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Now Bubba is suggesting headlines.

In a text exchange late on election night he submitted “Nevada woman beaten by dead Pimp.”

I replied with “It’s hard out here for a Pimp.”

Then realizing it was time to call it a night, I felt “Electoral Dysfunction” was my best shot. It seemed to cover so many parts of our condition for me.

Of course, none of them made the Wednesday editions.

In case you’ve been at one of those screen celibacy retreats for the last few days you could have missed the storyline from election day that Nevada brothel owner and reality TV star Dennis Hof died last month but still won the state legislative district he was running for. Hof was 72 when he died. That’s gotta be a pretty long life for a pimp if you ask me.

Hof defeated Democratic educator Lesia Romanov.

In case you don’t remember that Academy Award-winning ditty, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” by hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia from the 2005 movie “Hustle and Flow,” that really happened, too.

Peggy Dwelle in Athens wrote me after the song was mentioned in this column several years back that when she and her husband watched the Oscars that night she looked at him and said, “We can die now.” Mrs. Dwelle is gone now, may she rest in peace.

Back to election night. The Beto effect demonstrated what a beautiful man can accomplish with $60 million to $70 million against a very unlikable opponent in a very Republican state.

Many will want to rush to judgment that the state is turning purple. I am not convinced one election can prove such a thing, but a consistent pattern of closer elections would be more convincing.

I’m also not convinced in a broader sense our electorate knows the difference between socialism and capitalism. One of those ideologies supports a $15 per hour minimum wage more effectively than the other, for a while.

Lest we forget, Republicans remain firmly in charge of redistricting in Texas. Until that changes, districts will continue to be drawn to favor Republicans just as they were to favor Democrats during their near 100-year rule of the state. I’m not saying Democrats invented gerrymandering but they reveled in it when they were in charge.

The point here is not about partisanship but history. Time will tell if Beto was the tipping point or if he was 12 to 22 years ahead of his time.

The other thing we can count on is much enthusiasm about him running for national office, but it would be tough for a candidate to do much without being able to deliver the electoral votes of his own state.

Time will tell.