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Ted Cruz gets bad news in Texas Senate race
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as a non-american, that is fun fact to me, but it was just because the texans couldn't be bothered to vote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas
If that was the whole story, I would agree with you...but there has been a 30-year campaign of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and general fuckery that causes that number to be so low. In the 2020 election at the height of covid, Greg "piss baby" Abbott limited ballot drop-off locations to one. In smaller, traditionally more republican counties this wasn't as bad for them...but they did this for Harris County... a very blue county with millions of residents. Texas doesn't have drop-off boxes for absentee ballots, as some states do. Instead, to drop off a mail-in ballot in person at any location, voters must present an approved form of ID to a poll worker, and voters can't turn in any one else's ballot... sick gramma? fuck you drag her here to drop that shit off. Did they sue? you bet they did. did they lose? you bet they did because Texas has been fucked by the right for the last 30 years.
Six percent seems winnable to me. Now that abortion is illegal, I hope that Hispanics will stop voting against their financial and deportation interests. I also hope that Republican women might have second thoughts about being forced to carry their rapists baby to term and will want access to IVF when they are making choices in the ballot booth. Religious minorities ought to be voting against enforced Christianity in public spaces such as schools.
Voter suppression is real though. Additionally, many people feel disenfranchised because of the perception of an insurmountable majority. Biden is not helping turnout with unconditional support for the genocidal Israeli administration either.
i understand what you are saying, but here is the thing: you can hope for all these things and you can hope they will be enough in spite of having bad candidate, or you can have all these things and they can work in concerto with good one.
one of these options is clearly superior to the other and knowing what's at stake i don't sea a reason to settle up for the subpar option.