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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Beto lost to Cruz 50.9 - 48.3, a margin of 2.6%. Trump beat Clinton in Texas, 52.0 to 43.1, a margin of 8.9%. So Beto outperformed the top of the ticket by 6.3%. That's a lot. You can say that Cruz is disliked, but so is Trump.
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You can't really understand the difference between dislike for Cruz and Trump until you've spent time hanging out with GOP campaign managers.
Cruz might be hated more by Republicans than Democrats.
From DC to bumfuck, ask a GOP operative about Cruz and they'll explain why they wish any other sentient creature could win that seat for the GOP. The line I heard often about him was that he's not a Republican, but in the "Party of Ted Cruz." Libertarians, liberals, conservatives, non-voters, people who don't even live in this country -- people who may never have even heard of Ted Cruz, but osmotically absorb the impenetrable dread that enters the bones upon hearing his name -- hate Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz's wife hates Ted Cruz, and won't allow photos, or any likeness of him, in her bedroom. Mitch McConnell, who subsists on a breakfast shake of powdered hatred and children's blood, has privately expressed astonishment at the level of hatred he senses for Cruz within The Force. John Boehner can't recall 15 minutes ago, or his shoe size, but will publicly claim to anyone who'll listen that he wishes to see 90 only to dance on Ted Cruz's grave.
Ted Cruz hates Ted Cruz, and it takes him seven paragraphs to explain all the reasons why in adequate detail.
I digress, but the point is, there's hatred, and then there's Hatred of Ted Cruz. And these are different like a Hyundia and a Maybach are different. People will hold their nose and vote for Trump. Not even his mother would vote for Ted Cruz.
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