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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The second the first returns came in, I knew it wasn't going to happen. Biden wasn't winning by enough, and it was Beto / Cruz all over again.

I didn't think he'd win, but I did think he'd be a lot closer, and I know a lot of people in the party trying to figure out what happened. A lot of people are surprised that more state house seats weren't flipped.

Running weak state-wide candidates and not having a ground game really hurt the Dems. Resting on Beto's laurels from two years ago didn't help either. His strategy was physically going places and pressing hands to hands. And it nearly worked.

Hegar impressed Hollywood with some pretty flashy ads, so she got tons of outside endorsements and cash, but she didn't make inroads at all with the party. Every single person she beat in the primary endorsed the other guy in the runoff. I don't remember her ever coming to Houston, I don't remember her being that interested in traveling all over. Covid obviously hurt, and the Republicans had NO problems going door-to-door.

We'll see what the next cycle brings. I've heard rumblings that Julian Castro is going for Abbott. Dunno what Beto is going to do, though I hear he might go after Cruz again. There's a lot of head scratching about what is going on in the Valley, so I imagine a lot of outreach is going on.

But yeah, I was so proud of Biden from staying away from fracking and fossil fuels for so long, and then the damned second debate he had to bring it up. I know tons of people out of work right now in O&G. And lord knows if it's going to recover to the level it was. Salt did not need to be rubbed in that particular wound if he had a prayer of winning.

That said, with a million plus new voters, it was always going to be hard to see where exactly they fall. Polling was pretty even for Biden/Trump towards the last month or so.

So in hindsight, was the focus on South Texas in the advertising budget the right thing to do, because there were persuadables there, or might we have cracked a CD or two or gotten more legislative seats if we'd focused on the big cities?