A reader flags the awful ad seen above:

After reading my fellow Texan’s rundown of this year’s elections, I thought you might be interested to know that Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick, has been using ISIS as a weapon against his Democratic opponent, Leticia Van de Putte, in an attack ad this month. If I hadn’t already voted for Wendy Davis and Van de Putte, this ad, which I first saw this morning, would have surely energized me to vote AGAINST Dan Patrick. It’s almost comical how ridiculous the fear mongering is here. Almost. The Republicans in this state have zero shits to give anymore and, thanks to SCOTUS’s lack of a ruling on our new voter ID laws, that will likely continue through 2016.

Another Texan looks at the horizon:

There is some possible good news in this article.

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