The odds are certainly some of the best we can hope for:
Higher political engagement in general from Millennials and Gen Z than in the past.
It’s a general election, so higher voter turnout in general.
Trump has been banging the drum of fascism (or at least authoritarianism), so people will turn out just to vote against him.
Republicans have been glibly attacking women’s reproductive rights and medical procedures like IVF. Both issues will increase turnout.
They showed their ass when they acquitted Paxton.
He’s not running against someone like Beto. He’s running against a former football player, and if there’s one thing Texans love, it’s football. Cruz is already unpopular by virtue of being himself.
All those Conservative folks moving from California to Texas are moving to Florida, now.
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This was always mildly funny. Conservatives like to talk about democrats importing voters to turn the state blue, but from my point of view it was out of state republicans moving in keeping it red.
I fear that he's going to under-perform his party, but still squick out a win. People dislike him almost universally, but the GOP folks who don't respect him can still count on his vote and they know that he will kiss the ring to keep his job.
Also, I've decided "squick" is probably a good verb to use for most things that Ted Cruz does.
“The Democrats are coming after me, they are gonna spend more than $100 million this year, George Soros is already spending millions of dollars in the state of Texas,” Cruz told Sean Hannity.
Oh no, Soros is like Sauron from LotR!
Anyway, sounds like I’ll need to cut iHeartMedia from my supported podcasts if they turn up in an audit (I support a lot of shows, so I’ll have to check). Too bad there isn’t a market for podcast piracy.
Yes, I subscribe to get bonus episodes for some and to avoid ads for others. For some, I don’t pay and I skip over the ads. Some of my favorite content is the extra eps that I get from private feeds.
They were kind of the Sinclair Media of the mid-1990s - 2010s
Basically after the 1996 Telcom Act lifted restriction, they started consolidating and monopolizing terrestrial radio markets and enshitifying the airwaves. They brought back payola and started destroying local and regional diversity and pushing homogenous playlists and centralized DJs.
