• iAmTheTot
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    Is that race close? I remember being optimistic before and getting dashed, so I haven’t paid attention to that one this time around.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes, Collin Allred has apparently been hitting out of the park, way better and closer than the last D candidate to get close to unseating Ted Cruz

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        Cruz won over Beto at 2.6%, 538 is projecting Cruz at +4% over Allred. What am I missing?

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          The Iowa poll is the key to this whole thing.

          The Setzer poll tosses out what past elections use as a base for their calculations. She goes off what’s happening now and it’s an extremely reliable poll.

          #VOTE!!

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            I’m going to ask this dumb question in the interest of learning: I understand and agree Setzer is solid at polling Iowa, but what does it have to do with the Texas Senate?

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              Polls are going off old data, not taking in account the new voters, and the Republicans dropped 30 shitty right-wing polls that skewed the data.

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          Can’t really trust the polls, from what I’ve been reading they’ve been overcompensating for the “Trump R factor” not to mention all the shady Republicans polls that keep dumping trash data that are all “Oh yea it’s gonna be a total Trump landslideee!!! Trust me brooo!”

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          Beto didn’t say that during the senate race he said that during the presidential race a few years later