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Three steps: How the Dems plan to make Texas a battleground state by 2016
Daily Caller ^ | 02/27/2013 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 02/27/2013 12:08:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/27/2013 12:08:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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THE THREE STEPS:

1) Voter registration

While there are about 9.5 million Hispanics in Texas, compared with 11.5 million whites, Hispanics only accounted for about 20 percent of the Texans who voted in 2008 and 2010. One of the two reasons? Voter registration.

In 2008, 54 percent of Texan Hispanics were registered, while white and black registration held even at 74 percent. And in 2010, Hispanics were registered at just 53 percent, while whites and blacks were at 67 and 62 percent, respectively. Over all, Texas is home to 1.5 million unregistered Hispanic-Americans, 500,000 unregistered African-Americans and 200,000 unregistered Asian-Americans — all populations the Democrats intend to target.

2) Voter participation

But the fight to win a voter doesn’t end with voter registration — the next step is voter participation. A party can register all the people it wants, but if they don’t show up on Election Day, it doesn’t make a difference.

Hispanics lag behind in this aspect, too: In 2008, 70 percent of registered Hispanic voters turned out, while whites and blacks were tied at 88 percent. In 2010, only 43 percent of Hispanics turned out, compared with 65 percent of registered whites and 62 percent of registered blacks.

The Hispanics are underperforming as far as voter participation is concerned. Democrats know that this leaves a lot of room for improvement — a lot of room for outreach.

3) Voting blue

Now comes the harder part, at least as far as a 2016 timeline is concerned, because shifting public opinion is harder than registering voters or increasing turnouts. But the bottom line is this: If the Democrats accomplish their first two goals, and get Texan Hispanics in line with national Hispanic party affiliation, they could put Texas in play in 2016. And while swinging public opinion is difficult, it certainly isn’t impossible — particularly giving the Democrats’ demonstrated ability to micro-target potential voters with data-driven messaging. (BEDFORD: How Romney’s consultants lost the election as soon as it began)

In 2008, 35 percent of Texan Hispanics voted for the GOP. No exit polls were taken in Texas in 2012, but the national Hispanic GOP vote was only 27 percent — four points lower than the national Hispanic GOP vote in 2008. So, going off of limited data, and giving the GOP the benefit of the doubt, the Democrats would need to swing Texan Hispanic voters their way by between four and eight points.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/27/three-steps-how-the-dems-plan-to-make-texas-a-battleground-state-by-2016/#ixzz2M8FYK1zE


2 posted on 02/27/2013 12:09:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Three steps: How the Dems plan to make Texas a battleground state by 2016

It won't take 3 steps, only one illegal action -

AMNESTY!

3 posted on 02/27/2013 12:12:15 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: SeekAndFind

And the total ineffective GOP won’t be able to stop it. Sad, but the Republican empire is totally screwed.


4 posted on 02/27/2013 12:12:57 PM PST by Logical me
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This article is further confirmation of what I see happening here in my beloved state. If you look at the demographics of Texas school children, you see it's about 48% hispanic and about ~~~35% white.

In a matter of less than 15 years, those young people will be voting...and well over half of them will be voting democrat...probably more like 60% of them.

Texas will be a blue state and that's when I leave. I refuse to live in a state run by democrats. OK here I come.

5 posted on 02/27/2013 12:14:36 PM PST by NELSON111
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To: SeekAndFind

Texans are allowing bilingual practices everywhere. THey’re stupid on this.

What is the plan?

All Mexican-Americans will be bilingual?

Absolutely not. That’s just illogical, not to mention that the social pressure is that all Americans owe it to the Mexicans and Mexican Americans to convert their culture.

Latinos voted Dem for pres 74%.

They’ll turn Texas blue so fast it’s going to curl people’s hair.

There’ll be no where to go after that.

Heard an ad this morning for a roofing co whil listening to Rush: “Mexicans get 50% off”.

