Isn't it cool that Dems are taking the battle to Texas?

Question

At the community center in Killeen, Tex., about 70 miles north of Austin, Alex Steele is trying to persuade a small audience of Democratic activists that the party can wrest control of the state from the Republicans. An organizer for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Steele is now field director for Battleground Texas, an offspring of the Democrats’ data-driven, get-out-the-vote strategy that helped secure the president a second term. The group was formed last winter by Jeremy Bird, a political operative who headed the Obama campaign’s national field operation and now wants to replicate its success on a smaller scale. He’s targeting a specific group the Democrats see as key to winning in the state: Hispanics. “Our goal is very simple,” Steele tells the audience. “It’s to turn Texas back into a battleground state by treating it like a battleground state."

Answer 1

Texas will be a battleground state. 41% of texans voted for Obama.



40% of Texas is under a Democrat Control.



60% of Texas is under Republican Control.

Answer 2

It will happen. The TX legislature abandoned the children of TX in favor of radical, extremist social conservatives. Yes, there are plenty of those in TX.



But Cruz is so abhorrent, so incompetent, so off-the-wall that his presence should get out the vote. TX, like so many other states, does not turn out the voters. But TX has gone so far to the right, that a get-out-the-vote strategy will have some effect.



Demographics are on the side of the Democrats in TX.



EDIT to ALL - there is no TX "economic miracle." It is oil and gas. Drive through Midland/Odessa - it's hard to get a motel room. Why? Low taxes? Perry's economic plan [gag]? Ted Cruz and his insanity? No!!!! Oil and gas is booming. Period.

Answer 3

this is really a battle that will be fought in 20 years from now...



but better to lay the ground work and set the battle plan now... than in the middle of a political war...

Answer 4

Remember the Alamo!

Answer 5

Texans would rather to continue electing people who care about getting a lower taxed yacht than about helping their fellow Texans.

Answer 6

The only way Democrats will win Texas is to flood the place with Mexicans and give them the vote.



They want to come here for jobs and then turn Texas into a socialist hell hole like the failed country they left.

Answer 7

Good luck with that.



But Texas isn't going to be a battleground state anytime soon.

Answer 8

Talk about a waste of time. The GOP has gerrymandering down to an art and they own the judicial system.

Answer 9

lol good luck with that one--the democratic party is pretty well hated in most of texas. She might want to be an astronaut to, and pretend she's in astronaut training--but it won't make her one.



Dufus

Answer 10

Why would we want Texas to be in the same financial failure as CA, MA, NY, MI, and other liberal run states.

Answer 11

Democrats aren't gaining any ground down there than they have already had for years.

Answer 12

Hook..... Line..... and Sinker..... big ones.

Answer 13

You're being had.

Answer 14

No, not really.