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And things like this are why I really hate to hear “Democrat voters suck!”.
Somehow, the GOTP has become nothing but pandering to their base.
The Democrats, meanwhile, have become all about ignoring their base to chase the people who won’t vote for them anyway.
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The GOPers have a problem. They support pen carry and lax gun laws which would allow for and enable mass shootings and terrorist attacks yet they say they hate terrorists and esp. Muslims.
It’s a conundrum. Do I support this guy?
Or do I opt for sanity?
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He’s white, has a flag, and a bible.
Therefore he’s a patriot.
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So she was willing to use her platform as a gubernatorial candidate to educate voters in a very anti-abortion state on reproductive rights but not on reasonable gun laws?
It is EXTREMELY difficult in states like TX for a Democrat to run for state wide office and all too easy for those of us out side TX to sit in judgment. But if TX is ever going to be in play for Democrats again, the voters have to be educated about what Democrats stand for by Democrats and not continue to be defined by Republican demagoguery. Wendy made a choice to do exactly this on reproductive rights and threw meaningful gun laws under the bus. She knew she had zero chance of winning going in, and should should have done both issues. It was a missed opportunity that she clearly regrets now.
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This was the MO of all the blue dogs and why they lost in a wave.
Texas is turning purple because the minority population will shortly over take the white Christian freak vote. Before a decade is out if not before then.
So, in order to get elected she should have also going full-on Pro-Life-Abolish-Planned-Parenthood and then used her platform as Governor to “educate” people?
Because that’s the logic you just used on guns.
What a shock!! A politician who told people what they wanted to hear in order to get votes. Next we will have articles that claim politicians lie.
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ISIS: Texas is how we want the world to be. Its all we can hope for: Guns for everyone, Religion, no LGBT rights, Women as 2nd class citizens etc.
And no State Income Tax - Allah O Akbar.
Tell you what, Wendy - your campaign was really lame and disappointing. You run again, and I hope you do, you get better campaign managers. Your TV ads were just terrible and you took positions all over the place instead of standing pat on being a Democrat. You can do much better and I really hope you do next time.
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Except that Republicans generally receive between 40-45% of the Hispanic vote, so unless Hispanics become the Majority, the GOP will continue to own Texas.
Demonstrating again why Marines aren’t known for their brains:
http://www.pewresearch.org/files/old-assets/publications/2012HispanicVoting.png
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That may very well be true, but I don’t think that negates my point. If you want to really flip the entire state including the congressional delegation, you have to educate voters on what democrats stand for. Simply taking over the Governor’s mansion through rising non-white voters will only give you a highly polarized state and more gridlock. I wouldn’t wish the Congress Obama confronts on any executive, and that is exactly what will happen in TX if it is flip solely on non-white voters.
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Not at all. If the electorate is such that Texas becomes purple, it will also flip the legislature. The fact that minorities are becoming the majority is an issue the Republicans can only manipulate for so long before it catches up.
Thanks, Meri. Saved me some time.
Well, you know, maff is hard.
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Not in Texas. In 2014, Gov Abbot received 44% of the Hispanic vote and Sen Cornyn received a plurality of the Hispanic vote 48% to the Democrat’s 47%.
I thought the topic was Texas turning purple because of minority vote. You instead tried to change the subject to Presidential election and national voting trends.
Maff is hard for liberals but not as hard as understanding facts.
in 2012 Democrats running for Congress received 600,000 more votes than did Republicans running for Congress. Congress was not flipped. This is because of very clever redistricting in 2010 to concentrate non-whites in districts and thereby creating more heavily Republican districts. The US is going to suffer from this gerrymandering for many years to come.
It’s naive to think that by simply getting more Democratic voters in TX you will then retake the state legislative seats necessary to redistrict the Congressional seats.
If you want a more progressive nation in which to live, you must to convince all voters that your policies are the right policies.
What you suggest is simply a recipe for more of this hateful gridlock we currently suffer under.
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That will only happen if Democrats are allowed to make the 11 million or illegal aliens voting eligible.