Just Joshin' Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 How to win Texas is not to take your guns, eliminate oil and get rid of cattle. While the cities are blue the rest of Texas is deep red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 28 minutes ago, Just Joshin' said: How to win Texas is not to take your guns, eliminate oil and get rid of cattle. While the cities are blue the rest of Texas is deep red. Numbers. The cities have the numbers, just getting everyone to vote is the thing. Trump has helped a lot on that score! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 What do they know ? Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro fume that Biden has neglected Texas, demand ‘crunch time’ investment Dallas Morning News, by Todd J. Gilman Original Article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinga Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 54 minutes ago, Just Joshin' said: How to win Texas is not to take your guns, eliminate oil and get rid of cattle. While the cities are blue the rest of Texas is deep red. The only way Democrats can win Texas is by cheating, and they are certainly trying... https://www.katychristianmagazine.com/2020/10/01/alleged-voter-ballot-harvesting-goes-all-the-way-to-the-top-in-harris-county/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-elections-voting-2020-voting-4492d2abac08e101d4803a85d7385f77 Its an uprising of the people! Glorious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 45 minutes ago, Tiberius said: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-elections-voting-2020-voting-4492d2abac08e101d4803a85d7385f77 Its an uprising of the people! Glorious! Based on all the enthusiasm for Trump I would not be surprised if a lot of that early voting went for him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 On 10/23/2020 at 1:25 PM, Tiberius said: Numbers. The cities have the numbers, just getting everyone to vote is the thing. Trump has helped a lot on that score! About 80% of Americans now live in areas classified as "urban", which is, IIRC, means a municipal area of 50K residents or more. Numerous states have traditionally been dominated by 1 or 2 big metros starting in the 1960s when the SCOTUS required apportionment of all local and state representatives be based on one person, one vote. These include California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Washington. As population has shifted to the South and the West, these states have also become dominated by their big metros, primarily because that's where the migrants have settled but also because the rural areas everywhere in the country are emptying out. Now states like Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia have also come to be dominated by their large urban metros. This maps shows pretty well where Americans currently live: US Population Density Map 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 29 minutes ago, Chef Jim said: Based on all the enthusiasm for Trump I would not be surprised if a lot of that early voting went for him. ...I think you just killed Frank Luntz......LOL.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 8 minutes ago, SoTier said: About 80% of Americans now live in areas classified as "urban", which is, IIRC, means a municipal area of 50K residents or more. Numerous states have traditionally been dominated by 1 or 2 big metros starting in the 1960s when the SCOTUS required apportionment of all local and state representatives be based on one person, one vote. These include California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Washington. As population has shifted to the South and the West, these states have also become dominated by their big metros, primarily because that's where the migrants have settled but also because the rural areas everywhere in the country are emptying out. Now states like Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia have also come to be dominated by their large urban metros. This maps shows pretty well where Americans currently live: US Population Density Map South Carolina too! Imagine if the court in the 60’s allowed the rural areas all that power? God help us! We the people, not we the cow pastureland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tiberius said: South Carolina too! Imagine if the court in the 60’s allowed the rural areas all that power? God help us! We the people, not we the cow pastureland ...fertilizer is your strong suit......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 3 hours ago, Tiberius said: South Carolina too! Imagine if the court in the 60’s allowed the rural areas all that power? God help us! We the people, not we the cow pastureland The farmers of the country give you a nice ***** you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RochesterRob Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 8 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said: ...fertilizer is your strong suit......... Leaving his pants and underwear on the barn wall nail as he goes in to visit the heifers is his strong suit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backintheday544 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 8 hours ago, Tiberius said: South Carolina too! Imagine if the court in the 60’s allowed the rural areas all that power? God help us! We the people, not we the cow pastureland Republicans love to look at maps of the US that look red thinking property votes and not people. