Analysis: The centerpiece of the 2018 Texas general election? Dallas County

The Eagle ^ | April 30, 2018 | Ross Ramsey

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On the day after this year’s November general election, you’ll know almost everything about how Texas went by knowing how the election went in Dallas County.

It’s a blue county in the most populated red state in the U.S. Hillary Clinton won 60.75 percent of the vote to Donald Trump’s 34.6 percent in 2016. Democrats Wendy Davis and Leticia Van de Putte beat Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick in the races for governor and lieutenant governor in 2014, even as the two Republicans were coasting to easy statewide victories.

Democrats want to keep the Dallas County trend rolling. Republicans, of course, would like to stop it cold.

This year, the county’s races for the Texas House are the talk of the political class. It’s a blue county. It’s a Republican president’s midterm election. And the seats in question overlap in a stack of contested races from the county courthouse to the statehouse to statewide and federal races.

Dallas is where Democrats hope to pick up the most seats and, conversely, where Republicans are mounting their defenses.

Republicans have majorities in the state’s U.S. House delegation (25-11), the Texas Senate (20-11) and in the Texas House (95-55). In each of those, Democrats hope to pick off Republican incumbents or flip open seats now held by Republicans to their own candidates; Republicans hope to hang on to what they’ve got. As they mapped out their 2018 plans, strategists from both parties found the biggest concentration of competitive seats is in Dallas County, all but one of them with a Republican incumbent....

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t Wendy Davis run as a ‘Republican’ in the Dallas area at the beginning of her political career?

[GuavaCheesePuff]

I’m not from Texas, I’m from New Jersey.

Can any Texan here explain to me how Hillary won the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio suburbs?

[RitaOK]

My God, it’s good to see you BACK! Your signature blows up the column you post, with joy to see you swinging the bat again!

Congratulations and best wishes!

[RitaOK]

Does Sheila Jackson Lee tell you why the Houston neighborhood would vote for The Chief Witch, HRC.

[2ndDivisionVet]

All inner cities in the United States lean left and are under Democratic control.

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Can any Texan here explain to me how Hillary won the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio suburbs?

Because it's not the 1980s any more?

I'm not from Texas either, but I suspect upscale suburban types living outside very big cities are now the same all across the country.

Plus, massive Hispanic population in Bexar County (San Antonio).

[TheWriterTX]

These major centers have high concentrations of Yankees. Texas, on a county by county basis, is 90% red.

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My God, it’s good to see you BACK!
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Ditto on that 2DV

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Thanks guys.

[Night Hides Not]

I read the rest of the article, and snorted when Matt Rinaldi was deemed to be in a "competitive race." The only reason why it was competitive was because Bennett Ratliff tried to get the seat back. No Democrat will be able to get within 15 points of Matt.

Matt's district is crimson, home to several large and growing faith communities. Asian, read Indian, population has taken over the majority in North Irving/Valley Ranch and Coppell. They are exceedingly conservative...Democrats have no chance in Irving, Coppell, Carrollton, etc.