A sobering reminder to the GOP regarding Texas...

[nat4900]

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George F. Will has long been one of the most articulate spokesperson for conservative causes. However, since Romney and now Trump, Will has become a lonely (and maligned) voice of reason for the GOP.

Here are some excerpts form his recent "opinion" piece and the demographic data regarding TX speak for themselves. (A reminder 270 electoral votes are all thatare needed to become president.)

Will Texas become another brick in the Democrats’ blue wall?


Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban, making it the 15th-most-urban state. It has four of the nation’s 11 largest cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. Texas’s growth is in its cities, where Republicans are doing worst.

Dallas has gone from solidly Republican to solidly Democratic. A recent poll showed Harris County (Houston), which is about 69 percent minority, with a majority identifying as Democrats. The San Antonio metropolitan area is about three-quarters minority. Travis County (Austin, seat of the state government, the flagship state university and a burgeoning tech economy attracting young people) voted 60.1 percent for

Asian Americans, Texas’s fastest-growing minority by percentage, were about 3 percent of Texans in 2000 and about 4 percent in 2010. They are projected to be more than 8 percent in 2040.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. Texas, which is not a brick in this wall, has 38 electoral votes. After the 2020 Census, it probably will have 40, perhaps 41. Were Texas to become another blue brick, the wall — even if the 2020 Census subtracted a few electoral votes from the current 18 states — would have more than the 270 votes needed to elect a president.

Since 1994, when it passed New York (which has now sunk below Florida to fourth place), Texas has been the nation’s second-most-populous state. [Texas} is the Republican Party’s only large “anchor state.” The Democratic Party has two — California and New York, with a combined 84 electoral votes. Or three, if you count Illinois (20 electoral votes), which in the past four presidential elections has voted Democratic by an average of slightly more than 16 points.

 

[JakeStarkey]

This needs to be repeated over and over.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. George Will. When Texas becomes blue, the GOP becomes a minority party forever. Tx may become blue in 2020, certainly no later than 2024.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Yeah we saw how "blue" Texas was when Abbot sent Abortion Barbie packing

 

[Dragonlady]

Yeah we saw how "blue" Texas was when Abbot sent Abortion Barbie packing

Yeah but she was right and the law was overturned by the Supreme Court. More and more of these pointless and restrictive laws will fall.

If you believe abortion is wrong, don't have one. Other people having abortions is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

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George F. Will has long been one of the most articulate spokesperson for conservative causes. However, since Romney and now Trump, Will has become a lonely (and maligned) voice of reason for the GOP.

Here are some excerpts form his recent "opinion" piece and the demographic data regarding TX speak for themselves. (A reminder 270 electoral votes are all thatare needed to become president.)

Will Texas become another brick in the Democrats’ blue wall?


Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban, making it the 15th-most-urban state. It has four of the nation’s 11 largest cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. Texas’s growth is in its cities, where Republicans are doing worst.

Dallas has gone from solidly Republican to solidly Democratic. A recent poll showed Harris County (Houston), which is about 69 percent minority, with a majority identifying as Democrats. The San Antonio metropolitan area is about three-quarters minority. Travis County (Austin, seat of the state government, the flagship state university and a burgeoning tech economy attracting young people) voted 60.1 percent for

Asian Americans, Texas’s fastest-growing minority by percentage, were about 3 percent of Texans in 2000 and about 4 percent in 2010. They are projected to be more than 8 percent in 2040.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. Texas, which is not a brick in this wall, has 38 electoral votes. After the 2020 Census, it probably will have 40, perhaps 41. Were Texas to become another blue brick, the wall — even if the 2020 Census subtracted a few electoral votes from the current 18 states — would have more than the 270 votes needed to elect a president.

Since 1994, when it passed New York (which has now sunk below Florida to fourth place), Texas has been the nation’s second-most-populous state. [Texas} is the Republican Party’s only large “anchor state.” The Democratic Party has two — California and New York, with a combined 84 electoral votes. Or three, if you count Illinois (20 electoral votes), which in the past four presidential elections has voted Democratic by an average of slightly more than 16 points.

