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Maybe you are right, but Democrats in TX continued to win on policy and personnel even as their candidates went down to defeat statewide. The Democrats are really fighting hard to keep the same districting scheme. They say that if the Republicans had been more competitive, 20 of the 32 districts would already be in GOP hands, instead of just 15.

The Dem party is Texas is split..you have the conservative Blue Dogs, and the hard lib/left minority Dems, and all you keeping them together is Molly Beth Malcom.....(g)...the GOP will peel off enough minority Dems to pull this off...they'll give them a few safe districts, as well as guarantees that their legislative proposals will be considered....that's far more than the dem party as a whole can do for them...the recognize that they're swimming upstream against a big flood, they're trying to extract whatever concessions they can...I'll wager you that when the final vote comes, more than just the 1 or 2 Dems will vote for it...there's safety in numbers..