No, but it's arrogance in believing she has no chance. It's arrogance in thinking that Texas is so solidly crimson-red that they'd never elect someone like Wendy Davis as Governor.
Austin has always been a liberal enclave but now Houston and San Antonio have turned blue as well. There's profound demographic changes happening all across the country and Texas is no exception. You've got a growing Hispanic population, growing urbanization and added to this are a lot of recent out-of-staters who've come to Texas for job opportunities and brought their liberal voting habits with them.
Democrats now believe that Texas is turning purple, they might be right, and they're going to dump millions of $$$ into this race forcing Republicans to put up a fight.
Perry beat his opponent by 12% in 2010, a landslide year for the GOP. The numbers are definitely shifting in the Democrats' favor.
........62% of Texans in a recent poll support SB5. “ABORTION”...........all by itself, will not get you elected to the Governors office in Texas. As the poll shows though, it can sure get you un-elected.
As she has been all her life, Wendy is desperate. Post 20 week abortion, more and more, is being seen for what it is. Namely, premeditated murder.
Bottom line, ABORTION, is the only horse the Dems and Wendy have in their corral to throw their saddle on.
“More importantly, this poll shows that banning abortion after 20 weeks of gestation — one of the provisions of SB5 — has the support of over 62 percent of Texas residents. Of course, these sorts of surveys often receive little attention from many media outlets.
LifeNews.com Note: Dr. Michael New is a political science professor at the University of Michigan–Dearborn and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a fellow at Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.”
She has the women, Hispanics, Yellow Dogs, and illiterates.
Dallas is “blue”, but Dallas County is still barely competitive. There is a liberal Republican running for Congress in Lubbock trying to oust the conservative stalwart Randy Neugebauer.