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 Texas: Trump vs. Biden Dallas Morning News* Trump 45, Biden 48 Biden +3 😇 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backintheday544 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 4 hours ago, Tiberius said: Texas: Trump vs. Biden Dallas Morning News* Trump 45, Biden 48 Biden +3 😇 The early vote turnout has me hopeful Texas finally turns blue. We typically know early voting highly favors Dems. Texas already hit 80 percent of the total voting in 2016! Those are insane numbers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 1 minute ago, Backintheday544 said: The early vote turnout has me hopeful Texas finally turns blue. We typically know early voting highly favors Dems. Texas already hit 80 percent of the total voting in 2016! Those are insane numbers. Insane! When that nut went through a Texas Walmart murdering Mexicans I'm sure he got the message through to Latinos that Trump's message was resonating with the nativists, and has energized their communities to vote. I mean, how couldn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tiberius Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 Democrats Hope 2020 Is the Year They Flip the Texas House Republicans have controlled the state government since 2003. An anti-Trump surge could give Democrats a crucial boost. BEDFORD, Texas — Deep in the suburbs northeast of Fort Worth, Democrats trying to win the Texas House for the first time in years have been getting help from a surprising source. Republicans. For 16 years, until he left office in 2013, Todd A. Smith was a Republican representing these suburbs in the Texas House of Representatives. His district covered a fast-growing hub of middle-class and affluent communities next door to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. When it came time to decide whom he would support for his old seat, Mr. Smith said he had no hesitation — he threw his endorsement to the Democrat in the race, Jeff Whitfield. “This is no longer my Republican Party,” Mr. Smith said last week while sitting outside his house, which has a “Republicans For Biden 2020” sign on the front lawn. “This is the Trump party,” he said. “If you give me a reasonable Republican and a crazy Democrat, then I will still vote for the Republican. But if you give me a lunatic Republican and a reasonable Democrat, then I’m going to vote for the Democrat, and that applies in the presidential race, and it applies in the Whitfield race.” After a generation under unified Republican control, Texas is a battleground at every level of government this year. President Trump and Senator John Cornyn are fighting for their political lives, and five Republican-held congressional seats are in danger of flipping. But some of the most consequential political battles in Texas are taking place across two dozen contested races for the Texas State House, which Republicans have controlled since 2003. To win a majority, Democrats must flip nine of the chamber’s 150 seats — the same number of Republican-held districts Beto O’Rourke carried during his 2018 Senate race, when he was the first Texas Democrat to make a competitive run for Senate or governor in a generation. Mr. O’Rourke has organized nightly online phone banks that are making about three million phone calls a week to voters during the campaign’s final stretch. His organization helped register about 200,000 Texas Democratic voters in an attempt to finish a political transformation of Texas that began with his Senate race. “I actually won more state House districts than Ted Cruz,” Mr. O’Rourke said in an interview last week. “It’s just that the candidates in nine of those, the Democratic candidates, didn’t end up winning.” Control of the Texas House comes with huge implications beyond the state’s borders. A Democratic state House majority in Texas would give the party one lever of power in the 2021 redistricting process, when the state is expected to receive as many as three new seats in Congress. It would also give them a voice in drawing Texas state legislative lines for the next decade. Officials from both parties said the difference between the current unified Republican control of the Texas state government and Democrats controlling the state House could be as many as five congressional seats when new maps are drawn. “Flipping the Texas House this year can be the key that unlocks a Democratic future in Texas,” said John Bisognano, the executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. “With fair maps, Democrats will be able to compete all over the state and build a deep bench of candidates who can run and win statewide.” Nowhere in the country has there been a surge of voting to match the one in Texas. Through two weeks of in-person early voting, more than 6.9 million Texans have voted — a figure that accounts for more than three-quarters of the entire 2016 turnout. The turnout is highest in the state’s biggest metropolitan areas, which are the core state House battlegrounds — and are six of the 10 fastest-growing counties in the country. There are five competitive state House seats in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, five more in other Dallas suburbs, and eight in greater Houston. “I’ve always been political my whole life,” said Gina Hinojosa, a state representative from Austin whose father is the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. “Now, suddenly, everybody is so political. The last election has had the result of engaging everyday people in our political process.