I have written this many times and with Donald John Trump as the GOP Presidential Candidate Texas could go Blue this November... It will not change the Governor nor will it affect Ted Cruz or Cornyn but if Trump loses Texas then Ohio will not matter nor will Florida because Clinton will be the next President...

Trump best hope is Johnson and Jill Stein hurt Clinton enough to swing a state red and if not then he is toast...

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Yeah we saw how "blue" Texas was when Abbot sent Abortion Barbie packing

Non-Presidential Election year so less people vote, but don't let that get in your way with thinking Trump can't lose Texas...

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Yeah we saw how "blue" Texas was when Abbot sent Abortion Barbie packing

Non-Presidential Election year so less people vote, but don't let that get in your way with thinking Trump can't lose Texas...

Trump isn't going to lose Texas, you jokes live in some alternate universe.

 

[JakeStarkey]

This needs to be repeated over and over.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. George Will. When Texas becomes blue, the GOP becomes a minority party forever. Tx may become blue in 2020, certainly no later than 2024.

And you'll be jumping for joy Fake the Leftist.

No, I won't. If the GOP, however, refuses to recreate itself as a modern 21st century party, a liberal America is inevitable.

Americans despise the 20% that make up the far right.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yeah we saw how "blue" Texas was when Abbot sent Abortion Barbie packing

Non-Presidential Election year so less people vote, but don't let that get in your way with thinking Trump can't lose Texas...

Trump isn't going to lose Texas, you jokes live in some alternate universe.

Sassy my lassy, we are talking about the future. Tx is red this year, but ID and UT and AZ and CO may not be. Amazing year.

 

[OldLady]

Maine, with its whopping 4 electoral votes, is predicted to go purple from blue. (We can split our votes in our two Districts). Not that anyone cares because it would only be 2 votes each. My point is, these "blue" states and "red" states just show how a state has voted in the past. It doesn't mean they HAVE to vote that way. I think campaigns make too much of it, especially this year when nothing is going according to plan.

 

[nat4900]

Sassy my lassy, we are talking about the future

That simple factor (that we're talking about the future 2020 or 2024) simply escapes the right wing morons...as the Irish Lass certainly is.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Sassy my lassy, we are talking about the future

That simple factor (that we're talking about the future 2020 or 2024) simply escapes the right wing morons...as the Irish Lass certainly is.

See? Anytime someone disagrees with you off you go with your name calling, it's really time to grow up. If you can't take it stop posting your nonsense

 

[nat4900]

Keep in mind that republicans need to "defend" more than 2 dozen Senate seats this year......

...AND, As an added "unforced error", Trump JUNIOR's speech the other night derided public school teachers, so there goes yet another constituency within the anti-Trump brigade.

 

[nat4900]

See? Anytime someone disagrees with you off you go with your name calling, it's really time to grow up. If you can't take it stop posting your nonsense

Well, when someone CANNOT distinguish "past" from "future," what would you call that person?

 

[nat4900]

^^^ Thinks public school teachers vote anything but what their unions tell them to vote

true.......and if ANY of those teachers wanted to break away from that "union demand", Trump Jr. opens his mouth and made sure that they'd toe the line and vote as the unions have told them to vote.

 

[whitehall]

What's the point? Americans have been painfully aware of the radicalism in Texas since five Police Officers were assassinated but Texas is bigger than radicalism. The sad thing is that George Will hasn't been "right" about much in the last decade. He turned out to be an establishment hack after all.

 

[Dana7360]

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George F. Will has long been one of the most articulate spokesperson for conservative causes. However, since Romney and now Trump, Will has become a lonely (and maligned) voice of reason for the GOP.

Here are some excerpts form his recent "opinion" piece and the demographic data regarding TX speak for themselves. (A reminder 270 electoral votes are all thatare needed to become president.)

Will Texas become another brick in the Democrats’ blue wall?


Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban, making it the 15th-most-urban state. It has four of the nation’s 11 largest cities — Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. Texas’s growth is in its cities, where Republicans are doing worst.

