re: #209 HappyWarrior

I’m telling you guys. This is the kind of stuff that could cause an anti GOP wave in 2018. Maybe I’m a bit of a Pollyanna but I’m seeing a lot of people pissed at how Republican Congresspeople and Senators are acting across the country.

Just saw this, about Texas Organizing Project (TOP), that is why Houston is fully under Democratic control: dailykos.com. This needs to be expanded to cities like Dallas, where only 59% of eligible voters voted.

From the article referenced in the DK article:

Ever since the era of Ann Richards, Democrats had been focusing their efforts (without success) on winning back white swing voters outside the big cities. But Zermeno realized that there was no reason “to beat our heads against the wall for that group of people anymore, not when we’ve got a million-voter gap and as many as four million non-voting people of color in the big cities, who are likely Democrats.” By relentlessly appealing to that shadow electorate, and gradually turning them into habitual voters, TOP could whittle down and eliminate the Republican advantage in elections for statewide offices such as governor and lieutenant governor, not to mention the state’s thirty-eight votes in the presidential Electoral College. In other words, since the existing Texas electorate was never going to generate a satisfactory result, TOP was going to have to grow a new one.…