Part of how Abbott did it was having what turned out to be a weak opponent. Davis was hyped by an adoring media as a great Democrat hope, but she turned out to be terrible. Another part of it was that 2014 was great, wave-ish year for the GOP. Neither of those are likely in 2016.
I think Cruz will do well to repeat his reported 40% 2012 performance when he next faces Texas Hispanics, whether it’s 2016 or 2018. He’ll carry Texas by winning over 70% of the white vote. Nationally I don’t see Cruz doing much better with Hispanics than the average Republican performance.
But I would love to be proven wrong. I still think the best hope is to drastically reduce immigration levels and slow and eventually halt the pro-Democrat demographic transformation. But that doesn’t seem likely anytime soon so I really do hope someone like Cruz can be a game changer.
Hillary is Wendy Davis writ large. Name one thing she’s ever accomplished. Just one. She was beat in 2008 by someone who should never even been near the nomination, a joke candidate.
True. But the GOP could learn an important lesson from the Texas results: The candidate's share of the Hispanic vote was in direct proportion to the strength of their stance on border security.
Recall that Dan Patrick, the candidate for Lt. Gov., actually won a majority of the Hispanic vote. He ran as a "border hawk". And he was running against a well-known Latina pol -- not a shallow single-issue blonde.
Legal Hispanics are working Americans, too. And they want the border secured.
You sound so..... ‘concerned’.