Ken Paxton is Texas Toast

      For once, the pollsters were right. In the runup to last night's runoff election, they said Paxton had as much as a 21 point lead over John Cornyn.

 

     As you can see, Paxton won by 27.8%, proving once again that Texas voters are the stupidest ones on the planet. This tees up a November 3rd general election face-off between Paxton and James Talarico.

     Democrats who know how to read the tea leaves were salivating over the prospect of a Paxton-Talarico match up and for good reason. You could've lived in a cave these past six or seven years and still known about the stench of corruption that wafts in billows from Ken Paxton's pores. He used the TX AG's office to sue other states that didn't go for Trump in 2020. He was impeached by the TX House for corruption and, like Trump, he avoided being thrown out of office by other crooked, scumbag Republicans in the Senate.

     His own ex wife, one of those Texas state senators, divorced him immediately thereafter on account of him not being able to keep it in his pants, or what she called "Biblical reasons" (Read: adultery).

     But from a purely numerical standpoint, Democrats are hopeful to flip a Senate seat that hasn't been owned by Democrats since 1988. Paxton is that weak. Despite his resounding victory in last night's runoff, Paxton still took in fewer than 900,000 votes in the country's second-largest state by population. Talarico, on the other hand, in the earlier Democratic primary, collected 1.2 million. And that was in just a primary.

     Even Jasmine Crockett got over a million votes.

     And, are Texas voters going to vote for Paxton a third time? Never underestimate the power of voter fatigue.

     Plus, Paxton is a notoriously weak fundraiser (except when lining his own pockets: Even though he's still drawing a government salary, Paxton's personal wealth has ballooned to over $12,000,000 since getting elected AG).

      Now, I'm not a big fan of Talarico and its going to take a fuck of a lot more than him attaching a capital D after his name to get me to sing his priases. Talarico, a guy who looks less like a potential US senator and more like a hyper-realistic, exquisitely-made ventriloquist dummy, is what I call a radical centrist. But he, and Texas, represents one of the most realistic hopes that Democrats have of flipping a red seat blue (the others being Maine and North Carolina among others). Plus, in just three months, Talarico raked in $27,000,000, which is high even by today's standards.

     Prediction: Talarico wins by at least 9-10 points.