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Two-woman ticket in Texas goes for history in 2014
Full article here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...01-01-15-51-49AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Forget whether Hillary Clinton could win the White House in 2016. Women still have yet to run many statehouses, but in 2014 two Texas Democrats are going for a new kind of history: Winning as an all-female ticket for governor and lieutenant governor.
Woven into one of the nation's most intriguing gubernatorial races this year is whether Democrat Wendy Davis, whose 11-hour filibuster over abortion restrictions catapulted the state senator to national fame this summer, can not only overcome long odds in a fiercely Republican state but pull off a political first.
If Davis and fellow state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who is running for lieutenant governor, prevail in their March primaries as expected, they'll form what political experts say is only the fifth time in at least the past 20 years that a party has nominated women for both governor and lieutenant governor.
None of these pairings has ever won - nor have a woman governor and lieutenant governor ever served concurrently. Arizona in 1998 picked five women to the state's top executive offices, including then-attorney general Janet Napolitano, though the state has no lieutenant governor.
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Teabaggers are already savaging Wendy, bringing out gender politics at their ugliest. I can only see it getting worse as things heat up. Leticia van de Putte is Hispanic, as is almost 40% of the Texas population. That's more red meat for teabaggers. The GOP lost the female vote by 12 points in 2012 with their anti-woman rhetoric and policies. They lost just about every minority out there, including Hispanics by 71%. I'm very curious to see if they'll throw caution to the wind and bring gender and race politics into the election for governor and if there will be a significant enough backlash to make a difference.
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"Abortion Barbie"
Don't you get it, anyone doesn't advocate for the strict prohibition of abortion is a de facto advocate for ABORTIONS FOR EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME!!!
I mean, what could go wrong with prohibition?
"wimmens equal rights" in TX is equal shooting right when finding hubby in bed with another woman
... exemplifies how the Repugs get the dumb , ignorant single-issue Bible-thumpers to vote for Repug and against their own best interests, esp the poor rural folk denied Medicaid coverage.
The abortion thing is what it is. What has baffled me for a long time is the insistence on diminishing or downgrading the value of an education; whatever else might be true of Wendy Davis's views, she's incredibly well-educated and I would think that, societally, we'd want to laud that rather than diminishing her (or others) who've achieved in that way. It seems to have become a pervasive thing in our political discourse. It's bizarre.
Thanks b, I slipped up on that one
Not to mention the compulsion to make sure there is no confusion about Sen. Van de Putte's Hispanicness.
she's foreigner, a brownie, a , even, as the Repug dog whistling goes.
A few terms too early, the demographic plan isn't in place yet. Still too many white married women in TX with kids as a % of the population. Although the single girls in their 20s are super excited to vote for her! lolzzzz #Wendy4Gov.
Wendy Davis raises more than $12 million
Source: www.dallasnews.com
Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.c...ors-race.html/"UPDATE at 5:50 p.m.: Wendy Davis, the leading Democratic contender for governor, announced Tuesday that her campaign and a joint effort with a Democratic voter turnout group raised more than $12.2 million for the race.
Davis joined the race in October and collected the money between then and the end of December. Her campaign said that it drew more than 84,000 small-dollar donations, accounting for most of the money she took in. The campaign called that “overwhelming support for her candidacy.”
About $3.5 million of the total was donated to the Texas Victory Committee, a joint effort by Davis’ campaign and the group Battleground Texas. The group, started by former campaign aides to President Barack Obama, is working on a long-term plan to register more Democratic voters and help the party compete in future presidential elections."
A Tale of Two Fundraisers: Abbott and Davis
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/01/...ott-and-davis/
I'm pretty sure Wendy had a nose job, it's very pretty one, so why not a wart job?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5G04nJecI
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I get it. Because Texas Republican voters are so cerebral.
The ONLY reason anyone even knows her name is because of abortion.
And she did that to herself.
Demographic voting. White women vote more to the right as they get older, get married, and have kids. Married white women with children in TX generally vote conservative. In just a few more cycles this won't be enough. Not yet though.
In the last election Romney got basically the same % of the white vote as Reagan got in 1980. Reagan won almost 500 to 50. Romney lost. The shift that has occurred and will continue to occur is all demographic, including white single mothers.
that's what the Republicans get for restricting the ability of blacks/hispanics to get abortions
the Repug/Christian-slimed abortion clinics hardly perform any abortions. Over 90% of the activities of the clinics is simply health programs, contraceptive/neo-natal care for poor women. The lack of contraception for poor women is estimated to cause TX abortions to jump from 80K/year to 100K, and MORE babies born with TAXPAYER-SUBSIDIZED VERY EXPENSIVE problems, like $25K/day neo-natal ICU.
Black women get abortions at a rate over 3x their demographic representation. Margret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a big eugenicist who was all for it. They don't like to bring that up, but on the internets I've read black feminists bash her when white feminists praise her.
You forgot to post a link to the website.
It's already begun
http://dentongop.org/chairmans-remar...week-coming-up
"Abortion Barbie". I had to double check to see if she really said that. She did.
yeah, that stood out too.
Strategically a very good ticket for the Dems. If they can get a few more Democrats to show up, it would not be hard.
Texas gubernatorial election, 2010Perry's fourth inauguration was held on January 18, 2011 at the Texas State Capitol grounds. Exit Polls showed Perry winning Anglos (71% to 29%), while White performed well among African Americans (88% to 12%) and Latinos (61% to 38%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_g...election,_2010
Nominee------- Rick Perry----- Bill White
Party -----------Republican--- Democratic
Popular vote--- 2,733,784[1]-- 2,102,606
Percentage------- 55.0%--- 42.3%
I wonder if that election had been held at the same time as the presidential elections, it would have gone the other way. 600,000 votes
We have added over a million people since that election, and the odds are good that more of those people will end up voting Democratic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas
My guess is that this may be the first really compe ive election in a long time, and that we will see money pouring in from national and private coffers.
(shudders) Get ready for the nasty, big media buys.
" odds are good that more of those people will end up voting Democratic. "
I keep hearing that TX hispanics simply don't vote, if they did sufficiently, + blue SA, HOU, AUS, DAL, then TX state wide offices would go blue, but of course the vicious gerrymandering would probably keep the legislature red. maybe nearly purple.
You can probably count on the GOP trying to block every chance that poor people of any color have of voting in this next election. There will be challenges to people voting in every single voting district in the state. All the voter registration in the world won't help if the potential voter shows up without a valid photo i.d. And THAT is why a lot of hispanics aren't going to vote.
even before the uncons utional voter ID, Hispanics didn't vote in large %ages. Many poor people don't have cars, don't have photo ID, so can't vote.
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