re: #155 Feline Fearless Leader

I guess the secondary question is what swing or marginal states are they a sizable fraction of? I don’t think they can turn Texas purple yet, and in a state like California or New York the GOP will discount them since they don’t have realistic plans of winning those states at this time.

They might could, if they’d vote. Hispanic turnout in Texas is execrable, even when a Hispanic is running near the top of the ticket (last cycle, Leticia Van De Putte for Lt. Gov). We ended up with Dan Patrick, who is an absolute nut job.

From the Texas Tribune on the 2012 cycle:

“In Texas, which is home to nearly one in five of all U.S. Hispanics, just 39 percent of Hispanics who were eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election cast a ballot. That’s compared with 48 percent of eligible U.S. Hispanics, 61 percent of eligible white Texans and 64 percent of eligible white Americans.”

texastribune.org

As my buddy Ramiro says, “My peeps don’t vote. Too wrapped up in their families and they feel like it doesn’t make any difference.”

And he’s a Director who manages a Division in a State Agency with about 1,000 employees. Smart as a whip. Closeted Lib. Frustrated by it all.