If Texas turns blue, it's good night for the GOP for quite some time

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If Texas turns blue, it's good night for the GOP for quite some time

Author: Chris94 (36754 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 1:09 pm on Aug 12, 2019

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I am still a skeptic - especially for 2020 - but there is a very rapid change going on in Texas. First, the educated people in the suburbs are turned off by Trump. And second, Latinos - 40-45% of whom were reliable GOP voters in the Bush era - are apparently not happy about being called "invaders." I guess the GOP strategists just did not see that coming.

If this were to happen, and if it turned out to be sustainable, there would be no more GOP presidents in our lifetime. Might just be anti-Trump momentum...but the young people of Texas appear to be like young people everywhere - they are turning against the GOP in enormous numbers. Four GOP House members are retiring, which is certainly due to what their internal polling is telling them.

Lots of numbers here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/08/politics/could-texas-go-blue-2020/index.html

Link: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/12/texas-republicans-2020-elections-1456161

Replies to: "If Texas turns blue, it's good night for the GOP for quite some time"

If Texas turns blue, it's good night for the GOP for quite some time [LINK] - Chris94 - 1:09pm 8/12/19 (44) [View All]
- One party rule (by either party) would be devastating to The Republic. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 8:05pm 8/12/19
  - Agreed. The GOP would probably still hold the senate, even if Texas turns blue. - Chris94 - 8:11pm 8/12/19
- That would effectively dissolve the border between Texas and Mexico. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 6:59pm 8/12/19
- Just keep nominating an old white retard or a corrupt white crook, even a yellow TX won't help you. [NT] - Eli - 5:25pm 8/12/19
  - You mean like the one we have in office right now? He’s both. [NT] - Frank L - 8:22pm 8/12/19
- Much of your perspective is incorrect. Most - WestCoastIrishFan - 1:49pm 8/12/19
  - Not just his perspective. Some conservatives are already talking about it. [NT] - Frank L - 2:10pm 8/12/19
    - Looking self in mirror is good. Liberals never do. HCR got worst white vote in last 3 decades at 37% - Eli - 5:49pm 8/12/19
    - the risk of so willingly allowing the federal government to dominate what really should be left to - WestCoastIrishFan - 3:54pm 8/12/19
      - Federal elections "really should be left to the states"? Thanks, Gov. Wallace. [NT] - Chris94 - 4:04pm 8/12/19
        I'm not saying that, at all. The federal goverment has grown at the expense of state's rights, and - WestCoastIrishFan - 4:24pm 8/12/19
- Not in 2020. But 2024 and after, distinct possibility. - Frank L - 1:38pm 8/12/19
  - Correct on 2020, because we sure as hell know Hispanics won't turn out for Biden - Cole - 1:44pm 8/12/19
    - Biden is up 8 points in Texas - Chris94 - 2:28pm 8/12/19
      - I would put little faith in polls at this point... [NT] - TNIRISH - 2:37pm 8/12/19
        Maybe, but I'd put even less faith in Cole's "gut feeling" - LehighND - 4:49pm 8/12/19
        Blasphemer! [NT] - Chris94 - 4:58pm 8/12/19
        
        Agree, but it isn’t a sure thing either way. [NT] - Frank L - 2:49pm 8/12/19
        Trump would be foolish to take any state for granted. - NedoftheHill - 11:27pm 8/12/19
        
        Absolutely true. [NT] - Chris94 - 2:39pm 8/12/19
      - Then you should nominate him. [NT] - Cole - 2:31pm 8/12/19
        I don't actually nominate people. - Chris94 - 4:05pm 8/12/19
    - Is that the royal “we”. [NT] - Frank L - 2:10pm 8/12/19
      - No. You're means you're. [NT] - Cole - 2:13pm 8/12/19
        “ we sure as hell know” Again is that the royal we or who are you speaking for? [NT] - Frank L - 2:17pm 8/12/19
        "We" means anyone one with an objective brain. [NT] - Cole - 2:20pm 8/12/19
        That’s my point. It leaves you out of the mix. [NT] - Frank L - 2:22pm 8/12/19
        So you think Hispanics will be excited about Biden. More great judgment from you. [NT] - Cole - 2:25pm 8/12/19
        Now it’s excited? Thought it was turn out for. Who knows at this point, cept for the moronic “we’s” - Frank L - 2:29pm 8/12/19
        Won't turn out for Biden is the same as not being excited to vote for him. You know the point is - Cole - 2:39pm 8/12/19
        No it isn’t. They may turn out for him because of Orange, not excitement. What % of Orange voters - Frank L - 2:49pm 8/12/19
        "Not it isn't" and I'm the dummy. [NT] - Cole - 3:02pm 8/12/19
        Yes you are...... Bob Barr. [NT] - Frank L - 3:09pm 8/12/19
- Do you think you can put Hispanic voters on the Democratic plantation with black voters? [LINK] - Cole - 1:19pm 8/12/19
- and thus the Left's shifted stance to unfettered immigration but did you see that MN is in play? - BaronVonZemo - 1:15pm 8/12/19
  - Right except illegal immigrants don't vote so this is idiotic. [NT] - Chris94 - 1:19pm 8/12/19
    - and thus your opposition to voter ID and illegal immigration "amnesty" [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 1:19pm 8/12/19
      - Where there is no iron clad system of voter ID no one really knows who votes - CC72 - 1:26pm 8/12/19
      - The real shift is in the suburbs, Baron, among the educated - Chris94 - 1:22pm 8/12/19
        Educated? I think you mean “indoctrinated” since kindergarten by left wing “progressive” teachers - CC72 - 1:29pm 8/12/19
        Facts is facts. Trump relies on the nation's dumbasses. [NT] - Chris94 - 1:35pm 8/12/19
        Biden: "we choose truth over facts." [NT] - Cole - 1:52pm 8/12/19
        
        The Left needs to feel smarter than their opposition, so they tell themselves these things. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 1:33pm 8/12/19
        
        Uh huh. Like 2016. "It's the economy, stupid" - BaronVonZemo - 1:26pm 8/12/19