Yep.
Posted on 09/16/2019 12:35:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This is the Democratic strategy to flip Texas on the electoral map from red to blue. And truth be told, they are getting close—too close. How did this happen? What are the GOP and Republican National Committee doing about this?
The Democrats have had Texas in their sights for awhile. You saw their push in the 2018 midterm elections against incumbent Senator Ted Cruz. They came close to defeating Cruz with Beto O’Rouke— an ultra lefty open borders empty suit. A lot of outside money flooded into O’Rourke’s effort, but that is irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Cruz was outspent 3-1. His margin of victory was razor-thin at 50.9 % to 48.3% in what was at one time a solid red state.
A shift is happening in Texas that will cost our country dearly if conservative political leaders ignore it. Look at the voting map results in 2018, and you will find most of it is colored red. However, Texas has a dynamic similar to New York, California, and Illinois, with their three most populist areas (New York City, Los Angeles-San Francisco and Chicago), respectively, are solid blue. In Texas, we see Dallas and Tarrant counties are solid blue while Harris County (Houston) is trending from purple to blue and on its way to stable blue if the trend continues. This could be enough to tip the scales.
Senator Ted Cruz recently sounded the alarm, calling Texas, “hotly contested” for the upcoming 2020 elections. Although this did not happen overnight, it is now urgent. Democrats are like carpenter ants. They have one job, and it is to build the nest continually. Carpenter ants are impossible to get rid of once they arrive. Even if you get rid of one infestation, they move to a new nearby location and start the process of building the nest all over again. Democrats are focusing on the population centers—the large cities. They are Democratic strongholds.
The Democrats have gained ground in Texas from shifting demographics like transplants that flee California’s high taxes and urban pathologies like homelessness, discarded drug needles and the feces-laden streets of San Francisco. These transplants whose liberal voting behavior resulted in the blight plaguing California, bring their liberal-minded baggage with them. It makes no sense. It's like changing four quarters for a dollar to gain wealth.
Republicans currently hold the Texas Governor’s office and both chambers of the state legislature although the margin of GOP-held seats slipped in 2018. Texas currently has no state income tax. As more Democrats take seats in the Texas state legislature, it won’t be long before a Democratic-controlled state legislature increases spending and implements an income tax to pay for it. It’s the Democratic way.
Why should I or anybody outside of Texas give a damn? Because the consequences at the national level are more existential. Texas has 36 electoral votes. If President Trump or any GOP presidential candidate in the future wants to have a chance at winning the electoral map, they have to win Texas. We cannot allow Texas to become a swing state or, worse yet, a blue state.
Knowing Texas is slipping away, I ask the GOP, what is your plan to save the Lone Star state? There has to be one. Please tell us. Also, where is the sense of urgency from the RNC? I have it. Do they? Do they really because I don’t feel it. Don’t tell us that you “hope” to win Texas in 2020 because hope is not a plan. Having run in numerous elections in a county of nearly one million people I know from experience that you must stay on offense in politics. Hanging on is not an effective strategy for winning. To not believe that the shift from red to purple in Texas is real, is to be suspended in denial. Senator John Cornyn ought to be scared right now. His seat matters for the GOP to maintain control of the U.S. Senate.
Arrogance and complacency are two enemies of success. The GOP was thoroughly thrashed in the 2018 midterms. GOP officials told us they saw it coming—that they saw it coming and had no plan to head it off is political malpractice.
It is never too early to get energized about the 2020 election. Tuesday, November 3, 2020, will be here before we know it. I don’t want to be presiding over any postmortem the day after talking about how we lost the presidency, the Senate or God forbid, both. There are no guarantees in electoral politics. Just ask Hillary.
Easy to fix. Change how electoral votes are allocated...instead of “winner takes all” statewide, allocate them by Majority vote in each Congressional district, with two votes allocated to the majority of the state-wide vote. ALL states should do this. Who knows, some blue states might even turn red.
Go ask California.
