# Texas Primary Results

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-primary-results/531151>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-primary-results/531151 "2010-03-03T17:21:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-primary-results/531151/41 "2010-03-07T03:36:18Z")

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> [@flurb](#):
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> The interesting thing here on the Republican side is how much of a non-factor the Tea Party candidates ended up being against incumbents. Conaway, Brady, and Smith saw off their challengers without breaking a sweat, despite having the albatross of having voted for the TARP hung around their necks. And this in a vote where both Perry and Medina where whipping up the Tea Partiers with a loud anti-Washington message.

Why is this a surprise? The Tea Party movement has never been a mainstream movement. It’s their opposition that has tried to make it appear that way by constantly harping on them and people like Hannity and Limbaugh who are trying to make them out to be more than they are.

I know, I know, Limbaugh is the mainstream, right? Well, that would seem not to be so in this case.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-primary-results/531151/42 "2010-03-07T20:23:58Z")

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What I’m struck by is that I heard Perry on the news, & he talks in very much the same sort of accent & cadence as W Bush. I guess they both talk West Texan, but I found it kind of weird.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-primary-results/531151/43 "2010-03-07T20:26:45Z")

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> [@Lobohan](#):
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> Also, the bible is laughable as a work of literature. It is self-contradictory, poorly translated and the protagonist dies at the end. 😃

In the middle. Depending on which order you read it in. 😛  
And you clearly don’t get lit studies if you think those are strikes against studiable lit!

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**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-primary-results/531151/44 "2010-03-07T20:41:09Z")

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> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> In the middle. Depending on which order you read it in. 😛

I was thinking that Satan was the protagonist. That God fella is clearly the super-villain in the piece. 😃

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> And you clearly don’t get lit studies if you think those are strikes against studiable lit!

Touché.

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