Dallas has gone from solidly Republican to solidly Democratic. A recent poll showed Harris County (Houston), which is about 69 percent minority, with a majority identifying as Democrats. The San Antonio metropolitan area is about three-quarters minority. Travis County (Austin, seat of the state government, the flagship state university and a burgeoning tech economy attracting young people) voted 60.1 percent for

Asian Americans, Texas’s fastest-growing minority by percentage, were about 3 percent of Texans in 2000 and about 4 percent in 2010. They are projected to be more than 8 percent in 2040.

The “blue wall” — the 18 states and the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive presidential elections — today has 242 electoral votes. Texas, which is not a brick in this wall, has 38 electoral votes. After the 2020 Census, it probably will have 40, perhaps 41. Were Texas to become another blue brick, the wall — even if the 2020 Census subtracted a few electoral votes from the current 18 states — would have more than the 270 votes needed to elect a president.

Since 1994, when it passed New York (which has now sunk below Florida to fourth place), Texas has been the nation’s second-most-populous state. [Texas} is the Republican Party’s only large “anchor state.” The Democratic Party has two — California and New York, with a combined 84 electoral votes. Or three, if you count Illinois (20 electoral votes), which in the past four presidential elections has voted Democratic by an average of slightly more than 16 points.

I'm very proud to be in one of those "blue wall" states and of the fact that my state's electoral votes haven't gone to a republican in 32 years.

I don't know about Texas going blue, maybe purple but it won't matter much beyond presidency and senate elections because of the gerrymandering in that state.

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Yeah we saw how "blue" Texas was when Abbot sent Abortion Barbie packing

Non-Presidential Election year so less people vote, but don't let that get in your way with thinking Trump can't lose Texas...

Trump isn't going to lose Texas, you jokes live in some alternate universe.

Not this year, no. But Trump is putting in play some traditionally Red states like Utah and Arizona. This article is talking about demographics, but this line of reasoning usually makes two bad assumptions:

1. Hispanics will vote Democrat: Trump has helped push Hispanics firmly into the Democrats corner this year (as well as blacks, women, and other minorities), but culturally Hispanics tend to have more in common with Republicans than Democrats if the GOP could learn to clean up their nearly racist dialogue around closing the border. Securing the border and fixing the immigration problem should be as apolitical as it gets and somehow the GOP keeps turning it into a lightning rod with their dialogue.

2. If Texas goes blue it likely won't matter. There are other states that are going from Red to Purple and Purple to Blue for similar reasons faster than Texas is. By the time Texas is solidly Blue, the GOP would be a completely irrelevant presence in other states.

 

[nat4900]

What's the point? Americans have been painfully aware of the radicalism in Texas since five Police Officers were assassinated but Texas is bigger than radicalism

This nitwit will now blame the death of 5 police officers on Texas becoming blue???
.....and the current GOP has no room for Will or the articulate Buckley because that party is becoming anachronistic in the changing demographics of US cities and states.

 

[ptbw forever]

For those who don't want to read this rehashed crap for a 100th time, it can all be paraphrased as such:
"pander to minorities more and bash white people like Democrats do, because we swear it will work this time".

Idiots like George Will are the reason why states like Texas could go Democrat in the future, and the reason why bumbfuck Colorado IS blue. The demographics of this country is a POLITICAL fight, just as anything else is in the grand scheme of things, and that should have been what the "Reagan Revolution" was actually about.

Instead of embracing "changing demographics" knowing it was a crippling attack on the very survival of their party, Republicans should have fought Ted Kennedy and even Reagan to a draw on immigration over and over again until they bowed down to the supposed representatives of a 90% white country for fear of permanent political irrelevance. There should have never been a Tea Party or a Trump campaign because the Republicans should have immediately stolen the white working class vote as soon as Democrats even thought about changing the immigration policy of this country.

It is extremely sad when Trump's populist, "radical middle" constituency is doing more damage to Democrats and the batshit crazy cultural marxist social justice warriors than Republicans ever have with a supposed "right wing" platform. Get some fucking balls George and kick some left wingers in theirs.