Never heard the CB basket being called the 'gut bomb' but I could see how it could be.
My results were actually pretty good here thanks to the "Beto effect" here in Texas. With Beto challenging Cruz for the senate seat that had people voting strait party tickets for the most part. The county I live in has Houston in it and the demographics of Houston have been slowing changing from red to blue so Beto got the people in Houston to hit the polls hard.
Prior to this election, about 1/3 of the county wide elected officials were dems and 2/3 republicans. All the county wide elected officials are now dems so the republicans got their hats handed to them and shown the exit doors.
I am glad it happened too, especially the county judge Ed Emmit. A few years ago we had a referendum on a ballot to tear down the old original Astro Dome and it passed overwhelmingly . But the county judge refused to have the dome torn down, and had some group get it listed as a historical building after the vote to tear it down had already been had.
I have held that against him since then and I even thought as I was voting on Friday it would be good if he got the boot for not living up to what the voters had said they wanted done.
There are a bunch of judges looking for work now too, all the judges were republican and they all got their pink slips too on Tuesday night. In a way it is sad that they caught up in the Beto effect but who is to say they didn't get in to office the same way, on the vote of some other higher up race and straight party ticket vote.
In the judge Emmit case, he is being replaced by a 27 year old female with an Hispanic last name of "Hidalgo" I think, or something like that. I have no idea what her credentials are, but she had the one thing going for her that Ed didn't, she wasn't the incumbent. I was all about change and so in the local political races we got some change.
Other than that I had one race that I voted republican and that guy did win named Dan Crenshaw, he won the seat for congress that had been help by a republican who did not seek re-election.
The state wide offices are all still controlled by the republicans so nothing changed there. The republicans need to pay attention, Cruz barely got re-elected and that should be a wake up call that things are changing and they might just need to start doing what the people say.