Tag Archives: 2014 Election

Battleground Texas Pledges We’ll Be Able To Kick Them Around Some More in 2016

Battleground Texas says we’ll have it to kick around in 2016: The head of Battleground Texas is telling supporters that despite an Election Day-shellacking, the group plans to stay put for the next round of elections in 2016. In a … Continue reading →

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And Here Come the Wendy Davis Campaign Recriminations!

You don’t have such a high profile campaign flame-out as Wendy Davis for Governor without either some spectacular mismanagement within the ranks of the campaign, or a truly abysmal performance by the candidate themselves. While Wendy Davis certainly turned in … Continue reading →

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More Post-Election Tidbits

A few more bits of 2014 election analysis: Instapundit offers up six bills a Republican congress should pass. Can’t disagree with any of them. How the Obama years have hollowed out the Democratic Party. “The more serious problem for Democrats … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for November 7, 2014

A Friday LinkSwarm after a very eventful week… So exactly when was it that the UK became the child rape capital of the Western world? First Rotherham, now Manchester. Government of Burkina Faso falls. Evidently people there thought that 27 … Continue reading →

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Two Dissections of Democrats’ Failure to Turn Texas Blue

Enjoy these two moderately lengthy dissections of liberal failures to turn Texas blue: First, here’s this Jay Root/Texas Tribune piece by way of the Washington Post on why Wendy Davis lost the election. The piece soft-peddles Davis’ incompetence as a … Continue reading →

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Texas Statewide Race Oddities

With all the votes in, we can start analyzing some of odder aspects of the Texas statewide race results. For those watching the race, it’s no surprise that (discounting 2006’s strange four-way race) Wendy Davis was the worst-performing Democratic gubernatorial … Continue reading →

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Midday Post-Election Roundup

A few quick post-election links: Here’s a really solid Washington Post insider piece on how Republicans won, and Democrats lost, the election. “From the outset of the campaign, Republicans had a simple plan: Don’t make mistakes, and make it all … Continue reading →

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Brief Blurbs on a Brilliant Bloodbath

Democrats didn’t just lose last night, they got slaughtered up and down the ballot: Republicans took control of the Senate, flipping seven Senate seats in North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Iowa, giving them 52 and control … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging Election Night 2014

This is what a wave looks like. http://t.co/oj8q1BBpjR #Election2014 pic.twitter.com/MSxThYaH1D — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) November 5, 2014 Davis is currently at 38.1%. Just for the record, I called Wendy Davis dropping below Tony Sanchez’s 39.96% back in September. Back In … Continue reading →

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Go Vote!

Williamson County voting information. Travis County polling locations. I hope to live tweet/live blog election results tonight.

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