Burnt Orange Report

Hey everyone,

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Scott Goldstein
www.scottforamerica.com

I'm going to name drop, but I have met TWO of the PPF's candidates: Peter Welch was around the office some at DFA back in the summer of '03. Nice guy, but a bit on the conceited side.

I liked Madeline Kunin a lot more.

Sorry, voted for Lampson so we can get rid of DeLay.

So if Courage wins the Progressive (code word for socialist) Patriot Award, does he also get a matching $5,000 from the Democratic Socialists of America? Or MoveOn.org? And maybe a cheer (Yeeaaarrrrggggghhhhh!!!!) led by Howard Dean with a distribution of free Michael "Americans are stupid" Moore documentaries?

Lampson doesn't need the money. $5,000 is a daily take for the Lampson campaign. They have DCCC, DNC, and other established groups supporting them.

DeLay has a target on him and this victory does little to make that huge target any bigger.

However, Lamar Smith started the ball rolling with the intrusive Patriot Act. He has voted for and written copyright and patent legislation that prevents small businesses from expanding and developing and he has done this dozens of times.

Lamar Smith is DeLay’s right hand man, and if we can take them out in a one, two punch, then we can get out the former majority leader and then the man DeLay put on the ethics committee to protect him.

Lampson has support. John Courage actually represents Travis, Hays, Comal, and Bexar county.

Vote for Courage tonight and get rid of Smith.

Not one of the regular wingnuts trolls, but I've got a concern. Is it a problem that Courage always wins these things, since he is by all objective measures is a VERY long shot compared to about 35 other Dem challengers? Is he just winning all of these because he jocks Dean and the DFA so hard? I don't object to him doing that, but it's kind of curious, isn't it?

Also, does anyone know why the 21st had so many more votes cast than any other district in Texas (ay least according to the CNN totals)? Isn't Courage's theory that he can turnout all of the Travis county people who haven't been voting since they got redistricted out of Doggett's district? If that's the case, why did more people cast votes for L. Smith than for both candidates combined in the most expensive house race in the country, the TX 32nd?

Not trying to put down Courage. I'll be doing everything I can to support his campaign as well as all of the other grassroots campaigns up and down I-35 like Harris and Harrell. But this has been puzzling me for a while now.

Texas 21st, Travis County
Lamar Smith - 77976 (50%)
Rhett Smith - 71345 (46%)

Rhett Smith appearently didn't file with the FEC, so for all we know, he didn't spend a thing, but still got 46% in Travis County. In theory, a candidate who spends money can at least win Travis County (which cast 46% of the votes in the TX-21 election in 2004).

I don't know why the turnout differed so much, unless the redistricting was ignoring "One Man One Vote" or something.

If Travis County didn't have a 786 page PDF file for precinct results, it would be much easier to break down the Bush/Kerry results in Travis County by precinct.

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Still seems like Courage will need to find votes in Bexar county or elsewhere. Even if he switches 40K votes in Travis county, and that's akin to an absolute dream scenario, he comes up short without more switches in other counties.

Also, the Travis county numbers seems to confirm that turnout in Travis county was very high. There were nearly as many votes cast in Travis county as in the entire 32nd. So that means there's not much room to improve turnout, and Courage has to get it done with switches. What's the evidence that the 21st isn't just the minority of GOP voters sliced out of Doggett's district and grafted onto Smith's? What evidence is there that these folks are likely to switch, other than, I guess, that constituent meeting this fall where Smith got screamed at--an encouraging sign, but not really a good measure of the county's or the district's preferences.