usernamesAreTricky comments on Oh my god. Texas is going fully blue. I'm so fucking happy and finally hopeful for the future of my state.

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

You may want to update your priors, the Texas state house and state senate actually are looking looking like they might flip. Some deep red state house and senate districts have flipped already

The shift towards Talarico was insane and is moving things down ballot

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[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Eh, I've been watching the live results on the tribune and there are a lot of republican won races with 99% of the vote in that just haven't been called yet. Maybe you'll be right though, I hope so.

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago* (6 children)

Sure, but many of those aren't necessary to flip. For something more concrete Erin Reed's has put Texas House District 14 as a potential tipping point. It was R+21 in the past, it's currently sitting at D+0.5 with >99% of the vote in

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[–] speedythefirst@lemmy.zip [S] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Current result as of now. (I know, fuck WaPo but they had the most up-to-date reporting I saw.)

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

A shame for the Texas state senate, but state house still looks like it can still flip. In any case, all a significant shift even if neither flips considering the hope was to just narrow the margins a bit not to get close to a flip

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[–] speedythefirst@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's really huge. There are now opportunities to expand the party reach in the next two years. We won't go back to complete Republican dominance for at least the next decade, maybe more.

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[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

As of 3pm CST, the house flipped, the senate did not. Like I was expecting the state wide races to flip, but not in my wildest dreams did I expect the house to. My gasts are flabbered.

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[–] speedythefirst@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 2 days ago*

I can hardly believe it. I'll be living in a blue state come January. Holy shit.

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 days ago

only half the state senate was in play. they do things a little weird. they're all up in years ending in '2'.. then every two years: half, then the other half, then the first half, then the second half, then them all again during the next year that ends in '2'

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