Locally, our Republican primary was the critical one. We had a stealth Democrat , Jim Langford, trying to unseat our new fantastic State Representative Mike Lang. Voters chose wisely and Lang won all eight of the counties in our District. WoooHOOO! We are very happy. We had a big 3x5 sign in our yard for him. Our candidate for County Judge also won out over a too-long-term incumbent, so we are looking forward to better management at the County level. Statewide, most candidates we supported won, too. We voted Patterson over George P Bush for Land Commissioner - mainly because we do not want to "reimagine" the Alamo. It has not been a contentious race, and we are ok with Bush continuing, so long as he doesn't let Phil Collins' collection of artifacts get away from us. For what it is worth, we are hearing that Trump's endorsement � and Bush's persistent support of Trump � are the two big factors that motivated people to vote for him. So that bodes VERY WELL f...