{"id":60455,"date":"2026-11-06T02:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60455"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:23:59","slug":"no-squeakers-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60455","title":{"rendered":"No squeakers here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose one could argue that a series of razor-thin margins in a state as big as Texas could produce talk of fluke, of a political anomaly &#8230; and it might induce talk of voter fraud.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not so in Texas this midterm election year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think for a moment of what occurred. Texas Democrats, who had been shut out of statewide office for more than 30 years, stormed back into power with a ferocity few of us saw coming.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the top of the ticket, Democratic U.S. Sen.-elect James Talarico disposed of Ken Paxton with a cushion of 1.2 million voters. Gov.-elect Gina Hinjosa\u00a0 beat three-term incumbent Greg Abbott by a 700,000-vote\u00a0 margin. Each of the statewide races went for the Democratic nominee by equal or similar numbers. The closest margin I saw was for agriculture commissioner, which went for the Democrat by about 300,000 ballots.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Texas House of Reps also flipped from Republican to Democrat. Did you see that coming? Hah! Neither did I.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats have been preaching essentially the same mantra since they lost the governor&#8217;s office in 1994. Legislate with kindness, grace, compassion. So, the call went out. It fell onto the laps of pols who didn&#8217;t care. Now they do. The evidence can be seen in people&#8217;s homes. Heating bills are way up. The cost of food, fuel and housing is up. We&#8217;ve gone to war with Iran. We used bombs and missiles to rid Venezuela of its sovereign leader.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sigh &#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I welcome the change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose one could argue that a series of razor-thin margins in a state as big as Texas could produce talk of fluke, of a political anomaly &#8230; and it might induce talk of voter fraud. Not so in Texas this midterm election year. Think for a moment of what occurred. Texas Democrats, who had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No squeakers here<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[1941,4622],"class_list":["post-60455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-gop","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60458,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60455\/revisions\/60458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}