Poor Ted
So remember when Beto O’Rourke and Willie Nelson drew between 55,000 – 60,000 people to an outdoor venue a couple of weeks ago? And then, true to his nature, Trump stands up and boasts that he’s going to give Ted a rally in the “the biggest stadium in Texas we can find.”
Trump forgot he was talking about Texas. They must not be very good hunters. Or, they must be little scary cats.
They have booked the rally at NRG Arena in Houston, which holds 8,000 people. Hell, it’s even smaller than your average high school football stadium. Honey, we have a high school football stadium in Odessa, Texas, that holds almost 18,000 people and you’ve never even heard of Odessa, Texas.
So, Trump revises and says it’s the largest venue they could find in Houston. I do not even believe that. The rally is on a Monday night, it’s not even a weekend. Second, why does it have to be in Houston? Houston is a heavily Democratic city so they’re gonna have to bus-in people.
One other thing. Richard Linkletter is directing some anti-Cruz commercials in Texas that are getting national attention. Please meet Sonny Carl hitting hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYYqEgT9uI
And this one hit today. Cruz called Beto a “triple meat Whataburger liberal.” It was bizarre from the start because Whataburger is a beloved institution in Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAvKZAPhOUU
I can’t wait to see the next one.
I’ve been enjoying these–and I even know about Whataburger. But, I’m more interested to know how these ads are playing in the, you know, actual Texas where folks get to vote on this.
1Thank you I needed a laugh. Here in Arizona we have Rubber stamp McSally and Douche bag Douse running spots on TV 24/7 Not much to laugh about there.
2What Texan disses Whataburger and praises White Castle?
3John Oliver showed the commercial. And then invited Sonny Carl to sneer a few other names. I had a huge giggle!
4Pitiful. Loathsome Teddie and demented Donnie will need photo shop to fake a ‘crowd’ in a stadium seating 8000. Then again can’t say that I knew Texas actually called anything that small a stadium. Must be a pre-school recital hall. NRG Arena? Wot’s up, Houston?
Richard Linkletter is doing just fine on his own. But if he’s open to suggestions, that paisley robe might be good for a few guffaws.
5https://www.nrgpark.com/event-calendar/
NRG Stadium is available – just sayin’
there are also Rice Univ., UofH, hell, there’s a lovely new stadium in Katy – all of which are much larger
6Linklater
7Sorry, I cant spell worth squat!
8Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself, ya done ruined my near 85% perfect record with cut & paste! ;D
9Honest to doG folks, 8000 seats is a very small high school’s seating capacity or a poorly attended 5A game.
10Here in NJ, White Castles dot the landscape. They’re awesome if you work all night and don’t fear a little jail time. If Ted says he likes those gut bombs, someone ought to ask him why.
11So an 8,000 seat stadium is the biggest you got in texas.
12No wonder Alaskan’s are laughing.
If one really wants a low voter turn out in Texas just move election day to Friday and schedule a public 4 hr. pep rally for noon. I doubt you would get more than 15% turn out in places with less than 150,000 population.
13I wish the tv and newspapers would show the demonstrators when Trump shows up. There were lots of them across from the St. Regis Hotel when he was here collecting money but not a picture in any media!
14Watch for the Donnei-Teddei lovefest coverage to use tight camera shots, etc., in order to make the ‘crowd’ size look awesome in that tiny venue.
I’m ‘real surprised’ that they didn’t grab Kyle Field at TAMU-CS, it’s real friendly territory there in College Station (my daughter’s freshman roommate at Krueger Hall was a close GW Bush family friend and Talibangelical type, daughter was sort of unhappy for the semester).
Dang, when my kids started high school (ca. 2001), our little rural HS was 2A size, then bumped up to 3A, and I’m pretty sure the football stadium would hold 8000. Later, a few years ago (think they’re 4A now), the stadium was rebuilt with new school bond money, it probably holds 10-12K now.
Holy cow, just looked it up, they’re a 5A now, but there’s now a 6A for the really big schools. They’re stuffed in with some of the old ‘big’ name schools, no wonder they’re getting blasted every year (like Alamo Heights, Kerrville Tivy, ouch).
(all public school div/ranks (1A-6A) are listed at the bottom of this Wiki UIL link):
15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Interscholastic_League
Ms. Juanita,
16Did you “misspell” the last name or were flashing back to your youth and memories of Art Linkletter took control.
I saw some hilarious “Beto bingo cards” for the next (final?) debate. Get him, Beto!
17@K
Nah. 8,000’s a small Friday night crowd in Texas.
Stephenville v. Brownwood literally empties the other town out, the rival high schools being just 60ish miles apart. The seated crowd is likely in the area of 12k, with another 1k or so standing and a 1k on the parking lots socializing but without tickets. Season tickets are inherited. Prolly there is not a season ticket for sale in August, unless either stadium has been expanded with new seating. Noise is deafening. The score can be felt by the collective breathing in or out of the crowd. Yes it is must see stuff.
My son’s high school team got past division play and went to the next level at Texas Stadium against another local team. 33,000 were in paid attendance.
Of course there is the sad truth that my son’s team played WW Samuel HS during the regular season. There were about 600 in the visitor’s stands. Not good support by any measure.
18@Micr says
19But but demented donnie stated that he would have a pro raphael rally in the largest stadium in texas and fill it.
Since demented donnie is never wrong it must mean that an 8,000 seat stadium must be the largest in texas.
Can someone from Texas explain something to me?
I keep reading news articles and getting emails saying that Beto has lost his luster and Cruz is winning by 7+ points.
Some emails go so far as to state that for Beto “all hope is lost” and to send money right away.
I just ignore these emails because I am just about donated out.
What is the real story?
20There might be a strategy in choosing a small auditorium for this rally: I am sure they will easily fill it up, and creative camera work can make it look bigger. THEN, for those that don’t get in, there will be a huge story about that as well.
21@SammyW
Not from texas ( thank god) but I am seeing this across the board.
My interpetation is
1) as the election closes in polling tends to start focusing in on “likely” voters. Depending upon the definition of likely that shrinks the pool of voters down dramatically. In many cases “likely” and “probable” voters depends upon voting history of each voter. Just whether they have a history of voting. New voters, people who only vote during presidential cycles etc are left out.
Beto’s stratagy is, in part, driving those with no or limited voting history’s to vote. This is similar to Georgia and most D campaigns.
2) Crooked thuglican owned polling companies who as a matter of giving cover to thuglican owned voting machines stealing the vote cook the numbers to favor thuglican candinates. If the consensus of all polls that candinate X is behind by 10% or more a last minute shift of that percentage of voters needed to award candinate X a win might actually cause a stir.
But if it can be presented ( with crooked #’s from crooked polling) that it was a tight race and candinate X is only behind by 5% or less well that is just accepted as the normal “red shift” ( red theft) of the electorate, at least since “rob georgia” stole the seat from Max Cleland.
So this is my feeble attempt to answer you inquiry.
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