Texas: The Blue Frontier

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In These Times: FEATURES » DECEMBER 22, 2014 Texas: The Blue Frontier

Texas won’t turn blue from the top down, but it may already be doing so from the ground up.

 

BY THEO ANDERSON

Have you heard the one about turning Texas blue?

 

It may seem like a joke after the midterm elections. Wendy Davis, the Democrats’ once-promising candidate for governor, got only 39 percent, and Republicans increased their majority in the state legislature.

 

Still, it’s easy to see why 33,000 volunteers gave their time last fall to Battleground Texas, a get-out-the-vote effort to deliver the Lone Star State to the Democrats. Though Texas ranks second to California in Electoral College votes, 55 to 38, no state looms as large on the U.S. political horizon. For conservatives, Texas embodies everything that makes America great. For progressives, it delivers one outsized and calamitous politician after another.

 

The idea that Democrats might “flip” the crown jewel of American conservatism has been great entertainment for pundits, whose speculation smacks of Christian end-times prophesying. Will it happen by 2024? Sooner? Ever? The New Republic published a classic of the genre in 2013, offering “eight charts explain[ing] why ‘blue Texas’ won’t happen.”

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The problem they had was Wendy Davis ("She's A One Trick Pony..One Trick Is All The Horse Can Do" Paul Simon) If you don't have a good candidate it don't matter how enthused your people are.

 

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