FF One year. Gonna be a different place. Perry is not on top of this, unless he wants it, which I wouldn’t put past these dopey dopey GOPers.


6 posted on 02/27/2013 12:14:39 PM PST by stanne
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Texas is in the midst of being destroyed by within, and 0bama is doing all he can to flood the state with illegals. 0bama should ONCE AGAIN be impeached for violating federal law with his recent release of illegals from detention centers. This is a coordinated plan as has been done to other states. Hard to believe that the State of California was at one time in love with Ronald Reagan.


7 posted on 02/27/2013 12:17:44 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Logical me

They are ineffective because they choose to be. They are in support of this invasion and occupation like their brothers in the Democrat party.


8 posted on 02/27/2013 12:17:50 PM PST by DangerZone (If the left had their way, all of America would be as safe as Sandy Hook Elementary.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Yup. AMNESTY (or any such scheme that leads to citizenship for masses of illegal aliens) will ensure that Republicans never win another election. USSA here we come.


9 posted on 02/27/2013 12:18:18 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

In their dreams. The Entitlement state is about to collapse, we all know SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare are unsustainable and even taking our 401k’s won’t fix it. Unless Obama declares himself king and takes all our assets, he is still playing with the destruction of the currency. We may not make it until 2016. It is my hope that in their arrogance, they are dooming themselves to failure. Even Woodard is beginning to see the hubris.


10 posted on 02/27/2013 12:19:09 PM PST by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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Where is Perry? Where is the Texas GOP? Where are conservative Texans?


11 posted on 02/27/2013 12:20:19 PM PST by DangerZone (If the left had their way, all of America would be as safe as Sandy Hook Elementary.)
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To: taildragger

From your lips to God’s ear.


12 posted on 02/27/2013 12:20:51 PM PST by stanne
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To: DangerZone

Complacency is not just a river in Africa. (something like that)


13 posted on 02/27/2013 12:22:43 PM PST by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind

The three steps:

1.) Register illegals and have them vote

2.) Amnesty

3.) MASSIVE voter fraud in Houston


14 posted on 02/27/2013 12:23:32 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Jim Robinson

The GOPe don’t care as long as the plans of the ruling class are furthered. Besides the quisling Republicans can always join the Democrats. They are for all intents and purposes the same anyway.


15 posted on 02/27/2013 12:27:20 PM PST by DangerZone (If the left had their way, all of America would be as safe as Sandy Hook Elementary.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Two things will decide the future of Texas, controlling Texas education to teach Texas patriotism to Hispanics, and converting a sizable number of Hispanics to Protestant Christianity.

Texas is strong in both those areas in a way that California never was, since it never was fundamentally conservative, nor Evangelical.


16 posted on 02/27/2013 12:27:23 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: stanne
Thanks, They can get these folks to vote for them, get them registered etc, but to vote for failure? How can they continue this Bernanke pump and dump charade before another German Bank calls his bluff and down-grades us again and then the Defecate hits the Rotary Oscillator? It just happened to the UK, France is on the brink as it Italy and everyone is acting like they don't care or it doesn't matter?

What friggen good is winning Texas when you broke the whole friggen country!

Ya good luck with that. The king of nothing.

17 posted on 02/27/2013 12:27:37 PM PST by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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To: SeekAndFind
Many of us have warned that California imports are the least of Conservative Texan's worries.

How do they think CA went from a battleground state to solid Blue?

18 posted on 02/27/2013 12:30:24 PM PST by skeeter
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To: ansel12

Have you been to South and West Texas lately? It is like visiting Mexico.


19 posted on 02/27/2013 12:30:57 PM PST by DangerZone (If the left had their way, all of America would be as safe as Sandy Hook Elementary.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re feeding, sheltering, educating and medicating hundreds of thousands of Mexicans with the intention of having them all voting Democrat by 2016. That along with the influx of CA economic refugees, Blacks and the university vote just may put Texas in play....the end of our prosperity.


20 posted on 02/27/2013 12:31:48 PM PST by txrefugee
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