Beto O'Rourke's voting record is more conservative than the average Democrat's

[Awsi Dooger]

19. Beto is my first choice and Klobuchar second

I didn't look at voting records. I have lived in swing states Nevada and Florida and understand what people prioritize and how they vote. We can be wonderfully pure and throw away one winnable race after another, like Andrew Gillum instead of Gwen Graham last year in Florida. I'm not going to let that go because it is perfectly representative of what we might be stupid enough to accomplish in 2020.

The Ted Cruz reference is like a litmus test of flunking basic politics. Every time I see that loss mentioned I'm wondering...do they really want to depict themselves that way? Ted Cruz had a 50-48 positive approval rating in that 2018 Texas exit poll. He's running in a midterm in a state with not only 43-44% self-identified conservatives, but 35% who list themselves as extreme conservatives.

Only a dolt thinks Beto should have won that race, or it is a stain against him. I would bet over 7% margin of defeat if any of our other presidential candidates had faced Cruz in 2018. I might lose one or two narrowly, but that is hardly a certainty. The majority would be double digit defeats.