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Oh my: Democrats launch plan to turn Texas blue

Jan. 24, 2013 10:16am Meredith Jessup

As Democrats cheer the beginning of for four more years of Democratic control in the White House this week, they’re also keeping their eye on the future and strategizing the best ways to hold onto political power in Washington. To that end, national Democrats have launched a large-scale independent group with a singular focus: turn traditionally conservative Texas into a contested battleground state.

It might sound far-fetched, but Democrats running “Battleground Texas” are poring over the Lone Star State’s demographic data and they like what they see. By engaging the state’s rapidly growing Latino population and urban concentrations of Democrats, the group hopes to turn this electoral dream into reality.

One look at the 2012 electoral map and you can see why they’re so optimistic:

According to Politico, Battleground Texas is stacking the deck with Democratic power players, including Jeremy Bird, former national field director for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign.

“With its diversity and size, Texas should always be a battleground state…” Bird says. “Over the next several years, Battleground Texas will focus on expanding the electorate by registering more voters — and as importantly, by mobilizing Texans who are already registered voters but who have not been engaged in the democratic process.”

With its growing population, the state of Texas is on track to have 42 electoral votes after the 2020 census, so expect this fight to be a long one.

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daisy k
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:56am
This site working?

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daisy k
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:55am
hmmm

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collegerepublic
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 3:41pm
This actually terrifies me! Do not doubt that they will spend millions of dollars to try to make their dream a reality, and if you give them a few years with no challenge from the republicans party they will see texas go purple at least. I have no doubt that the democrats will use every resource they can and every dollar they can get to start turning Texas.

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DasMouse
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 2:16pm
My plan is to retire in Texas BECAUSE it is not a Democrat state. The moment it becomes one (which I sincerely believe will not happen) my plan changes. I’m trying to escape the totalitarianism of New York there is no way I’m going to another Democrat controlled state.

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- daisy k
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:57am
  hmmm, i don’t think this site is working
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:37am
  daisy duke what the he!! are you talking about?
  
  mouse I agree with you. I’ve been hearing for several years now the libs are fanning out in their attempt to pollute every state they can with their mere presence. They have manage to ruin California, so now since their work is done there it’s time to move on. These creeps vote for higher taxes and unlimited benefits for illegals, then subsequently leave their state. The ******** are persistent if nothing else
  
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welldoneson
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:40am
This has been the evolution of Western civilization:
Academics tend to congregate in the larger population centres, where there tends to be more public money being thrown around in the form of education spending and tenure. Persons who have difficulty making a living, whether their fault or not, congregate in population centres for the same reason: public money being thrown around, though in the form of the poverty industry. Combine those two groups with the number of people working in education and the poverty industry, and you begin to get a plurality of people who favor more tax and spend because that’s where they have been getting their money.

It doesn’t take too long before you get an unstable society. Fewer and fewer producers financing more and more bureaucrats and other societal dependents make for a very unsustainable society. All we need to do in order to stop this cycle is to stop making people think they can have a job for life in the public sector OR an income for life for doing nothing.

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bekhiet
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:39am
Generally speaking hispanics are Christian (many Catholic) and pro-life. These issues alone could make Texas even more RED. Republicans should have no problem keeping Texas if strategies are used correctly.

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- Desertcatn
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 12:39pm
  I hear that said about Hispanics, but they are Catholic in Mexico and they don’t vote Conservative there. The current efforts of the GOP to attract Hispanics, relies on the same victim crap that the Dems offer, it is actually offensive. I quit the Nevada GOP because every time I wanted to contribute I was pushed into the Hispanic caucus. I want to speak as an American, not as the member of a group, with the assumption that because I’m a certain color, I think a certain way! I just hope that Texans (and all Americans) insist on voter id’s to be shown and that they look into the voting early message that is pushed so strong by the Dems; where there is smoke there is usually fire!
  
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perry1980
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:37am
As a Texan I say never gonna happen unless “That Guy” makes all 5 million Illegals Legal voters in this state.

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