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'Huge plot twist' as poll finds GOP election-rigging plot in Texas may backfire
Tarrant County Shows the Cost of Political VandalismThe Power Was Never HiddenA new poll in Tarrant County puts Democratic nominee Alisa Simmons statistically tied with Republican incumbent Tim O’Hare for county judge, the top executive job in a swing county anchored by Fort Worth. On an informed ballot, Simmons would reportedly pull ahead. That is the basic fact pattern. The politics around it are clearer than the reporting’s polite language suggests.Who Actually Made the MoveThe power in this story sits with the Republican county machinery that controlled the earlier decision to dismantle…
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