That spending may not have resulted in the intended outcome, but its influence was very real. As a person living in Texas getting not quite a dozen texts and postal mailers every single day I absolutely felt the influence. If it wasn't for this constant reminder continually reinforcing the failures and non-issues from a single party I don't think I would have felt as strongly about voting as I did.
You have to understand Texas received almost as political spending as the rest of the country combined. The result is that Texas flipped in a historically significant manner. Every single state-wide race was won by the Democrats and the Democrats did not win in every county, but they did have positive influence in every single one of the state's 254 counties. None of the polls predicted anything close to this.
Tarrant county was the largest Republican county in the country, and that is gone. Democrats won every campaign in the county except for one US congressional seat.
It is also important to note that Texas Republicans received the same number of votes as they did in 2024, but the total vote was something like 1.5-2 million votes higher than 2024 with all that increase going to the Democrats. Yes, Texas is growing its population super fast, but that vote increase is more than the population increase.
Yup, Cubans are keeping it Red, and will always fight to keep it Red. Trump should actually pay more attention to Rubio and the Red Florida Cubans because 2028 is the year in which the direction the world will take will be decided.
I foresee Communism spreading throughout the US and the rest of the world, if there is another Blue Wave.
Democrats may have gained seats but they don't have a majority to block a veto by the Executive branch, unless RHINOs help. On the other hand the Executive branch will not be able to pass any measures they want without the cooperation of both houses, unless DINOs help. This is basically a stalemate which means that everybody needs to work together to get stuff done or get nothing done. Classic check & balances, I suppose.
They have enough to eliminate the Electoral College and to pack the Supreme Court. Current president is out of office in two years no matter what, and is already beyond male life expectancy.
I don't think a day on Bondi in budgie smugglers is going to roll back decades of Trumpian fast food indulgence, but by all means send him over - I doubt he'll last too long and exit in a hurry, Australians aren't backwards in coming forward about shortcomings of glorious leader types.
After all he has proven to be a complete failure at getting his own promised political party off the ground.
Complete failure and Musk, undeniably in the same sentence whether it's actually always been true or not.
Well he should have known better with his unmatched inside experience.
Anyway, regardless of how long he's been visiting Texas, it shouldn't take 4 generations to know what it was like if Sam Houston was still running the place, the Texas Rangers would have been putting the handcuffs on Paxton and Abbott a long time ago.
I donated $50 every month for the last six months to Talarico and Ossoff, one of them Ossoff has a real good chance of being the next president. The Democrats seem to have elected several people that just might have a chance of going further than just being a senator or a governor.
> good chance Musk's backing increased Democrats' margins
I don't think Musk was even relevant in that it being Musk specifically.
In the post election analyses only a few stories are looking at how it was done. People didnt simply go to the polls and blindly vote Democrat. Look at the candidates and the platform they ran on, they all sidestepped culture war distractions, they didnt lean into divisiveness or the childish name calling -- no one wants to listen to that shit anymore. Even the victory speeches in Texas were about Texas and working for Texans. Same for the guy in Kansa and the ones in Iowa. They got back to real interaction with real people in the real world.
Oh and ICE killing a US citizen in south texas and covering it up for a year, then killing a Mexican citizen (who was in the process of immigrating) and then wildly lying about it -- among other things like raiding US citizen small businesses because the owners look Mexican -- doesn't win a lot of votes for the party doing it. They woke up the non-voting US citizen latino/hispanic population in Texas and other places.
That spending may not have resulted in the intended outcome, but its influence was very real. As a person living in Texas getting not quite a dozen texts and postal mailers every single day I absolutely felt the influence. If it wasn't for this constant reminder continually reinforcing the failures and non-issues from a single party I don't think I would have felt as strongly about voting as I did.
You have to understand Texas received almost as political spending as the rest of the country combined. The result is that Texas flipped in a historically significant manner. Every single state-wide race was won by the Democrats and the Democrats did not win in every county, but they did have positive influence in every single one of the state's 254 counties. None of the polls predicted anything close to this.
