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Obama Says Texas Will Be a Battleground State ‘Soon’
abc ^ | Jul 17, 2012 4:36pm | Arlette Saenz

Posted on 07/17/2012 6:43:02 PM PDT by Red Steel

SAN ANTONIO — Greeting a crowd of donors with “Hello San Antone,” President Obama revved up Democrats in the traditionally red state by telling them he sees shades of purple in Texas that might ultimately turn blue down the line.

“The next four months, you guys won’t see them, because, you know, you’re not considered one of the battleground states, although that’s going to be changing soon In the next four months,” Obama said of negative ads at a fundraising luncheon at a downtown convention center here.

“There is going to be more money spent than we’ve ever seen before, folks writing $10 million checks to try to beat me, running ads with scary voices and basically one message,” he said. “I mean, it’s a very simple message, you know. Their message is the economy is not where it needs to be and it’s Obama’s fault… There will be variations on the theme, but it will be the same message over and over and over again. That’s what they’re banking on, because they can’t sell their actual economic plan. So their goal is to see if they can knock us down.”

Obama’s Texas fundraising swing, which is expected to net more than $4 million for his re-election effort, according to campaign officials, is squeezed in between campaign trips to two battleground states — Ohio on Monday and Florida at the end of the week.

Jimmy Carter was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win Texas, in 1976. In 2008, then-candidate Obama lost Texas to Republican Sen. John McCain by nearly 12 points.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012swingstates; bho2012; tx2012; wishfulthinking
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To: Red Steel

What a thinly vieled threat by someone who is statistically challenged. Come to my house please; and I will stand my g round.


21 posted on 07/17/2012 7:53:27 PM PDT by foldspace (Barak Obama is still not a >convicted< criminal...)
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To: Red Steel

Tea Party vs RINOS.


22 posted on 07/17/2012 8:04:21 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: Red Steel

In 2008, then-candidate Obama lost Texas to Republican Sen. John McCain by nearly 12 points.
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It will be at least 15 points this time. Guarantee.


23 posted on 07/17/2012 8:04:47 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: Red Steel

Obama’s Texas fundraising swing.....
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Was he raising money for Senate candidate, David Dewhurst?

(Tongue in cheek.)


24 posted on 07/17/2012 8:07:00 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: KC_Lion

There have been others who tried to subject Texas before. It did not work. This phoney had “Zero” chance of success here.

“Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.”

Nothing the current “Liar-in-Chief” can contribute will change that.


25 posted on 07/17/2012 8:07:37 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Red Steel

Obama Says Texas Will Be a Battleground State ‘Soon’
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When steers fly.


26 posted on 07/17/2012 8:08:21 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: Red Steel

Why else did they ship all those Katrina “victims” to Texas and Arizona? For the weather?


27 posted on 07/17/2012 8:10:20 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Red Steel

Obama Says Texas Will Be a Battleground State ‘Soon’
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When steers fly.


28 posted on 07/17/2012 8:11:01 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

Yes, Obama has been lying again.


29 posted on 07/17/2012 8:12:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

He’s running TV ads in Texas on prime time. what does he know? and Holy Crap


30 posted on 07/17/2012 8:13:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: KC_Lion; cripplecreek; Arthurio; Theoria

If Obama was speaking of 2012 then it was just nonsensical blathering. But over the long run, he is unfortunately correct.

Texas won’t be a lost cause like California anytime soon, because white voters in Texas are much more conservative than their counterparts in California. Republicans now routinely carry over 70% of the whites in Texas; this is why they dominate the state. It’s not because they do a little better with Hispanics than Republicans do in California. It’s because of the white vote...period. If the GOP did as well with white voters in California they wouldn’t dominate there because the electorate is more white in Texas, but they would at least be competitive and maybe win a few important races.

So if the GOP can keep winning this huge majority of white voters in Texas, they’ll avoid a California-style descent into oblivion and insignificance. But the trends aren’t good. I don’t know how to judge the movement into Texas of other Americans from other states. I don’t know which party this favors. We all know how liberals flee a liberal state that has been ruined by liberal policies, and then take the same destructive liberal politics to their new home. But I don’t know if they outnumber conservative Americans who are moving to Texas.

However, there is no question about how immigration breaks. It is a clear and obvious advantage for the Democrats. And we shouldn’t forget that it is legal immigration that is doing most of the damage. Yeah, I’m sure some illegals illegally vote, but the real danger from illegal immigration is their eventual amnesty and path to citizenship, because that’s the same thing as a path to voting for Democrats. But that’s still only a possibility. And it would do no good to stop all illegal immigration if we continue to allow mass legal immigration. The source for most immigration, whether it’s legal or illegal, will inevitably produce many more future Democrats than Republicans.

