Posted on 10/07/2014 1:28:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
AUSTIN, Tex. — FOR most of a long, hot summer, Wendy Davis’s campaign for governor here resembled a cowboy lost in the desert — horseless, stumbling and finally just left for dead in the remorseless Texas heat. Despite a strong national profile, she trailed her Republican opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, sometimes by double digits. Among the experts, a conventional wisdom set in: Ms. Davis can’t win, Republicans can’t lose and Texas won’t change.
Yet as summer has turned to fall, Ms. Davis has entered new territory: Last week a poll by the Texas Lyceum, a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution, showed that Ms. Davis has narrowed that gap to just nine points, and pundits around the state are talking about a new momentum behind her. What happened?
The short answer is tactics. Ms. Davis’s campaign hasn’t been perfect, but she is dogged on the stump, and has stood up well to Mr. Abbott’s attacks.
Of course, Ms. Davis is still nine points back, and she has just five weeks to catch up. Which is why the longer explanation for her turnaround is more important, not just for Texas, but the country.
Many hoping to see Texas go purple point to the growth of its Hispanic community. And that’s part of it, but not everything. Population growth, soaring diversity and dense urbanization are also transforming Texas, much as they have done in Virginia and North Carolina....
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“George W. Bush as governor in 1994. Before that, the state was reliably Democratic”
That might be true at the state level, but Texas has gone GOP at the Presidential level every election but one since 1972.
The GOP still needs to be worried, though. If Texas goes blue, we probably won’t see another GOP president for a long time. The path to 270 just isn’t there without Texas’ 38.
America needs to awaken. Spirtually we are dead. Economically we are dead. Socially we are dead. Academically we are dead.
But it all starts with awakening to our sin.
May God’s Spirit move.
Liberal wishful thinking. By the way, when Democrats were elected to statewide offices a decade or so ago, those Democrats were pretty conservative as were the Democrats in Southern States that eventually turned red.
Ann Richards and Jim Hightower. Liberalism never died in Texas.
IOW, the New York Slimes is shilling for the Demagogic Party, as it always does. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Hispanics Won’t Turn Texas Blue
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