Lina Hidalgo clinging to 1-pt lead against GOP's Alexandra del Moral Mealer (O'Donnell: high crime, discount)

[SanJac]

And the Houston Chronicle just recommended Beto O'Rourke for governor...

[crone]

Originally Posted by oil capital

Here's what I could find relatively quickly. The Cypress Creek courthouse annex was built in 1977, when Commissioners Court was controlled 3-2 by Democrats. Jon Lindsay did not become County Judge until 1975. That would have been remarkably fast action if he came into office talking about acquiring this string of pearls, identified the property, acquired the property, and built and opened a courthouse on the property all in just over 2 years.

IMO, Lindsay did not become county judge the day after he fell from a turnip truck. All that construction off 1960 indicated the creek would encounter flooding.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

While journalists being horrible data analysts is bad, I put the bigger blame on misinformation on the people. No one does their cares about data anymore. Republican, Democrat or independent.

Al sides also take one incident and use it to justify their belief that 'XYZ needs to be stopped", conveniently forgetting the 50,000 times nothing happened.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by WRM20

Al sides also take one incident and use it to justify their belief that 'XYZ needs to be stopped", conveniently forgetting the 50,000 times nothing happened.

Disagree,
there's only one side that every single election takes 2 issues and says
"The World is going to end if this 2 things keep on happening .... vote for me"

[oil capital]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Disagree,
there's only one side that every single election takes 2 issues and says
"The World is going to end if this 2 things keep on happening .... vote for me"

OMG, you cannot seriously believe that.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Disagree,
there's only one side that every single election takes 2 issues and says
"The World is going to end if this 2 things keep on happening .... vote for me"

I can’t quite buy into that. Granted the GOP plays the fear card a lot more but the Dems are pretty bad about using hyperbole just in a different way.

[utche96]

Originally Posted by oil capital

OMG, you cannot seriously believe that.

I literally laughed out loud at that post. There were Dems literally claiming the world will end in 12 years due to climate change (that was 3 years ago so I guess we only have 9 years left!).

[Mr. Clutch]

Originally Posted by utche96

I literally laughed out loud at that post. There were Dems literally claiming the world will end in 12 years due to climate change (that was 3 years ago so I guess we only have 9 years left!).

And there's been Republicans exclaiming that the country will be over if Obama was elected. Or the ACA was passed. Or illegal immigration isn't stopped in its tracks. Or any other number of things. Yet we're still here.

Hyperbole is used by both parties, and it sucks royally because there's very little I hate more than hyperbole.

[utche96]

Originally Posted by Mr. Clutch

Hyperbole is used by both parties

I think most reasonable people agree with that. I was laughing at the one poster that seems to think its a Republican only issue.

[SanJac]

Unbiased article in the Texas Tribune.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10...aler-election/

I thought the following excerpts were interesting: “I would say she’s a narrow favorite to win,” Keir Murray, a Houston Democratic strategist, said of Hidalgo. “I think more likely than not she will prevail, but it’s not a guarantee by any stretch of the imagination.”

They (Republicans) are increasingly treating their bid to unseat Hidalgo as a last stand. If they fail to retake the seat, they fear it could be curtains for them in the state’s most populous county — Harris residents account for 16% of the state’s population — and that could make it harder to maintain their hold on statewide power.

“There’s a feeling that we’re the firewall here in Harris County to make sure Texas doesn’t go blue,” said Cindy Siegel, Harris County’s Republican Party chair. “That’s why I think there is this feeling that ‘This is it.’”