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 Officials from both parties said the difference between the current unified Republican control of the Texas state government and Democrats controlling the state House could be as many as five congressional seats when new maps are drawn. “Flipping the Texas House this year can be the key that unlocks a Democratic future in Texas,” said John Bisognano, the executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. “With fair maps, Democrats will be able to compete all over the state and build a deep bench of candidates who can run and win statewide.” Nowhere in the country has there been a surge of voting to match the one in Texas. Through two weeks of in-person early voting, more than 6.9 million Texans have voted — a figure that accounts for more than three-quarters of the entire 2016 turnout. The turnout is highest in the state’s biggest metropolitan areas, which are the core state House battlegrounds — and are six of the 10 fastest-growing counties in the country. There are five competitive state House seats in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, five more in other Dallas suburbs, and eight in greater Houston. “I’ve always been political my whole life,” said Gina Hinojosa, a state representative from Austin whose father is the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. “Now, suddenly, everybody is so political. The last election has had the result of engaging everyday people in our political process.” Suburban voters do not appear to be buying Republican arguments during the Trump era that Democrats will turn their communities socialist. Polling in 10 targeted Texas state House districts shows Mr. Biden gaining an average of 8.6 percentage points, while Democratic state House candidates have gained 6.5 points since March in surveys conducted by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which has invested more than $1 million in Texas over the last two years. The suburban voters of 2020, said Steve Munisteri, a former Republican Party of Texas chairman who worked in Mr. Trump’s White House, have far more in common with urbanites than they do with the more conservative voters who used to populate the outer edges of Texas metropolitan areas. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/politics/texas-house-democrats-republicans.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Texas is changing. I remember going to the playoff game in Houston. I was amazed at all the tent cities beneath the overpasses. The irony is all of the Californians that fled from their high taxes, filthy streets, sanctuary cities and unsustainable programs, are bringing with them the exact same politics that caused them to leave in the first place. It truly seems to be a learning disorder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 10 hours ago, Brueggs said: Texas is changing. I remember going to the playoff game in Houston. I was amazed at all the tent cities beneath the overpasses. The irony is all of the Californians that fled from their high taxes, filthy streets, sanctuary cities and unsustainable programs, are bringing with them the exact same politics that caused them to leave in the first place. It truly seems to be a learning disorder. Just because socialism didn't work last time, doesn't mean it won't work this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 1 hour ago, unbillievable said: Just because socialism didn't work last time, doesn't mean it won't work this time. True. Maybe it will work better when people no longer have a choice... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, Brueggs said: True. Maybe it will work better when people no longer have a choice... Or when The People do have a choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 8 hours ago, Tiberius said: Or when The People do have a choice Right. People who have no understanding of what that entails, or those who would choose to move to move to Cuba or Venezuela, but cant, because they don't have the resources because they don't like to work in a capitalistic society. Did you ever wonder why no one is fleeing capitalism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Brueggs said: Right. People who have no understanding of what that entails, or those who would choose to move to move to Cuba or Venezuela, but cant, because they don't have the resources because they don't like to work in a capitalistic society. Did you ever wonder why no one is fleeing capitalism? Who are you talking about? The majority of citizens of this country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 4 hours ago, Brueggs said: Right. People who have no understanding of what that entails, or those who would choose to move to move to Cuba or Venezuela, but cant, because they don't have the resources because they don't like to work in a capitalistic society. Did you ever wonder why no one is fleeing capitalism? Most of the EU countries as well as Canada practice what American conservatives call "socialism", primarily universal health care and social programs to support low income citizens and retirees. Norway -- and maybe Sweden -- have much more expansive social programs. Yeah, people pay higher taxes in those countries but their standards of living and their political freedoms and processes aren't impinged upon because these countries are "socialist". Why isn't there a mass exodus from the EU countries today when they're largely "socialist" as opposed to when millions left those same countries in the late 19th century and early 20th century when capitalism was the economic system there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 13 hours ago, Tiberius said: Who are you talking about? The majority of citizens of this country? I don't know if its the majority, but about half sounds