“If we lose Texas, we lose America.”
More like “when” than “if” at the rate it’s going, but you are certainly correct; and it’s not as if places like Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are permanently and safely Republican either. Far from it.
Good luck to any Republican presidential candidate — particularly one who is even the least bit conservative — discovering a “path to 270” which doesn’t include Texas.
It’s tempting to say that things are *always* changing in politics, so that even if (when) Texas is lost we can offset that loss — almost — by simply taking back some Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania and Michigan and maybe even reclaiming marginal fraud-ridden states like Arizona and Georgia!
Sure.
Along the same lines, it’s also tempting to think that even bad things don’t last forever in politics. Whoever would have thought back in the 1980s that the Solid Democrat South would ever become the Solid (sort of) Republican South in the U.S. House and at the state legislative level? Then isn’t is just as likely that, say, California will come back to the GOP when we least expect it to do so? (Spoiler alert: the answer is No.)
“More like “when” than “if” at the rate it’s going”
Not that much - just in this poll Hispanics are nearly 50/50. At that level they nearly cancel themselves out.
The bigger problem is angry white single women (I know I’m being redundant using ‘angry’ and ‘single women’) who keep voting more and more Democrat.