COMMUNITY 2026 Midterms

Tayboo said:
The shit I've seen online with this Talarico/Crockett primary is giving very much the general election is going to be a clusterfuck. If there was ever a time when Texas was tee'd up for Dems to flip a seat it's now because the candidates for the Republicans are terrible. I'm already seeing Black folks in Texas saying that they are not going to vote in November. That's exactly why we are in the shit show we are now.
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Tayboo said:
The shit I've seen online with this Talarico/Crockett primary is giving very much the general election is going to be a clusterfuck. If there was ever a time when Texas was tee'd up for Dems to flip a seat it's now because the candidates for the Republicans are terrible. I'm already seeing Black folks in Texas saying that they are not going to vote in November. That's exactly why we are in the shit show we are now.
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I see it on Threads, Black Texans are pissed off, Talarico is probably going to lose in November.




 
Mr.LV said:
I see it on Threads, Black Texans are pissed off, Talarico is probably going to lose in November.




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I don't really understand the logic here. Nonblack Texans voted for the nonblack candidate and the black Texans are willing to let everything burn over it?

Is there a particular reason they are so riled up over this? Or is it "You didn't vote for the black woman, so fuck ya'll."
 
I hope her team looks at the autopsy and realize where they went wrong. It seems like she was hoping she'd absolutely dominate the biggest counties and would cruise off of that. Her ground game was lacking, barely spent on TV ads apparently. She didn't even dominate Dallas and Harris Counties like they thought they would. They should have also stressed early voting to avoid the issues that occurred on Election Day
 
The Lonious Monk said:
I don't really understand the logic here. Nonblack Texans voted for the nonblack candidate and the black Texans are willing to let everything burn over it?

Is there a particular reason they are so riled up over this? Or is it "You didn't vote for the black woman, so fuck ya'll."
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I think they're pissed because Talarico didn't do much campaigning in this primary to win over Black voters and honestly Black people especially Black women are tired of being looked over and others acting as if the Black vote is guaranteed.

Edit: to add from what I've seen a lot of reasons why people are saying they voted for Talarico are the same reasons folks said they didn't vote for Harris in 2024...
 
Tayboo said:
I think they're pissed because Talarico didn't do much campaigning in this primary to win over Black voters and honestly Black people especially Black women are tired of being looked over and others acting as if the Black vote is guaranteed.

Edit: to add from what I've seen a lot of reasons why people are saying they voted for Talarico are the same reasons folks said they didn't vote for Harris in 2024...
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I guess I understand that, but honestly, if I was in his position I wouldn't have put much effort into trying to win over black voters either. No matter what he did, he wasn't going to pull a significant portion of the black vote away from a popular black candidate, so why try? His time was better served getting everyone else.
 
This is a good rant on why folks are pissed off.



The Lonious Monk said:
I guess I understand that, but honestly, if I was in his position I wouldn't have put much effort into trying to win over black voters either. No matter what he did, he wasn't going to pull a significant portion of the black vote away from a popular black candidate, so why try? His time was better served getting everyone else.
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Again I think overall a lot of Blacks are frustrated with people not putting in effort to win their votes. Especially when White and Latino voters are fickle as fuck. Some effort should've been made.
 
Tayboo said:
This is a good rant on why folks are pissed off.




Again I think overall a lot of Blacks are frustrated with people not putting in effort to win their votes. Especially when White and Latino voters are fickle as fuck. Some effort should've been made.
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Yeah, I get it. Like I said though, just thinking from a straight efficiency standpoint, him trying to appeal to Black people would have been a waste of time. Black people were going to vote for Crockett no matter what, so him trying to win everyone else was the smart thing to do.

They should be pressing him to win their vote now for the upcoming election not crying about the fact that he didn't try to win their vote in a primary where they all know good and damn well they weren't going to vote for him.
 
Infamous114 said:
Cool, don't vote for Talarico. Go end up with whoever wins the Republican primary instead lol
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Agreed a lot people will come around, but Democrats can't ignore that they too have a racism problem within the party and simply running on the idea that Republicans are worse isn't a winning formula. I hope Talarico is smart enough make some serious effort to win these folks over because ultimately the goal is get enough Dems in Congress to actually check Trump.

I agree with @Los216 though overall Democrats are gonna have a tough ass time if we keep seeing candidates who seem like they don't need to court Black voters.
 
Tayboo said:
Agreed a lot people will come around, but Democrats can't ignore that they too have a racism problem within the party and simply running on the idea that Republicans are worse isn't a winning formula. I hope Talarico is smart enough make some serious effort to win these folks over because ultimately the goal is get enough Dems in Congress to actually check Trump.

I agree with @Los216 though overall Democrats are gonna have a tough ass time if we keep seeing candidates who seem like they don't need to court Black voters.
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He just needs to court Jasmine. That should be objective number 1.
 


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The Lonious Monk said:
I don't really understand the logic here. Nonblack Texans voted for the nonblack candidate and the black Texans are willing to let everything burn over it?

Is there a particular reason they are so riled up over this? Or is it "You didn't vote for the black woman, so fuck ya'll."
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Honestly I'm surprised she did as well as she did. Her fundraising numbers looked like JJ McCarthy's completion stats. People be in they feelings after a big primary fight.

Black political power is shifting around the country in a era where The Great Migration is being reversed.

Yeah, black people don't have the same political power they used to in cities like NYC, LA, Chicago....because black people tired of the bullshit and are moving the fuck up outta there. Either to the burbs or back to The South.

Don't matter what white liberals think because black people will ABSOLUTELY still have final say on who the Presidential nominee is. Period. That's been true since Jimmy fucking Carter and it ain't changing now.
 
Tayboo said:
Agreed a lot people will come around, but Democrats can't ignore that they too have a racism problem within the party and simply running on the idea that Republicans are worse isn't a winning formula. I hope Talarico is smart enough make some serious effort to win these folks over because ultimately the goal is get enough Dems in Congress to actually check Trump.

I agree with @Los216 though overall Democrats are gonna have a tough ass time if we keep seeing candidates who seem like they don't need to court Black voters.
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He seems less confrontation than her but he's also seems more religious. I read he didn't campaign on religion but I'm just not a fan of religion being anywhere near politics
 
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