Texsox

Nice job Illinois.

I'm enjoying the moment. Could be all the early voting.

I'm enjoying the moment. Could be all the early voting.

Anyone know what percentage if voters are snow birds that stayed?

Which is another reason I support keeping it. It really doesn't favor one party over the other and moderates huge swings.

The fact that pollsters are calling Texas a battleground feels good after 20 years of feeling my votes didn't count. I have always lived in solidly blue areas of the state but I knew state wide it didn't matter. If feels great to think my candidates have a chance.

Texas is in play because of Dell, Tesla, Texas Instruments, Austin, transplants like me lol, and the border communities. As Texas cities grow we are becoming more blue.

Yes. I'm sure Poppy appreciates not being the only defender. But if your guy wins

Almost 250 years of peaceful transitions . . .

I want to be pleasantly surprised so I'm fearing the worse. And seeing barricades around the Alamo and businesses boarding up, I'm not alone.

Not going to happen. This will take weeks and lots of lawyers. CNN called Indiana for Trump.

Where are y'all getting your election coverage?

Excellent summary. I would like to add Presidents receive too much blame and too much credit for events that happen while they are president.

I believe we had the before he was great years and we're getting the after he was great years.

Because he can't buy and rename the party? I believe history will view Trump and more specifically his team, as some of the greatest political strategists of our generation. A true Washington outsider who figured out a way to win the biggest political prize. I believe he would have adopted liberal views if he thought he could have been elected as a Dem.

I think we'll turn sooner. We came close to electing Beto which made folks realize it was possible. But Cruz is an easier target statewide than Cornyn. What is helping are the tech companies coming to Texas like Tesla and bringing in or keeping here, younger, better educated, workers. The divide is really more rural voters who don't need, want, or accept government interference and urban centers which do. Government health care? Stitch yourself up and get back to work. Taxes for stuff we'll never need or use? No. Tell me from 3,000 miles away what I can and can't do on my own land? Hell no. That self reliance runs deep. Classic small taxes, small government works the best for those people. Working the Beto campaign was a real eye opener. I respect those voters more.

Another reason to dislike the move, Ozzie thinks it's a good one.

It's crazy to think that there probably isn't a poster here who was alive the last time we added a state. Prior to Alaska and Hawaii it was a regular occurrence.

There is always plenty of hypocrisy to go around. I did not criticize Trump and Republicans now for doing what I expected them to do four years ago. That is to do their jobs and confirm a SCOTUS nominee. I did criticize them then and I criticize them now for hiding behind some grand philosophy of allowing the voters to decide. We knew it was bullshit then, they just confirmed it now, and their supporters allow it. Our Constitution and country have withstood worse crisises than this.

Every vote does matter, just like every senator and member of congress matters. It's a representative democracy. I'm not certain direct popular vote will create a better country. But if you want to give more power to Texas citizens I guess I should be happy. If the electoral college is flawed isn't the Senate flawed for the same reason?

Once you start unraveling the premise of United *States* you have to rewrite the constitution. That federalism is core to the principals of our Constitution. I can't imagine the fights over election results. Every election will be a repeat of Bush - Gore only nationally as every precinct gets recounted. It also prevents one or two major cases of election fraud from changing the results. Now you would need to coordinate in many states you make a difference. Again, it also forces candidates to at least make a token attempt at covering all 50 states.

Wouldn't it be nice if the coronavirus goes away tomorrow like a dangerous caravan of central Americans bent on destroying America?

By law they can't announce until all the polls close. I believe it was enacted after the Reagan landslide was announced at noon and voter turnout was nil on the west coast.

Where is G-7 when we need him?

And you're not bothered by some of the senators and their hypocrisy?