Nine candidates are running for the open congressional seat in District 19. You get to choose from 9 different shades of the same color.

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All of the candidates have pretty much identical positions on all the issues. By all the issues, I mean whatever their campaign managers told them are "hot button issues". Not one is bringing anything different to the race. Not one is even remotely different than the others.

I kind of think all of this is a disservice to the district. Theres no exchange of ideas, there's no unique solutions and no benefit in choosing one over the other. Basically all we're doing is putting another live body into a spot that was already held by a conservative who did little to nothing during his tenure. We will once again have a representative who will never rise above their current station, never innovate and never really do anything for West Texas.

I'm sure conservative voters are happy that no matter what, they're going to win one for their "team", but we sure seem to be setting the bar and our expectations pretty low.

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