{"id":5836,"date":"2011-04-18T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2011-04-18T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:09:27","slug":"texas-2012-senate-race-updates-for-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5836","title":{"rendered":"Texas 2012 Senate Race Updates for April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
  • Texas Iconoclast examines Ricardo Sanchez’s chances<\/a>.\n
  • Paul Burka doesn’t think any Democrat has a chance<\/a>:
    \n

    Patty Murray\u2019s explanation for why she thinks Texas might be in play is \u201cdemographic change.\u201d We have been hearing that line for many years now, and there is no evidence that demographic change has changed voting patterns. Democrats make the mistake of looking at Hispanic participation in California, in Colorado, in Arizona, in New Mexico, and thinking that Texas could be just like those states. I disagree. Hispanics in those states are alienated. Angry people vote. Hispanics in Texas are not alienated. Unless the Democrats have some pretty good polling that shows the Republicans are overreaching with their budget cuts\u2013and I doubt that they do\u2013they should continue to regard Texas as a lost cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  • National first quarter fundraising winners and losers from both the Washington Post<\/i><\/a> and Hotline on Call<\/a>. I’ve been checking the FEC site regularly, and the numbers for Texas Senate candidates (beyond the withdrawn Florence Shapiro) still aren’t up yet.\n
  • Moe Lane on Sanchez<\/a>:
    \n

    If Sanchez runs as a Democrat, the groups that would have been most likely to push for further investigation at this late date\u2013the antiwar Left\u2013will not be interested in pursuing the issue. The antiwar Left will, in fact, enthusiastically support the man who was their head devil in their designated Hell on Earth…because to do otherwise would be to show some elementary sense of self-worth and dignity, and the antiwar Left has neither. So\u2013when your Democratic masters get around to picking your candidate for you\u2013go ahead and endorse Sanchez, ye progressives. Get on the floor and lick those boots. Not that Sanchez will win, anyway; 2012 will be a bad year for a Democrat in Texas. But it\u2019s always fun to watch the antiwar movement futilely beat its own \u2018principles\u2019 to death on command for the benefit of their masters. You\u2019d think that it\u2019d get old eventually, but no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  • Over at Wired<\/i>, Spencer Ackerman is also not enthused about Sanchez<\/a>.\n
  • Article on the Waco Tea Party event<\/a>, including snippets from Michael Williams’ speech.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Texas Iconoclast examines Ricardo Sanchez’s chances. Paul Burka doesn’t think any Democrat has a chance: Patty Murray\u2019s explanation for why she thinks Texas might be in play is \u201cdemographic change.\u201d We have been hearing that line for many years now, and there is no evidence that demographic change has changed voting patterns. Democrats make the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,18,12],"tags":[928,1104,2864,2862,1109,946,1107,2865,1105,1108,245,2861,945],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-abu-ghraib","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-fundraising","tag-michael-williams","tag-paul-burka","tag-republicans","tag-ricardo-sanchez","tag-spencer-ackerman","tag-tea-party","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}