Dollars didn’t make Texas blue… again - American Thinker https://t.co/WUHfQ9WMfU
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 12, 2024
Another Texas election and a bunch of Democrats asking: Why didn’t money and TV ads persuade Texas? After all, our TV screens were bombarded with anti-Cruz abortion ads. We were also constantly reminded that President Trump is a felon who led an insurrection to overthrow the U.S. government. In the end, Trump and Cruz won easily, and the Democrat party state chairman resigned.
The blue wave didn’t hit Texas. What happened?
Well, let’s start with the Biden presidency. Very unpopular here. It was no better for Kamala Harris, who never even visited our border cities or took seriously her border czar position. The border issue was so bad that the GOP scored historic gains with Hispanics in border counties.
So what’s next for Democrats? It will be tough, as we learned from Congressman Allred, who challenged Senator Cruz. Allred has a profile that should win in Texas—he’s got a nice family image, and he’s a former NFL player and Baylor star. So what happened? Well, let me share this from Bill King:
First, the abortion issue flopped again for Democrats. In devising their strategy, Democrats read too much into polls that showed a wide majority of Texans oppose the abortion ban, at least in its current form. Texans are particularly opposed to the failure of the law to include an exception for rape and incest. A recent University of Texas poll found that 78% of Texans supported such an exception, at least, at some point during pregnancy.
However, if they had read that same poll a little more closely, they would have also learned that only 4% of Texans identified abortion as the most important issue in the election. Women and voters under 30 were only slightly higher at 6%. The economy and inflation were identified as the most important issue by a third of the respondents, with virtually no difference between men and women (35% vs. 32%). Immigration was the second highest at 14%. Abortion was a distant eighth.
Also, women under 30 make up only about a million of Texas’ 18 million registered voters and, of course, a fair number of those are pro-life. So, it is hard to understand how anyone ever thought this was going to be a winning strategy.
King goes on to explain how attacking the oil and gas industry is a loser in a state where thousands work in that field, especially Hispanics in South Texas. Furthermore, Allred was never able to explain why he voted in favor of boys playing in girls’ sports, but then ran TV ads saying that he didn’t believe in it. Why did he vote for it? He can thank Speaker Pelosi for forcing Democrats to vote on issues like that.
As 2026 approaches, and a governor’s race is coming, who can the Democrats count on? It won’t be Beto O’Rourke, because I think that donors must be tired of writing him checks. It won’t be Collin Allred, unless he does a massive transition to the center and deletes all of those votes from history. It won’t be one of the Castro brothers from San Antonio, because they can’t compete in rural areas.
The party is in trouble down here and that’s the truth.
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The wedding ring and the election - American Thinker https://t.co/95qrPjpG8w
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 11, 2024
The projected Roe wave, a pro-abortion tsunami of angry women, did not happen. Yes, there are angry liberal women among us but they did not change the election one way or another.
In the end, it was the battle of married vs unmarried women. Let’s check it out:
But while the gap between men and women actually shrank this year, another gap widened. In 2020, married voters narrowly chose President Donald Trump by a 7-point, 53% to 46% margin. This year that margin grew to 13 points at 56% to 43%.
For all the talk of Trump’s problem with women, Trump actually won married women by three points, 51 to 48. To repeat, Trump won a majority of not just married white women, but a majority of all married women.
Trump also handily won married men 60-38 and he even eked out a victory among unmarried men 49-47. Where Trump got crushed was among unmarried women, who chose Harris (who didn’t get married until age 50, by the way) by a 60-38 margin.
Well cue Dean Martin’s “Chapel in the Moonlight.”
This marriage gap is going to be a bigger issue as we learn that more and more women will be single and childless in the future. Don’t get me wrong, because I respect women’s choices. Nevertheless, married and unmarried women will make different decisions, from paying taxes to building schools to being concerned about their sons going to war.
Last, but not least, we saw another “miss” from the talking heads. They told us that everything was abortion for women. Well, it wasn’t, and it was a wedding ring that drove the vote.
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The Gods of baseball rekindled my love for baseball. I got a bit soured a few months ago when a weak commissioner couldn’t stand up to the wokes. He should have told the wokes to go to an “expletive deleted” place or he’d have Bob Feller threw a fastball at their neck. Trust me. A Bob Feller inside pitch is probably scarier than to hear that there is a drone with a missile looking for you.
In the end, the Gods of Baseball put the commissioner in his place and we can enjoy the game we love. As a kid, I grew up playing baseball in Cuba. My love affair got stronger when we came here and go to play ball in the US. A few weeks ago, we all became Braves fans just to see Atlanta get the trophy and stick it in the eyes of the wokish commissioner.
Baseball is back and so is its rich history to recall on this day that we remember the men and women who wore the uniform of the US.
