Texas doesn't have the brains to elect him, but maybe the rest of the country does. BETO2020

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Rhakim said:
You're posting links from two right-wing sites to prove that Beto O'Rourke doesn't have a chance in Texas. :stopitslime::francis::mjlol:

Do you realize that something like 90% of states have flipped at least once in recent history? It's ignorance to claim that a state will "never" flip.

You do realize that Ann Richards was the governor of Texas in 1995, right? The DEMOCRATIC governor of Texas. When they had more White people than they do now.

Right now 37 states have at least one Democratic governor or senator, including "right wing safe havens" like North Dakota, Montana, Alabama and Louisiana. Mississippi had a Democratic governor up until 2004. South Carolina had a Democratic senator as recently as 2005. Oklahoma had a Democratic governor up until 2011. Idaho and Utah are the two "safest" states out there for conservatives, but even with them you can't really bet that it will never change.

Stuff changes too much to ever claim that any place is "safe", and Texas has shown those changes.
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We're not talking about other states. We're talking about Texas . I have over 20 years in experience living here and trust me, this state is as red as it gets. Trump is seen as the great white hope and will be having a rally that over 70,000 people will attend. Texas has always had democrat governors and mayors and still remained deeply red. Ann Richards was simply a figurehead. The overwhelming majority of the texas legislature was Republican and blocked most of her bills. You would understand this if you lived out here.
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President Trump is speaking at a rally in Houston Monday night in support of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
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There are 28 million people in Texas. Is it supposed to be surprising that Trump can attract 0.2% of them for a big rally?

Trump only got 50% of the vote in Texas, but that's still damn near 5,000,000 votes. Of course he can throw together a big rally.

This defeatist crap claiming that Republicans own Texas is just stupid and doesn't help anyone. Texas is down to just 45% White and dropping and every other ethnic group votes against Republicans. I don't know which election it will be, maybe this one, maybe next one, but a Democrat will win statewide office in Texas again. Anyone who knows the slightest history knows that no state stays owned, ever.
 
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satam55 said:
Why did you single out Mesquite instead of saying Dallas?

Anyways, Dallas, Houston, & San Antonio vote blue, but I wouldn't consider them Liberal cities if I was comparing them to Austin.
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From what I've been told Mesquite is a very liberal when it comes to their elected officials and city councils. The further left you are the better. Beto is up by 10 points there so that has to mean something. Dallas really isn't a city I would consider liberal or to the left, just more moderate.
 
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Rhakim said:
There are 28 million people in Texas. Is it supposed to be surprising that Trump can attract 0.2% of them for a big rally?

Trump only got 50% of the vote in Texas, but that's still damn near 5,000,000 votes. Of course he can throw together a big rally.

This defeatist crap claiming that Republicans own Texas is just stupid and doesn't help anyone. Texas is down to just 45 %White and dropping and every other ethnic group votes against Republicans. I don't know which election it will be, maybe this one, maybe next one, but a Democrat will win statewide office in Texas again. Anyone who knows the slightest history knows that no state stays owned, ever.
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:snoop: What Democrats and people like you don't realize is that Hispanics are voting for Republicans by a higher percentage each election. Even with his white supremacist rhetoric, Trump got a higher percentage of the Hispanic vote than Mitt Romney. Here in South Texas many Mexican American citizens vited for Trump to keep illegal Mexicans out. That's what Ted Cruz entire political career represents, Hispanics siding with GOP once they gain acceptance. From the looks of things alot of you are gonna be in for a big surprise come November.
 
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ezrathegreat said:
:snoop: What Democrats and people like you don't realize is that Hispanics are voting for Republicans by a higher percentage each election. Even with his white supremacist rhetoric, Trump got a higher percentage of the Hispanic vote than Mitt Rombey. Here in South Texas many Mexican American citizens vited for Trump to keep illegal Mexicans out. That's what Ted Cruz entire political career represents, Hispanics siding with GOP once they gain acceptance. From the looks of things alot of you are gonna be in for a big surprise come November.
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By "higher percentage" you mean he got 29% of the vote. Ya'all talk about less than 1/3 of Latinos going for Trump and treat it like it's a damn majority.

From Wikipedia on why the gap is closing rapidly in Texas:

While he continued the Republican 10-cycle winning streak in Texas,[35] Trump's winning margin was down from Mitt Romney's 16% in 2012 to 9%, making 2016 the closest Democrats had come to winning Texas since 1996. The surge in Democratic votes can partly be attributed to a growing population of Hispanics/Latinos, Trump’s relatively weak performance with college-educated white voters, and the growth of cities and their respective suburbs in the Texas Triangle region, which are heavily populated with both college-educated voters and minorities and thus swung more Democratic compared to 2012.[36] These were Clinton's main sources of votes. She swept the Rio Grande region counties, such as El Paso, Webb, Hidalgo and Cameron as they have sizable Hispanic populations.[37] Clinton also took the highly liberal and fast growing Travis County (Austin), as well as the urban and minority-heavy counties of Bexar (San Antonio), Dallas, and Harris County (Houston), where she turned the historically thin vote margins of previous cycles in the latter into a 12-point lead.[38] Clinton also won suburban Fort Bend County for the first time since Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, which was attributed to the county's large immigrant population and negative perception of Trump by female Republican voters.[39]
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I ain't predicting an O'Rourke win. I'm saying it's stupid and defeatists to not even try and claim that Republicans will keep control eternally.

Ya'all must think the Republicans are the stupidest party ever, when they are doing absolutely everything in their power to keeping Black and Latino people from voting, doing everything possible to keep them out of the country, and yet you claim that Latino people are winning elections for them.
 
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