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Old 06-25-2016, 03:01 PM
 
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There are 125,000 signatures on a petition to secede. Texas has a population of 27 MILLION people. That's a minuscule percentage of the population of Texas
This one has over a quarter million and odds are, Texas will have a vote at some point. They've been screaming for one too long. They consider Texas uniquely able to leave the United States and they want to do it. How many other states started screaming about it after Brexit? How many immediately launched a Twitter hashtag like #Texit? This is just something Texas does and there's no denying it.

Pledge Your Vote For Texas Independence

I just want to keep Texans in Texas and as a true patriot <insert lone star flag pin> you should too.

 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:15 PM
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There are 125,000 signatures on a petition to secede. Texas has a population of 27 MILLION people. That's a minuscule percentage of the population of Texas
Texans don't vote in large numbers.

How Ted Cruz Won His Senate Seat With Just 632,000 Votes in a State of 27 Million

We really shouldn't roll the dice on this. We don't know what we'll get.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:17 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Originally Posted by Seacove View Post
This one has over a quarter million and odds are, Texas will have a vote at some point. They've been screaming for one too long. They consider Texas uniquely able to leave the United States and they want to do it. How many other states started screaming about it after Brexit? How many immediately launched a Twitter hashtag like #Texit? This is just something Texas does and there's no denying it.

Pledge Your Vote For Texas Independence

I just want to keep Texans in Texas and as a true patriot <insert lone star flag pin> you should too.
Just because you read something on the internet, doesn't make it true. You do know that the article you're quoting is from the "Texas Nationalist Movement," which is hardly an unbiased source.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Texans don't vote in large numbers.

How Ted Cruz Won His Senate Seat With Just 632,000 Votes in a State of 27 Million

We really shouldn't roll the dice on this. We don't know what we'll get.
People need to get out and vote, I guess. I vote in every election. I don't know what everyone else is doing. Eating Tex Mex food, maybe?
 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:36 PM
 
Location: Dallas,TX
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Originally Posted by Bo View Post
Texans don't vote in large numbers.

How Ted Cruz Won His Senate Seat With Just 632,000 Votes in a State of 27 Million

We really shouldn't roll the dice on this. We don't know what we'll get.
The article is misleading. He got those voters in a primary. He won his senate seat, sadly, with around 4.4 million votes in an election with a voter turnout of 50%.

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Originally Posted by Seacove View Post
This one has over a quarter million and odds are, Texas will have a vote at some point. They've been screaming for one too long. They consider Texas uniquely able to leave the United States and they want to do it. How many other states started screaming about it after Brexit? How many immediately launched a Twitter hashtag like #Texit? This is just something Texas does and there's no denying it.

Pledge Your Vote For Texas Independence

I just want to keep Texans in Texas and as a true patriot <insert lone star flag pin> you should too.
Please, the texit tag was just people joking. If you don't like Texas, stay out of our forum - stay in Washington. That's all you have to do. You don't have to be extra.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Chisago Lakes, Minnesota
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The article is misleading. He got those voters in a primary. He won his senate seat, sadly, with around 4.4 million votes in an election with a voter turnout of 50%.



Please, the texit tag was just people joking. If you don't like Texas, stay out of our forum - stay in Washington. That's all you have to do. You don't have to be extra.
Yeah, he's up there in that awesome, beautiful, wonderful place and all he can find to do on a Saturday afternoon is troll the CD TX forum. Really tells you all you need to know.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:46 PM
 
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Please, the texit tag was just people joking. If you don't like Texas, stay out of our forum - stay in Washington. That's all you have to do. You don't have to be extra.
I would be happy to if Texans would stay out of Washington. Since Texas is once again beating that secede drum, I am showing my support for your departure. I am not the OP. And there is another thread in POC where I am also not the OP. You seem to be in denial.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 03:50 PM
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Location: Ohio
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The article is misleading. He got those voters in a primary. He won his senate seat, sadly, with around 4.4 million votes in an election with a voter turnout of 50%.
Worse than that. He got those votes in a primary runoff, in August, when there was nothing else on the statewide ballot. But the comparison is apropos, because the secession vote could also happen in a low-turnout special election. There's no requirement that it be linked to a particular election cycle.

Note that the runoff primary that nominated Cruz determined the outcome in the general election, because Texas hasn't elected a Democrat to the US Senate since 1988. Based on margins of victory in general/statewide elections, that trend doesn't seem to be changing.

It's really not a laughing matter and it shouldn't be taken lightly.
 
Old 06-25-2016, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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LOL @ the dupes who see a handful of crackpots here & there trying to make some noise on the internet or TV. The last bunch of "Texas secessionists" that made some desperate news filler was a dozen or so idiots led by a carpetbagger redneck from Missouri. I think they met in a honkytonk beer joint now & then.

None of our governors have "threatened" secession - that's just a fantasy conjured up by fools when someone asked that Perry idjit if it was possible, then blew his comment up into something it wasn't. Anything is possible, including Hillary actually telling the truth, but it ain't gonna happen unless there's some kind of catastrophic Armageddon.

260,000 calling for secession on an Internet site? Another LOL - I've signed similar petitions for Quebec and Scotland years ago.

The first Americans who actually threatened secession were Yankees from Bernie's neck of the woods - read up on the Hartford Convention.
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