right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 10 hours ago, SoTier said: Most of the EU countries as well as Canada practice what American conservatives call "socialism", primarily universal health care and social programs to support low income citizens and retirees. Norway -- and maybe Sweden -- have much more expansive social programs. Yeah, people pay higher taxes in those countries but their standards of living and their political freedoms and processes aren't impinged upon because these countries are "socialist". Why isn't there a mass exodus from the EU countries today when they're largely "socialist" as opposed to when millions left those same countries in the late 19th century and early 20th century when capitalism was the economic system there? I have no problem with social programs. They are absolutely necessary. The problem that we have here, that many of the nations you mentioned do not, is that many of our citizens take advantage of the system who do not need it, taking away from those that do. I know this happens elsewhere, but not on the grand scale we have here. Also, many of those nations are equivalent to the size of a single state, with largely indigenous populations that teach their citizens to contribute to their society. They assume personal responsibilities that we have gotten away from. We have an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it. They are also more limited in their freedoms and not presented with nearly the same level of opportunities and ownership as we are. America has always thrived when the middle class was the strongest element of our society, but we are losing that. The problem with socialism, is that if its successful, it becomes communism. It goes against the grain of everything that this nation has built itself upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Brueggs said: I have no problem with social programs. They are absolutely necessary. The problem that we have here, that many of the nations you mentioned do not, is that many of our citizens take advantage of the system who do not need it, taking away from those that do. I know this happens elsewhere, but not on the grand scale we have here. Also, many of those nations are equivalent to the size of a single state, with largely indigenous populations that teach their citizens to contribute to their society. They assume personal responsibilities that we have gotten away from. We have an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it. They are also more limited in their freedoms and not presented with nearly the same level of opportunities and ownership as we are. America has always thrived when the middle class was the strongest element of our society, but we are losing that. The problem with socialism, is that if its successful, it becomes communism. It goes against the grain of everything that this nation has built itself upon. I think many programs help people reach their potential. Increases human capital. Has Social Security advanced communism in this country? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 7 hours ago, Brueggs said: I have no problem with social programs. They are absolutely necessary. The problem that we have here, that many of the nations you mentioned do not, is that many of our citizens take advantage of the system who do not need it, taking away from those that do. I know this happens elsewhere, but not on the grand scale we have here. Also, many of those nations are equivalent to the size of a single state, with largely indigenous populations that teach their citizens to contribute to their society. They assume personal responsibilities that we have gotten away from. We have an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it. They are also more limited in their freedoms and not presented with nearly the same level of opportunities and ownership as we are. America has always thrived when the middle class was the strongest element of our society, but we are losing that. The problem with socialism, is that if its successful, it becomes communism. It goes against the grain of everything that this nation has built itself upon. This is absolute bull manure. Democratic socialism has never morphed into communism anywhere. In fact, numerous western European nations have swapped captialist and social democratic governments repeatedly in the 65 years since the end of WW II. Communism has always been imposed upon a society/country by a small oligarchy of ideologues, just like fascism, both of which are simply forms of dictatorship. Democratic socialism has proven completely compatible with political democracy. You obviously know nothing about European societies not European history. I suggest you do some reading on it before you start blathering about it. Moreover, don't give me this bull manure about the US having "an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it". Just say it. You don't like brown people from Latin America or black people from Africa or the Caribbean or more brown people from Asia immigrating to the US. The very same xenophobic nonsense you're spouting about today's immigrants is the same xenophobic nonsense that nativists in the late 19th and early 20th century spouted spouted about my Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrant grandparents when they came to this country around the turn of the 20th century. They were full of crap then, and you are full of crap now. If the middle class is shrinking in this country, it's NOT because of social programs or immigrants but because of forty years of pro-wealth/pro-business government policies that have shifted the tax burden off the wealthy and onto the middle and working classes while depressing wages, gutting social supports for the poorest Americans, and limiting real access to opportunity by transferring the cost of public higher education from government (which is where it was for about a century before the 1980s) to individual students and their families. