated by Randy Neugebauer (of Lubbock) in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stenholm
From this map you can see that the Panhandle and South Plains are among the reddest areas in America:
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/PurpleAmericaPosterAll50.gif
In Ochiltree County in the northern Panhandle, Bush got 92% of the vote in 2004, if I remember correctly.
Far west Texas is starting to become more Democratic because of the Hispanic immigration. The same trend could happen in the future in the Panhandle and South Plains.
These remote regions of Texas are kind of irrelevant anyway. 84% of the population of Texas now lives in the "Triangle" (the area defined by Interstates 10,35,45 that includes Houston, the DFW Metroplex, Austin, and San Antonio).
Can't you vote in a primary if you're going to be 18 by the election?
That's the whole senior class and half the junior class. In some places, 'high schools' are just 10-12th grade, so it's possible that he was speaking to people who half of them could vote.
But, more to the point, he probably did it a) to influence their parents, and b) get on the local media.
I agree with R Boggs above about the red telephone: I cannot fathom why this ad would sway anyone. What international crises has Hillary managed? Does it actually pay off for them to suggest that Hillary took herself seriously as an unelected co-president to an almost delusionary degree? Or, even worse, that she's not delusionary and she exercised authority to which she had zero legal title? I just don't get it, but maybe I overestimate the average voter.
David--whether or not you can vote in a primary if you're 17 but will be 18 by the election depends on state law. Some allow it, some don't.
Just to let you know, I live in Columbus, Ohio, and the weather here is very bad for voting. Cold (but above freezing) and lots of rain. I haven't voted yet, but have been told that turnout has been surprisingly low in some places despite the significance of Ohio's election today.
Wouldn't bad weather favor Obama -- his voters are joyful, Hillary's are more dutiful ...
Isn't duty what brings people out in lousy weather? That's kind of what Garrison Keillor says about Minnesot'ns, anyway.
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