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Amanda Edwards joins the Senate race


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  1. General Grant says:

    This will be an interesting science experiment. In the modern Democratic Party, how many demographic identity boxes need to be checked to overcome a corporatist background and a generic message? From her comments, Edwards is hypothesizing that the answer is three.

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  3. Tom in Lazybrook says:

    In order to effect change, you have to get elected first. Those who believe that working for a corporation makes one somehow unqualified to be US Senator have not sold that argument.

    Texas is not a blue state, it is historically a profoundly red state that might, just might, given the right political environment and messaging, vote for a Democrat.

    Many Democrats, myself included, see removing Cornyn as the most important thing in the race. And will decide on a candidate in the Democratic primary based upon that.

    For me, I have some minimum requirements as to policy, but the bigger issue is…can the candidate beat Cornyn?

    In a state where 60 percent of the voters are over 45 and 75 percent of voters self identify as either moderate/centrist or conservative, I dont see a candidate that cannot appeal to centrists as being viable. A full on Bernie Bro/Jill Stein/Tulsi style candidate will have a much harder time winning. Change the dynamics of voting and Texas and change the strategy.

    This election will be determined by turnout in liberal urban centers but ALSO by moderate voters in the suburbs. The Dems have to win Tarrant and do well in places like Williamson, Hays, Brazoria, and Collin to win statewide.

    Edwards, Bell, West, Hagar, etc., are not perfect, but I see a path to victory for each of them. All of them can be accused of not being ideologically pure. I dont really care at this point. I want Cornyn tossed from the Senate by a Democrat.

    Who do you support and how do you see their path to victory? How much money does your candidate need to raise to be viable and how do you propose to raise it? The Citizens United ruling, which I oppose, will be in full effect this cycle and Cornyn will raise 9 figures.

    The diehard (not all) Bernie or Bust / Jill Stein folks will always find a reason to not vote for the Democrat. So theres no point in pandering to them. We need to keep all of Betos voters and find 750,000 new ones to beat Cornyn.

    So who are you supporting?

  4. Mainstream says:

    I will be supporting Cornyn, but I think the Ivy League educated Edwards has a shot at persuading independent suburban women, and that Sen. West does not.

  5. Bill Daniels says:

    Frankly, I can’t see that it matters WHO the candidate is. The ONLY issue is, do you like having conservative, Federalist Society judges appointed or not? If you do, you aren’t voting against Cornyn, no matter who the candidate is. If you DON’T want conservative judges and you think there’s really no way RBG doesn’t kick in the next 6 years, you vote for any (D) that makes it to the general, even if it’s, as Pelosi puts it, a glass of water.

    Every single Senate campaign nationwide is about this one thing.

    I’m not a huge fan of Cornyn, and I wish he’d get primaried, frankly, but since he’s the candidate, I want Trump’s judge picks so that’s that. I’m voting Cornyn.

  6. General Grant says:


    I actually don’t disagree with you (except that part about Chris Bell having a path to victory). My point is simply that the Democratic Party right now is very focused on demographic identity and the Opposition to corporations/millionaires/billionaires/establishment types. Edwards excels in her appeal to one side of this and not to the other.

    Edwards agrees with me on this point too, which is why her rhetoric is the way it is. She very much wants primary voters to focus on who she is and not so much what she’s done.

    As for the general election no matter who they nominate the race will almost certainly decided by the Presidential race. There is not going to be much ticket splitting at all.