How Susan Wright's Campaign Knew She Would Lose

[applegrove]

How Susan Wright’s Campaign Knew She Would Lose

July 31, 2021 at 12:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 127 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/31/how-susan-wrights-campaign-knew-she-would-lose/

"SNIP.....

Texas Tribune: “Susan Wright’s campaign had reasons to feel good Tuesday morning, coming off a tele-rally with former President Donald Trump the night before and armed with internal polling showing she had a comfortable lead over her fellow Republican opponent. But anxiety set in as the day went on and her campaign saw higher-than-expected turnout. Then, a couple hours before polls closed, her consultant, Matt Langston, got a call.”

“It was from a campaign worker at a polling place, and they said the kinds of voters who were showing up had ‘definitely changed.’ How do you know that? Langston asked.”

Said the worker: “Because they’re all wearing masks.”

......SNIP"

[ProfessorGAC]

1. The Texas Tribune Article Is Good

This is a race I barely knew about, now I think I know quite a but.

[bottomofthehill]

2. Not that high brow, intellectual mask wearing crowd...

They new they were fucked because non death cult members were coming to vote.

[magicarpet]

3. The late voters did not have swastikas tattooed on their foreheads,....that was an indication,...

.....we might lose because the late voters were not Nazis.

[applegrove]

4. Or they were the base who had realized the GOP wanted them dead and

so they thought and put on a mask for the first time.

[Upthevibe]

5. Kick....n/t

[NJCher]

6. Hah!

The last two paragraphs of the OP had me guffawing.

Have you ever seen a woman guffaw?

Well, you've seen BWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHAAA.

Same thing.

[ananda]

7. A lot of Dems voted for her opponent.

Interesting to say the least.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. they may have been Democrats

This was a runoff from a special election, so the original election was just a list of Republicans and Democrats, not a primary.
I may be wrong here but since that was not a regular primary, Democrats may have been able to vote in this run off. That would explain the masking.

I heard this morning that the winner was a more moderate Republican.

In a runoff for a regular primary, anyone who did not vote for the other party in the primary can vote in the runoff.

If there had only been one Democrat in the special election, there would have been one of each in the runoff. There were 8 Democrats so the vote was split 8 ways. If Jana had been the only Democrat she could have had an additional 3000 to 5000 votes. I don't know what the State Party was thinking to let all those people file for that race.

[LeftInTX]

9. Yes, anyone can vote in special election runoffs

They don't have the same rules as primary runoffs.

No record is kept of which party someone is voting for in a special election, so they don't have the same rule as a primary runoff.

[summer_in_TX]

12. In Texas voters don't register by party.

When they vote in a primary, they choose a party which is then stamped on their voter ID card. If there's a primary runoff, if they voted in a particular party, they have to stick they to that one.

New year, new voter ID cards, no primary until next year, so they aren't members of a political party at all, supposedly.



As soon as I heard that a moderate R won, I had a suspicion. Too bad the GOP isn't wising up.

[BadGimp]

10. "Because they're all wearing masks."

What a great line.... and so very telling.

great post!

[lagomorph777]

11. LOL! "Uh-oh, where are my idiots?"