Tarrant county was the largest Republican county in the country, and that is gone. Democrats won every campaign in the county except for one US congressional seat.
It is also important to note that Texas Republicans received the same number of votes as they did in 2024, but the total vote was something like 1.5-2 million votes higher than 2024 with all that increase going to the Democrats. Yes, Texas is growing its population super fast, but that vote increase is more than the population increase.
Elon moved to Texas just to die it blue, the final boss of titration, haha
4th gen Texan. My grandfather rolls in his grave. Louisiana and Florida still red, may just sell out and go to greener pastures..
Don't pollute the other states. Putin's Russia might welcome you.
The Cubans are keeping it red. But I think that’s gonna change. I don’t like his politics but Ricky Rubio should have stayed far away from Trump.
Yup, Cubans are keeping it Red, and will always fight to keep it Red. Trump should actually pay more attention to Rubio and the Red Florida Cubans because 2028 is the year in which the direction the world will take will be decided.
I foresee Communism spreading throughout the US and the rest of the world, if there is another Blue Wave.
Thanks to this last blue wave, that scenario may have started: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/migrant-caravan-bets-on...
Democrats may have gained seats but they don't have a majority to block a veto by the Executive branch, unless RHINOs help. On the other hand the Executive branch will not be able to pass any measures they want without the cooperation of both houses, unless DINOs help. This is basically a stalemate which means that everybody needs to work together to get stuff done or get nothing done. Classic check & balances, I suppose.
They have enough to eliminate the Electoral College and to pack the Supreme Court. Current president is out of office in two years no matter what, and is already beyond male life expectancy.
... already beyond _USofA_ male life expectancy.
He's still shy of, say, Australian male life expectancy.
Ship him to Australia, I suppose? I don’t think they’ll have him, if I’m being frank.
I don't think a day on Bondi in budgie smugglers is going to roll back decades of Trumpian fast food indulgence, but by all means send him over - I doubt he'll last too long and exit in a hurry, Australians aren't backwards in coming forward about shortcomings of glorious leader types.
One less Republican voting in Texas next election, the Democratic party thanks you for your contribution!
Cool. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Musk has got to be misguided about this.
After all he has proven to be a complete failure at getting his own promised political party off the ground.
Complete failure and Musk, undeniably in the same sentence whether it's actually always been true or not.
Well he should have known better with his unmatched inside experience.
Anyway, regardless of how long he's been visiting Texas, it shouldn't take 4 generations to know what it was like if Sam Houston was still running the place, the Texas Rangers would have been putting the handcuffs on Paxton and Abbott a long time ago.
I donated $50 every month for the last six months to Talarico and Ossoff, one of them Ossoff has a real good chance of being the next president. The Democrats seem to have elected several people that just might have a chance of going further than just being a senator or a governor.
"Of the 43 candidates for the House of Representatives supported by the businessman, only three won, while 33 lost their races. "
Discussions yesterday:
BBC Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterm (52 points, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369201
Wired Voters Set $400M of Elon Musk's Money on Fire (18 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368522
Nobody knows how much they would have lose even more without that half billion.
At least in Texas, there is a good chance Musk's backing increased Democrats' margins.
> good chance Musk's backing increased Democrats' margins
I don't think Musk was even relevant in that it being Musk specifically.
In the post election analyses only a few stories are looking at how it was done. People didnt simply go to the polls and blindly vote Democrat. Look at the candidates and the platform they ran on, they all sidestepped culture war distractions, they didnt lean into divisiveness or the childish name calling -- no one wants to listen to that shit anymore. Even the victory speeches in Texas were about Texas and working for Texans. Same for the guy in Kansa and the ones in Iowa. They got back to real interaction with real people in the real world.
Oh and ICE killing a US citizen in south texas and covering it up for a year, then killing a Mexican citizen (who was in the process of immigrating) and then wildly lying about it -- among other things like raiding US citizen small businesses because the owners look Mexican -- doesn't win a lot of votes for the party doing it. They woke up the non-voting US citizen latino/hispanic population in Texas and other places.
also deleting half a billion of his tweets too