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, SoTier said: This is absolute bull manure. Democratic socialism has never morphed into communism anywhere. In fact, numerous western European nations have swapped captialist and social democratic governments repeatedly in the 65 years since the end of WW II. Communism has always been imposed upon a society/country by a small oligarchy of ideologues, just like fascism, both of which are simply forms of dictatorship. Democratic socialism has proven completely compatible with political democracy. You obviously know nothing about European societies not European history. I suggest you do some reading on it before you start blathering about it. Moreover, don't give me this bull manure about the US having "an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it". Just say it. You don't like brown people from Latin America or black people from Africa or the Caribbean or more brown people from Asia immigrating to the US. The very same xenophobic nonsense you're spouting about today's immigrants is the same xenophobic nonsense that nativists in the late 19th and early 20th century spouted spouted about my Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrant grandparents when they came to this country around the turn of the 20th century. They were full of crap then, and you are full of crap now. If the middle class is shrinking in this country, it's NOT because of social programs or immigrants but because of forty years of pro-wealth/pro-business government policies that have shifted the tax burden off the wealthy and onto the middle and working classes while depressing wages, gutting social supports for the poorest Americans, and limiting real access to opportunity by transferring the cost of public higher education from government (which is where it was for about a century before the 1980s) to individual students and their families. Your first problem is that you are trying to compare two very different countries, with considerable differences in population and demographics, assuming you are going to get the same results. You also make a lot of incorrect assumptions about me. I have three close friends in Europe, one in Germany, Praha and Belgium who I speak to regularly. I have also been married twice, both to "brown" woman, as you would put it. In your quest to expose my ignorance, you seem to have exposed your own, simply because I think differently than you do. I believe in the strengthening of our middle class and less government for our constitutional republic. If I wanted socialism for myself, I would pack up and move somewhere else. So, when a small class of elites manage the masses of people who now collectively have very little resources, there is no chance of them becoming oligarchs? I am sure they would never impose their will on the people, would they? Edited October 28, 2020 by Brueggs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brueggs Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 7 hours ago, Tiberius said: I think many programs help people reach their potential. Increases human capital. Has Social Security advanced communism in this country? Like I said, I am not against social programs, they are necessary. Social Security is not socialism, it is a social program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 55 minutes ago, Brueggs said: Like I said, I am not against social programs, they are necessary. Social Security is not socialism, it is a social program. All social programs are socialist. Reagan campaigned against Medicare because it was socialism. You, as an obvious Republican, want to make it seem like popular programs are not part of evil socialism, but they are. Democratic Socialism is popular in practice. Texas is a state that Biden doesn't need to win, but it is clear that it's more competitive than ever. Texas' shift from Lean Republican to Toss Up shouldn't come as a surprise. Recent polling in the state — both public and private - shows a 2-4 point race. That's pretty much in line with the hotly contested 2018 Senate race in the state where Sen. Ted Cruz narrowly defeated Rep. Beto O'Rourke 51 percent to 48 percent. A huge surge in early vote (as of October 26th, almost half of Texas' registered voters had already cast a ballot) suggests that we could see record turnout in a state that has added many new residents since 2016. That also adds a level of uncertainty to the equation. Statewide and district level polling show Biden running strong in and around metro suburban parts of the state, but underperforming with Latino voters. In his analysis of the New York Times/Siena poll (10/20-25) of the state, the New York Times' Nate Cohn writes that "Biden has a lead of only 57 percent to 34 percent among that group, somewhat beneath most estimates of Mrs. Clinton's support among Hispanic voters four years ago. The finding broadly tracks with national surveys, which have shown Mr. Trump improving among Hispanic voters compared with his 2016 standing. Similarly, Hispanic voters in the Times/Siena poll say they backed Mrs. Clinton by a margin of 60 percent to 29 percent." But, it's also the case that we don't have a whole lot of experience with Texas as a battleground state. Neither do national pollsters. In an analysis