Tag: The Dallas Morning News

Cruz, the incumbent Republican, was at The Pantry in McKinney and Babe's Chicken House in Arlington, holding classic retail meet and greets, urging conservatives to support his re-election bid and stem the predicted blue wave that could propel Democrats and his rival. O'Rourke discussed the importance of the Dallas area Monday night, when he kicked off his North Texas swing at the opening of his campaign office in Dallas. We're just showing up everywhere, every day," O'Rourke told The Dallas Morning News. The people are behind us. Last month, he campaigned at a Dallas barbecue restaurant and a barber shop. A Texas Lyceum poll showed a statistical dead heat, with Cruz ahead 41 percent to 39 percent, well within the margin of error of plus or minus 4.67 percentage points, which means that either could be ahead. And a Quinnipiac University Poll put Cruz leading 49 percent to 43 percent. During the question-and-answer period in Arlington, Cruz blasted O'Rourke as a liberal who doesn't reflect Texas values, saying his rival opposes building a wall to keep people from illegally crossing the southern border, favors government-sponsored health care, supports gun control and wants to impeach President Trump. Tuesday evening at DeSoto High School, O'Rourke hosted a town hall exclusively on education, a crucial issue for the teachers and retired educators scattered across the crowd of 400. "I have yet to meet a teacher who doesn't want to be held accountable, and I have yet to meet a teacher who doesn't want to do a better job in the classroom," O'Rourke said.

People won’t ask each other, “Which generation are you voting for?” And they definitely won’t vote based entirely on way-insider technical issues. The question might be this: Black rose to success 20-40 years ago. If you don’t believe me, watch the faces of young people next time you catch an older person speaking to them about race, gender or national origin. But it may mean the election could turn on questions that speak to broader sensibilities, like rewilding the Trinity River, expanding the trail system, creating neighborhoods where poor people can live on the same street with middle-class people and the middle-class people won’t pass out every time they see them. Those issues are so deep, so close to the bone that people just read them in each other by mental sonar. And may the best sensibility win. But it’s going to get worked out as personality. You could almost say the reason we have politics in the first place is so we won’t all have to work on drainage issues. Say this for the technical side of politics: With that tiny a sliver of the city’s potential voters making the decision on vote day, any candidate who can push the stack by even a few thousand voters one way or the other will have an enormous advantage. I wish they could all be mayor at the same time.