We can't prevent it, the womb marches on.
Yep.
Revisionist history? To the limited extent the GOPe threw their weight behind Cruz in the Presidential primary it happened only after all other candidates had dropped out (JEB!!). It was strictly a stop Trump at all costs decision. I am sure behind the scenes the GOPe choked on supporting Cruz. Don’t get me wrong, I think Cruz went too far in the primary, some of his actions crossed a line. He could have definitely been more unifying at the convention as well.
We, well, some (el Puto) have forgotten the Alamo ...
It’s not radical liberals, it’s the Mexicans and Central Americans and generation upon generation of anchor babies. Let’s be real here.
Tragically, except for our brief anti-Amnesty insurrection in 2005-2006, Conservatives have done absolutely nothing consequential to stop massive legal and illegal immigration.
Non-white eligible voters in Texas vote about 75% Democrat.
Texas demographics as of 2018....
Non-Hispanic White - 41.5%
Hispanic - 39.6%
Black - 12.8%
Asian - 5.2%
Not all Hispanics and Asians are eligible voting residents - yet.
Many Black Texans are not eligible to vote because of felony convictions.
But, it's only a question of time before Texas goes permanently Democrat.
Time to storm the house. Taxation without representation is a legitimate claim for US Citizens who pay Federal taxes. Representing illegals is unconstitutional. This anybody but citizens deal was what won trump the election.
Unending mass legal immigration has done and is still doing more than illegal immigration to turn states and the nation as a whole blue.
Of course illegal immigration is part of the problem. There is an unknown amount of illegal voting by illegal aliens. Illegal aliens give birth to anchor baby citizens who grow up to vote Democrat. Illegal aliens boost the populations of Democrat areas and result in rotten burrows for Democrat house members. And when illegal aliens get amnesty, then they too can legally vote Democrat.
But the amount of Democrat-importing legal immigration since 1965 is much larger than the illegal invasion. And legal immigrants can legally vote as soon as they are naturalized.
Wherever you see formerly red states or red districts becoming blue, you’ll see either that lots of liberals from other states have move in and brought their leftist voting habits with them, or you’ll see a large influx of legal and illegal immigrants who heavily favor Democrats, or more likely, you’ll see both at play.
Personally I’d like to see immigration halted entirely until we remove the interlopers and assimilate the good ones.
Demographic shifts will give the progressives an advantage that state GOP organizations refuse to do anything about or even acknowledge.
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State GOP organizations have been controlled by progressives for 30 years to bring about those demographic changes and prevent the citizens from stopping them.
Millions of TX Republicans rarely vote at all. They can’t see the mortal danger that they are in.
In a land where people who leave places like California to escape the misery created by democrats turn around and vote democrat in Texas, the Carolinas or other states there is no hope. You cannot save people from their own idiocy. I am 75 and have a terminal illness so it won’t matter much to me personally but I simply cannot grasp how so many Americans can wake up every morning and act like total morons and no one but a moron votes democrat after moving to another state to escape the results of voting democrat.
IDIOCRACY actually is a documentary.
I’m not sure people understand how close Texas is to going Blue. Tarrant county is the last semi-red large population center. All the rest have been Blue for over a decade.
The GOPe wants Texas to go blue because that will move the GOP to left, too. Then all the GOP has to be is 1% to the right of the Democrats to garner the not bat poop crazy vote.
RINOs like Romney and Bush are far more comfortable and in agreement with Democrats on policy than they are with current GOP base voters. They want us marginalized and/or out of the GOP. Easiest way to do that is turn the country blue.
Merely dozens? Where's your enthusiasm?
I believe that in 2016, Asians voted at a higher percentage than Hispanics. Indian Americans are the most affluent and Democratic of any non-black minority group.
That sounds about right.
And considering how California has become a one-party state with a Democrat supermajority, you’d think that even slow learners like Hannity and the GOPe could figure out the connection with legal immigration. But apparently not.
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