• DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    46·
    16 days ago

    Fun fact: a used condom hanging from a tree branch by the interstate has more rigidity than Ted Cruz’s spine.

    It has also been said that it smells better than Ted’s soft teeth.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
      7·
      16 days ago

      At least Allred was able to pull in some Republicans that voted foe Trump.

      Last I checked, Cruz has 200,000 less votes than Trump and Allred had 100,000 votes more than Harris.

      It’s so disappointing that Allred is behind by 1,000,000 votes, which is close to the number of voters purged IIRC.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    26·
    16 days ago

    My wife and I did our part. Now if USPS Express Mail would deliver our ballots, that would be great.

    UPDATE:

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      16 days ago

      At this point i’m convinced the USPS has been sabotaged to disrupt mail in voting.

      I’ve had a piece of registered mail go missing just one month ago despite the tracking… I had a small package shipped from NJ end up in Iowa for some reason just yesterday, despite the destination being Boston.

      The USPS is in a really poor place with all the private competition taking the lucrative package shipments. It’s a shame we basically let them out to dry and accept service level decreases year after year so that we don’t have to fund it at all with taxes. IMO there should be a fee levied for every package shipped by third party delivery services that benefits the USPS because mail is simply too important to all aspects of a country to forsake.

      • STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world
        18·
        16 days ago

        At this point i’m convinced the USPS has been sabotaged to disrupt mail in voting.

        Yep, that’s a pretty big chunk of it. Most of it’s just a typical right-wing grift though, privatizing public services in the name of “cost savings”.

        Louis DeJoy is the current postmaster general, appointed by Trump in 2020. DeJoy also just so happens to be the founder and former CEO of XPO Logistics, a company that still has active contracts with the USPS to this day.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 days ago

        I checked and my UT mail in was counted, though washed away by all the red Mormons, but I absolutely suspect foul play with that orange cunt leading

  • iAmTheTot
    10·
    16 days ago

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

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      211·
      16 days 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

      • CaptDust
        10·
        16 days ago

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

        • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
          8·
          16 days ago

          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!!

          • CaptDust
            9·
            16 days ago

            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?

            • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
              61·
              16 days ago

              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.

          • CaptDust
            2·
            16 days ago

            Cruz with a 10% lead, lol. Texans like it, I guess.

            • njm1314@lemmy.world
              4·
              16 days ago

              Same as 2022. I’ve been saying for months that Allred was running the wrong kind of campaign. For all of his flaws Beto O’Rourke did better than any Democrat has in like the last 30 years. Instead of following that strategy of high energy and high engagement Allred ran a low energy passive campaign that spent all this energy targeting Republican and moderate voters. Insanity. In essence he ran the same tired Texas democratic party campaign as everyone else who gets their ass kicked in this state does.

        • cm0002@lemmy.world
          31·
          16 days ago

          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!”

        • njm1314@lemmy.world
          10·
          16 days ago

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