boutons_deux
07-21-2016, 11:41 AM
The fact that Republicans have won every Texas statewide office since 1994 — the longest such streak in the nation — gives them, he says, “a false sense of security.”
In 2000, Republican candidates at the top of the ticket — in statewide races — averaged about 60 percent of the vote.
By 2008, they averaged less than 53 percent.
And Republican down-ballot winners averaged slightly over 51 percent.
Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban (http://www.icip.iastate.edu/tables/population/urban-pct-states), making it the 15th-most-urban (http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/06/18/states-where-the-most-people-live-in-cities/9/) 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 (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Rice-survey-A-majority-of-Harris-County-7330219.php?t=97c138f66f438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium) 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 (http://traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/content/images/election_results/2012.11.06/20121106tccume.pdf) for President Obama in 2012.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-texas-become-another-brick-in-the-democrats-blue-wall/2016/07/20/08b55f5e-4de0-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1
In 2000, Republican candidates at the top of the ticket — in statewide races — averaged about 60 percent of the vote.
By 2008, they averaged less than 53 percent.
And Republican down-ballot winners averaged slightly over 51 percent.
Texas is not wide-open spaces filled with cattle and cotton fields. Actually, it is 84.7 percent urban (http://www.icip.iastate.edu/tables/population/urban-pct-states), making it the 15th-most-urban (http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/06/18/states-where-the-most-people-live-in-cities/9/) 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 (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Rice-survey-A-majority-of-Harris-County-7330219.php?t=97c138f66f438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium) 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 (http://traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/content/images/election_results/2012.11.06/20121106tccume.pdf) for President Obama in 2012.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-texas-become-another-brick-in-the-democrats-blue-wall/2016/07/20/08b55f5e-4de0-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1