Posted on 10/27/2014 7:30:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Do you really think Wendy Davis is going to win?” I asked Jenn Brown, the executive director of Battleground Texas. “I sure do,” she replied. Brown and her top staff may be the only people in Texas who think that Democrat Davis, who is running for governor, can defeat Republican Greg Abbott next week. But the larger question is whether Battleground Texas’s strategy of turning Texas Blue, which is currently married to Davis’s candidacy, can over the next two, four, or six years make Texas, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994, or voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976, competitive again.
Battleground’s strategy, as it was presented to me during a recent visit to Texas, relies primarily on demographic trends within the state. Texas has already become a majority-minority state like California. According to 2013 census figures, only 44 percent of Texans are “Anglos,” or whites; 38.4 percent are Hispanic; 12.4 percent African-American; and the remainder Asian-American and native American. By 2020, Hispanics are projected by the Texas State Data Center to account for 40.5 percent of Texans and African-Americans for 11.3 percent compared to 41.1 percent of Anglos. Texas’s minorities generally favor Democrats over Republicans, but they don’t vote in as great a proportion as Anglos who have favored Republicans by similar percentages. Battleground’s strategy assumes that if it and other organizations like the Texas Organizing Project can get many more minorities, and particularly Hispanics, to the polls, then, as minorities increasingly come to outnumber Anglos, Democrats can take back the state...
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Indeed. That would certainly help. What would help more? A Conservative Leader that can unite as many people as possible by clearly articulating what a Conservative government can do for them.
If that Leader doesn’t arise soon (and a Leader is different than someone who says things we like) then it is all over but the shouting.
wendy davis is the worst candidate in the history of crappy candidates. texas dems need to be more careful before they let the national media pick their candidate for governor again.
Once you start cheating in the elections, it’s like crack cocaine.
Laz - looks like your idea is for such a time as this.
If wishes were horses.....
I can only imagine what you people would’ve said about Governor Reagan had this site been around in 1980. No one is good enough for you, are they?
I have actually started thinking about moving out of my beloved state in the next 10 years if it goes like some think it will. I will stay and fight until then but end the end you cannot beat back locusts, especially with no border.
Red is Communist, kids.
yep...many conservatives are purists...hence we have Obama as Prez at the moment, due to the fact that Romney was not far enough right on many of the issues...they stayed home..
Reagon was a realist and that just isn’t good enough these days.
Dems on the other hand don’t care about issues.. only skin color and free money... makes it easy for them.
A vote for Davis is a vote for a dildo.
Moving to Texas next year with my wife away from Cali. Near Austin but in Red Williamson County
Reagan have been demonized for not being willing to fall on his sword for every single issue, had FR been around in 1980. “Why, he’s a FORMER DEMOCRAT!!!” they would cry...
Not only that, but as pointed out on the other thread, the country is not the “right of center” place it was in 1980. Reagan was smart enough to pick his battles, but today that just gets a candidate vilified for not being all things to all voters.
“The perfect is always the enemy of the good”
I'm sure she only regrets that her dildo was unable to put her through law school. but then, she would have missed out on that whole cool abortion experience thing.
There you go again with that ‘purist’ crap. If you think Romney is a conservative, you are sadly mistaken.
He is so far better than the joke we are suffering with now!!
If they can get enough old Chevy's with their trunks full of ballots marked for the dem/marxist candidates its possible. Ref Minnesota.
The red pill is truth. The blue pill is willful ignorance.
Sorry, but it is all over but the shouting
Too many Conservatives are under the delusion that if we can just find someone, anyone who could articulate our positions well, Hispanics and even Blacks will "wake up" and naturally become conservatives. The “Duuuhhh Hispanics go to church, so that means they are Conservatives” posters we see here.
Sorry, not even Ronald Reagan on steroids can do that magic.
Well for starters you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into and secondly what Whites don’t get is that other groups put their race above all.
Call it Ethic pride or Tribalism or whatever, but to them that trumps all and things like Liberty, the Constitution, Self Determination are meaningless terms. Democrats pander to their race, which is why they will always vote for them.
Nope, in EVERY case. That the Republicans would swallow the Orwellian newspeak Election Night 2000 color switcheroo without raising holy hell speaks to their being gutless wonders. I will say it and correct it every time it is willfully misapplied. RED is the color of the totalitarian left, the Communists, the Fascists, the Democrats. BLUE is the color of Conservatism.
Better to be dead than a RED.
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