I've posted two OPs about how panicked the GOP in Texas is.

[flamin lib]

They are here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214109977

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214123407

I'm continuing to get GOP campaign emails. More and more requests for contributions. Today I got one from the TX GOP and one from Newt Gingrich. I'm getting 4-6 a day! Never have I gotten this kind of solicitation from the GOP! In my memory they never did voter registration drives or GOTV efforts much less this craven pleading for money! The polls show Biden behind by 4% BUT polls use past voter records so the 1.65 Million new registered voters aren't being queried. I have to believe that a million of them are Ds as the Rs don't really know how to recruit (never having done it) and Beto's group has contacted more than a million new Texan transplants who were registered Ds in their previous state.

It's gonna' be a grunt but it just might happen!

[qazplm135]

1. I give it about a ten percent chance but,

I'm doing my part...already convinced a Texas Trump voter not to vote for him and might have her towards Biden...working on a Cali Republican transplant to not only vote Biden here in Texas but talk to some of her won't vote for Trump but won't vote for Biden friends in AZ.

[lagomorph777]

2. Nuke Gangrene is still alive?

That's unfortunate.

[bluecollar2]

15. Syphilis

Death can be slow...

Patience....

[lagomorph777]

17. I want him to see his party decimated in November, then let Karma take him.

[DBoon]

22. I'd like him to make one last statement before passing into the beyond

"Would you like fries with that order?"

[stillcool]

3. I love good news...

Hard row to hoe, but, what is known now, like never before, is anything is possible. Wouldn't it be nice to be the "United" States?

[frazzled]

4. OK,so I get about 30 a day from Democrats

Asking for contributions and using scare headers with lots of exclamation points. So what? Does it mean they’re panicking? Both parties do this constantly.

My question is why you are getting emails from Republicans. That’s never happened to me. Ever.

[flamin lib]

6. What it means is that Ds at a national level have a well developed electronic fund raising

system in place. I'm talking Texas state parties. Yeah I hear from state D candidates too, but in my memory the Rs in Texas have been so secure they never even bothered. This is new behavior and frankly they aren't very good at it. Offering an 800% match before midnight? That's blatantly false on it's face! It's simply not possible. Then the following day offering a 700% match before midnight? In both cases they're asking for $5 donations, also a new thing.

This is new.

[Lonestarblue]

10. I get emails from Republicans.

I have emailed both my Senators, Cruz and Cornyn, complaining about their votes and my House Representative complaining about his refusal to hold a town hall for anyone but his rich Republican donors. As a result I get emails from people in both parties because once your name is out there it gets shared with everyone. And Democratic groups are just as bad as Republicans with their emails trying to get you to donate. The sky is always falling for both.

[frazzled]

11. That explains it, I guess.

I've always lived in blue states (though we did briefly have a Republican senator here in Illinois, and I wrote to ask about some vote once; they got my email address, but I quickly unsubscribed. Why would I want to get mail from someone who was voting the opposite of what I politely requested?).

Quite a few years ago, I was asked to participate in a phone focus group from the DCCC to discuss fundraising emails (this was when they were still relatively new). There were maybe 15 people on the conference call. They went around getting everyone's input, and when I said "I'd be most willing to donate if I were told how the money was going to be spent—say, on campaign staff, office rental, etc."—and my suggestion was met with dead silence.

So then they started testing different messaging on us for email headers and themes: everyone (except for me) loved, loved, loved the most hair-on-fire ones: Bush is a Poopy Head!! They Will Start Six More Wars!

Sigh, it's never ended. I guess that's what people want. Me, I almost never respond to the emails I get, and I get tons every day, from every organization and candidate. When I want to donate, I go straight to the web site. I don't want to encourage this barrage.

[homegirl]

20. I am and have been

a registered Democrat all my life. Lately, about once a week I get an email begging for a contribution to the Trump campaign. They would be happy for $3.00. I am in the market for a stack of phony three dollar bills, any sources?

[DBoon]

24. Use Monopoly money

It is as real as the money Trump used to build hist real estate "empire"

[homegirl]

29. Great advice,

thanks.

[Blue Owl]

5. Everything's big in Texas -- including GOP desperation

[ananda]

7. Reeps don't ask me for anything.

I do get a LOT of texts from Dems and progressive
organizations though.

I never donate to soliciting texts.

I choose and make my donations myself.

[flamin lib]

8. Somehow I on the State GOP mailing list. I think Ted Cruz added me as revenge after a scathining

email I sent him.

[helpisontheway]

14. Same here except for Virginia. I get flyers from Republicans for VA a few times a week. Nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I hope they're desperate! I hope they lose hugely.

[flamin lib]

12. Even if we don't take the state, it'll put the fear o' Gawd in 'em. 🤬

[VA_Jill]

13. When I get those

I write "Refused. Return to Sender" in bright red marker on the envelope and stick 'em back in the mailbox. I hope they go right back where they came from. I'm getting a lot fewer so maybe they're getting the idea......

[jorgevlorgan]

19. I want them to send me fundraising requests with return envelopes inside

Then I can get rid of all my junk mail and support the post office at the same time.

[DBoon]

25. Is it illegal to send some of my dog's "product" using their return envelope?

I get tired of scooping it and bagging it.

[jorgevlorgan]

26. Not sure, but it would be nice for the GOP to actually make themselves useful for once

They aren't qualified for "dog catcher" but they are definitely qualified for "Dog poop retainer/handler"

[Susan Calvin]

16. So I'm not the only one getting Republican mailers?

I have no idea what gave them the idea that I'm a Republican.

[jorgevlorgan]

18. If things stay the same or improve for us, we are likely going to win texas

But that's still a pretty big "if" 40 days from the election.

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. Hopefully Texas will turn Blue

Even if it doesn't it's forcing them to spend time, money and resources in a state that should've been a shoe in for them. That's not a bad thing.

[Gruenemann]

27. I got 12 emails from 45 yesterday

I live in San Antonio, and somehow I got on the Trump campaign's mailing list. I've seen a steady increase in emails from various iterations of the campaign--Trump, Pence, Lara Trump, Trump Finance, etc.--but they're all from the same source. I don't ever read them, but the subject lines reek of desperation.

[BlueWavePsych]

28. The more resources are spent defending Texas the better

... and Texas could still turn BLUE