of polling errors in 2016 and 2018, my colleague David Wasserman wrote this week that polls in the Southwest "undershot Democrats' final margin in 17 of 19 cases, including by an average of 1.4 points in 2016 and 4.2 points in 2018." https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/bidens-path-270-widens-trumps-path-narrows-texas-moves-toss Nice article about both candidates paths to victory in the final week 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Publishing date: Oct 29, 2020 • Last Updated 3 hours ago • 5 minute read Article content (Bloomberg) — A dramatic surge in early voting across Texas cities is infusing fresh hope in Democrats’ dream of shaking Republicans’ once-solid grip on the state. From Austin to Houston, and in their sprawling suburbs, voter turnout is shattering records in Texas, which hasn’t gone for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. Polls show the party’s nominee, Joe Biden, within striking distance of President Donald Trump, and the Cook Political Report on Wednesday moved Texas to a “toss up” from “leans Republican.” Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, will visit Houston, Fort Worth and McAllen this week. More than 8 million Texans had cast ballots by Tuesday, representing about 90% of the entire vote in 2016. Rapidly growing and increasingly diverse suburbs are the sites of some of the biggest upticks in early voting, and Democrats point to a surge in female voters as cause for optimism. Unmarried women make up a third of the Texans voting in this election who didn’t cast a ballot in 2016, according to the party’s state headquarters. “We as Democrats are voting like our lives depend on it,” said Cynthia Ginyard, chair of the Democratic Party in Fort Bend, a fast-growing county that encompasses Houston suburbs such as Sugar Land and Katy and has come to embody the demographic shifts that Democrats are seeking to capture. https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/democrats-dream-of-flipping-texas-with-early-vote-exploding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backintheday544 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Tiberius said: Publishing date: Oct 29, 2020 • Last Updated 3 hours ago • 5 minute read Article content (Bloomberg) — A dramatic surge in early voting across Texas cities is infusing fresh hope in Democrats’ dream of shaking Republicans’ once-solid grip on the state. From Austin to Houston, and in their sprawling suburbs, voter turnout is shattering records in Texas, which hasn’t gone for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. Polls show the party’s nominee, Joe Biden, within striking distance of President Donald Trump, and the Cook Political Report on Wednesday moved Texas to a “toss up” from “leans Republican.” Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, will visit Houston, Fort Worth and McAllen this week. More than 8 million Texans had cast ballots by Tuesday, representing about 90% of the entire vote in 2016. Rapidly growing and increasingly diverse suburbs are the sites of some of the biggest upticks in early voting, and Democrats point to a surge in female voters as cause for optimism. Unmarried women make up a third of the Texans voting in this election who didn’t cast a ballot in 2016, according to the party’s state headquarters. “We as Democrats are voting like our lives depend on it,” said Cynthia Ginyard, chair of the Democratic Party in Fort Bend, a fast-growing county that encompasses Houston suburbs such as Sugar Land and Katy and has come to embody the demographic shifts that Democrats are seeking to capture. https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/democrats-dream-of-flipping-texas-with-early-vote-exploding Not going in the record saying it will happen but I think Biden takes Texas based on early voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Just now, Backintheday544 said: Not going in the record saying it will happen but I think Biden takes Texas based on early voting. I'm hopeful. I bet there are a lot of people voting who did not before and maybe the polls are not picking them up. Go Texas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backintheday544 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 19 minutes ago, Tiberius said: I'm hopeful. I bet there are a lot of people voting who did not before and maybe the polls are not picking them up. Go Texas! here’s an encouraging stat from WaPo If the country sees a 13 percent increase in voting this year and that’s reflected in Texas’s total vote, the state will see 10.2 million voters in 2020. If those who’ve already voted preferred Biden by seven points, Trump would need to win the day-of vote by 17 points to win the state. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/27/2020 at 2:41 AM, unbillievable said: Just because socialism didn't work last time, doesn't mean it won't work this time. We just haven't tried real socialism yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBBills Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 9 hours ago, Tiberius said: I'm hopeful. I bet there are a lot of people voting who did not before and maybe the polls are not picking them up. Go Texas! You know it's bad when a president can drive Texas into the Blue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 14 hours ago, TBBills said: You know it's bad when a president can drive Texas into the Blue. It's also a sign of the change taking place in the country. But ya, Texas is surprising. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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