The idea that conservatism can win over Hispanics and Asians while their populations are growing so rapidly is a pipe dream; it’s pure fantasy. It’s not that the GOP is harsh or unwelcoming; it’s because Hispanics and Asians simply favor the big govt, (and to an extent the ethnic-grievance) policies of the Democrats. I don’t see how anyone can dispute that.

We should be able to comfortably hold Texas for a little while longer, but the GOP will absolutely lose it’s lock on it. Texas will become a battleground state, and when that happens it’s hard to see how the GOP can stay relevant competitive in Presidential elections.


31 posted on 07/17/2012 8:21:31 PM PDT by Aetius
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To: Aetius

I think a lot of people are over estimating the Progressives and the Food Stamp Presidents popularity with minorities in Texas. You see that popularity in the rat holes of Austin, Central Houston, etc., but it is vastly different in the other areas of Texas where people work for a living and not sit around home playing video games and subsisting on welfare.


32 posted on 07/17/2012 8:29:56 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Skittle pooping unicorns are more common than progressives with honor & integrity.)
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To: Arthurio
Republicans used to regularly carry California in presidential ,senatorial and gubernatorial elections. Now it is a completely lost cause... Due to some of the very same demographic trends that are now hitting Texas.

You're right. Outsiders ruined California, all of those Liberals from back east came in and started voting for Democrats.

33 posted on 07/17/2012 8:47:52 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: EyeGuy

“This is not a shooting war, but a demographics one, which whites are losing. Badly.”

You see the future.
And — unlike some of the previous posters in this thread — so do I.

The title of the article reads:
“Obama Says Texas Will Be a Battleground State ‘Soon’”.

He’s right, although he has about as much to do with it as he did with the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Texas -is- destined to become a battleground state, because of changing demographics within.

Was there not posted a few months back, right here on FreeRepublic, an article that said that the majority of babies born in Texas were to Hispanics, illegal or otherwise? And conversely, that the number of births to women of “Euro” heritage was far lower, relatively?

Texas probably has the largest number of Hispanic illegals of any state other than California. It doesn’t matter whether there’s an amnesty or not — the illegals who are in Texas TODAY are literally “sowing the seeds” of political change, through the children they are gestating. Every one of those babies is an American citizen. No, they can’t vote today, nor can their parents. But wait 18 years, and that changes....

Those who warn that if Texas “tips” to the rats, the presidency may be lost to Republicans are correct. Look at California, a once-conservative state, that not only has “tipped” leftward but completely toppled over. Texas isn’t there yet, but the demographics of the state are ominous.

Not a good situation. The problem with illegals is that their children are NOT “illegal”. They are here, and they are citizens. And they most likely will vote liberal when they reach voting age.

THAT is why Texas is going to end up “in the battleground” within a generation.

Recalling that famous battle long ago where the line was drawn in the sand, the force of greater numbers will eventually win... but this time they won’t fire a shot. It’s babies who have become bullets in this demographic struggle.

I don’t like it any more than anyone reading this.
But that’s the way I see it...


34 posted on 07/17/2012 8:56:31 PM PDT by Road Glide
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To: All; Red Steel
He's right, if Republicans aren't careful.

Obama knows the demographics.

Perry warned Republicans in this primary.

W tried to warn in the the preceding decade.

Republicans cannot allow another major state to go the way of CA after Prop 187 or there will never been another Republican president.

35 posted on 07/17/2012 9:00:02 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: Red Steel

Well I might agree! If the feds wont do anything about the illegals, and the commies don’t leave of their own volition, I’d start shooting too! By the way, I’m from the volunteer state, there is a historic reason behind that distinction, and if Texas needs us again, we will be glad to oblige.


36 posted on 07/17/2012 9:16:29 PM PDT by Boiling point
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To: Red Steel

We don’t much care for skinny gay foreigner communist Islamist liars down here in Texas. If he wants to see what it is like to be tarred and feathered and run out of the state on a rail, well come on by!


37 posted on 07/17/2012 9:36:05 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: KC_Lion

The founders included property and literacy requirements to insure that outright redistribution of income wasn’t the result. That’s a big problem with democracy. We better figure out how to stop the low income illegal immigrant class from gaining control, or this country is done.


38 posted on 07/17/2012 9:57:11 PM PDT by Hokestuk
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To: KC_Lion

Well, that’s what happens when you nominate folks like Romney.

The Republicans deserve a wipeout here. Maybe they will learn their lesson.


39 posted on 07/17/2012 10:06:01 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: Aetius

‘it’s hard to see how the GOP can stay relevant competitive in Presidential elections’

The GOP hasn’t been relevant in some time now.


40 posted on 07/17/2012 10:09:20 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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