Bob Feller, the Hall of Fame pitcher, died in 2010. He was one of many professional athletes who served in World War II. We remember Feller, what he accomplished on the field, and his sense of patriotism:
Just days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Feller put aside his 3-C draft deferment status and enlisted in the US Navy. With this selfless act, he gave up nearly four seasons of baseball in the prime of his career. But Feller had no regrets.
“I'm proud of that decision to enlist,” Feller said. “It was important to serve your country. I didn't worry about losing my baseball career. We needed to win the war. I wanted to do my part.”
At the conclusion of the war, Feller returned to the game and picked up right where he left off, averaging more than 19 wins a season over the next six years. Bobby Doerr recalled: “Bob was just a regular, solid person. He was the same guy, all the time. He gave his opinions and he said what he thought. He didn’t hedge around anything. He was one of the top pitchers I saw in my time. He was timed at 100 miles per hour and he had a real good curve ball. You had to always be alert with him. He was a real competitor.”
At the time of his passing on Dec. 15, 2010, Feller had been a Hall of Famer for more years than anyone in history – having earned election in 1962.
Dennis Eckersley summed it up best when he said: “Bob was truly a great American and a great ambassador for the game of baseball.”
Like so many of you, I say “thanks” to all of the veterans on Veterans Day. It is the day that we salute the millions of fellow citizens who serve or served in the US Armed Forces.
It is a day to salute and say thanks. It is also a good day to remember who has fought and continues to fight, to defend our way of life.
Happy Veterans Day!
"Photographer David DeJonge plans to capture a vanishing bit of history Tuesday on a trip to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.
There he hopes to photograph 107-year-old Frank Buckles -- one of the few men still alive who fought in World War I. Buckles will lay a wreath at the grave of Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, who led U.S. forces in Europe in World War I." (A Race to Honor World War I Vets)
"Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislation that was passed in 1938, November 11 was "dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day.'"
As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.
In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress -- at the urging of the veterans service organizations -- amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting the word "Veterans."
With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, Nov. 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars."It's a special day to salute a veterans and say "thanks"! And we remember the "citizen soldiers":
We will look at the results of the 2024 election and other stories:
Make my day and move out - American Thinker https://t.co/nFeV7OXBhU
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 10, 2024
Once upon a time, I heard a neighbor tell a story about their teenage son. Apparently, the young man was a bit rebellious and kept threatening to move out. One day, his dad said “make my day and move out.”
Later I learned that he did move out but came back when he realized that paying rent was part of moving out.
Anyway, I learned today that a lot of our fellow Americans want out.
This is the story:
More than 50% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris say they want to move following Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, according to a survey commissioned by StorageUnits.com.
Storage Units surveyed 1,837 Harris voters on Nov. 6 to determine how many would like to relocate – and who actually plans to – and the top concerns of those who voted against Trump.
Of those surveyed, 44% would like to move, but probably won’t, while 5% said they will definitely move and another 5% said they probably will. Those who would like to move, but probably won’t, cited personal finances, family and community ties as reasons they will stay in place.
O.K. You got it.
They hate Trump. They hated President Bush too and none left the country when he won reelection in 2004.
So what’s going on? We have too many silly and crazy people among us. They’ve invested all of their hopes and dreams in destroying Trump and now wake up to a reality that they can’t cope with.
In a normal world, such a person would seek counseling and help. In liberal land, they sit around and pretend that they are leaving us if the Evil Orange Man wins.
Please move out and stay away. The country will not miss you.
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"The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975..." (GLSM)The tragedy shocked the nation. It also reminded us of the size of Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes of North America.
During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future U.S. president John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia, created the Continental Marines and is now observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.There are over 200,000 men and women serving as US Marines. We congratulate and thank them for this service.
Memories of talking with my late father about the 1960 election - American Thinker https://t.co/ZNZZ8XjXl6
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 9, 2024
It happens every four years and we post about election results. For me, election day brings back memories of talking with my late father about one specific election that impacted our lives like no other.
Many years ago, Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard Nixon to win the 1960 election.
Down in Cuba, this election was followed closely by my father’s generation because of the communist radicalization of the Castro regime. I recall my father telling me stories of sitting around his Phillips short wave radio and listening to the debate. I can add that there was a lot of cigar smoke in our living room that night. Talking politics over my mother’s Cuban coffee and big Cuban cigar must have been a charm.
VP Nixon conceded the next day despite this election being very close. Wonder how many people know how close that JFK-Nixon election was? The two men were separated by about 113,000 votes, or 49.72% to 49.55%!
The Kennedy “mystique” is such that many people assume that he was elected by a landslide. On the contrary, it was a very close election and one wonders what would have happened if Nixon had insisted on a recount.
Down in Cuba, the election was followed with great interest, especially the second debate when they spoke about the situation in the island.
In less than six months, now-president Kennedy dropped the ball at the the Bay of Pigs. It changed Cuban history forever. Of course, it gave me a memory of talking to my father. He left us in 2015 and I remember him every election night as we catch results on TV. That election meant a lot to him.
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