How Democrats Could Turn Texas Into the Blue Star State

[ccharles000]

"Did I mention that it's fun to be a Democrat in Texas?" asks Matt Glazer, editor in chief of the Burnt Orange Report, the state's leading progressive blog. He has, in fact, mentioned it a couple of times over beers at Scholz Garten, a legendary liberal hangout in Austin, and always with the same glimmer of happy bemusement behind his black-frame blogger specs. I'd been seeing that look in Democrats' eyes all over Texas in early June--at their raucous, record-breaking state convention, at local Democratic shindigs, in giddily overburdened Obama HQs. "It's like everyone who toiled on that Democratic death march for years, when it was so difficult, is now seeing daylight," says Josh Berthume of the Dallas suburb Denton, editor in chief of TheTexasBlue.com and another key player in a vigorous blogosphere that has helped ignite the startling Democratic flare-up here, in the bright red heart of Tom DeLay and Karl Rove's "permanent" Republican majority.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/moser

[grantcart]

1. great article Charles

and there could be no greater irony in the world that if through a series of flukes that Texas actually got close and then it was found that on election night that it went Democratic with the difference being the large number of Katrina refugees who were displaced into Texas. It would send me back to Church on a regular basis and prove that God does indeed have a sense of humor all at one time.

[ccharles000]

2. That would be wonderful.

[blogslut]

3. You're insane!

Crazy, I tells ya! Texas is NOT turning BLUE, so stop saying that!

Shhh. Be vewy, vewy qwiet. We're hunting wabbits. Hehehehehehehehe.

[ccharles000]

4. ...

Never I won't stop until this country is blue in the face.

[blogslut]

5. Texas will NEVER turn blue

Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never Never never never never never never never never!

And if you keep saying that Texas will turn BLUE, the MSM will pick it up and JINX it!

:hi:

[ccharles000]

6. It will

[uponit7771]

7. Texas added 1 - 2 million new citizens in the last 3 years mostly from California and New York. My..

...neighborhood is 80% Californians who sold their houses and paid for houses cash in South DFW (below I-20).

There's no reason why Texas can't be in play this year

[Alter Ego]

8. Oh, please, Texas.

If we can take the Lone Star State out of the Republican column we win the election by default.