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Texas is the sleeping giant in the United States. It turns out that Battleground Texas is starting to scare the hell out of the Right Wing Tea Party Texas Republican Party.
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FreedomWorks: Top-level Democrats and OFA strategist are on the ground all across Texas registering hundreds of new voters every week. Currently Battleground Texas reports that they are on pace to register approximately 600,000 new Democrats by the 2014 midterms. Considering Rick Perry won the gubernatorial race in 2010 by less than 700,000 votes, Texas could be in real trouble. Mathematically speaking, the path to the White House could be lost for an entire generation if Democrats are able to turn Texas.
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What I witnessed in Austin this weekend shook me to my core. This isn’t simply an ideological grassroots battle; we are up against a full-fledged frontal assault from the entire liberal political machine. Battleground Texas is well funded, motivated, highly organized and damn good at what they do. We are fighting an uphill battle to keep Texas reliably red, which has trickle down effects across the country.
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I don't see that happening to soon, you have a lot of people who are ditching states like NY to move to a more tax friendly states and those people lean more to the right. Like any state you will always have small pockets here and there which vote differently. |
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they are on pace to register approximately 600,000 new Democrats by the 2014 midterms.
Ok, but how many are on track to register as Republicans? Austin has ALWAYS been heavily blue. |
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Ok, but how many are on track to register as Republicans?
Austin has ALWAYS been heavily blue.
That's like saying that because Saratoga is generally red that all of NYS is going to turn red from it's current color of deep blue. P.S. Houston is also very blue, and it shows when a complete nutjob like Sheila Jackson-Lee keeps getting elected. |
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I don't see that happening to soon, you have a lot of people who are ditching states like NY to move to a more tax friendly states and those people lean more to the right. Like any state you will always have small pockets here and there which vote differently.
I know a guy who moved to Texas with his wife and kids. He worked at a Toyota factory near San Antone. After 2 years he took a buyout from Toyota and said he'd never return to Texas. He's gone into great detail of life in that part of Texas. He moved back to the northeast and gladly pays the higher taxes here. He still writes to friends in Texas who say if anything, conditions there have gotten even worse in the years since he left. |
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I know a guy who moved to Texas with his wife and kids. He worked at a Toyota factory near San Antone. After 2 years he took a buyout from Toyota and said he'd never return to Texas. He's gone into great detail of life in that part of Texas. He moved back to the northeast and gladly pays the higher taxes here. He still writes to friends in Texas who say if anything, conditions there have gotten even worse in the years since he left.
Texas is still one of the highest growing states in the country, 2nd fastest I believe, NY doesn't even come close to population growth. So why you have a friend who returned that is not the norm. |
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Just in case Bumbler missed it... The BLUE PARTY won the last election and the one before that for US President. Bumbler may not see any difference between parties, but those people who benefitted from the passage of ObamaCare sure do. And those people who vehemently opposed ObamaCare see a difference between the Blue and the Red. |
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Texas is still one of the highest growing states in the country, 2nd fastest I believe, NY doesn't even come close to population growth. So why you have a friend who returned that is not the norm.
Yes. Several of his friends still work for Toyota in Texas. They hate it there but stay for the money. Taxes are lower and if that is all that's important to you, then by all means Henry... MOVE TO TEXAS... the quicker you move, the more you' save! |
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Yes. Several of his friends still work for Toyota in Texas. They hate it there but stay for the money. Taxes are lower and if that is all that's important to you, then by all means Henry... MOVE TO TEXAS... the quicker you move, the more you' save!
I love the northeast but it doesn't mean I need to like the government and taxes. Hopefully that part can change for the better in the future especially with such low growth they may get the hint. |
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I love the northeast but it doesn't mean I need to like the government and taxes. Hopefully that part can change for the better in the future especially with such low growth they may get the hint.
I appreciate the northeast also... I can't picture living everyday with the bigots of Texas. Just a note: Fulton County NY has 44 lakes. Some man made, most not. The entire state of Texas, which is much larger than NY has not one natural lake. NONE! Sounds great doesn't it??? |
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Bumbler may not see any difference between parties, but those people who benefitted from the passage of ObamaCare sure do.
Oh, you mean the corporate insurance companies? Yes, they did benefit. Nothin like using the government force to get customers. The democrats should be able to raise well over a billion dollars from the corporate insurance and drug industry alone for the passage of Obamacare. That's a nice fascist partnership between government and big business. The best part is, it's the Democrats that are cheering for corporate welfare on such a grand scale. |
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Oh, you mean the corporate insurance companies? Yes, they did benefit. Nothin like using the government force to get customers. The democrats should be able to raise well over a billion dollars from the corporate insurance and drug industry alone for the passage of Obamacare.
You are right Cissy... the Republicans eliminated the "Single Payer" option from ObamaCare. A huge mistake. That would have given the Federal Govt as one of your options instead of only buying from individual private companies. Hopefully the Single Payer option will be added to ObamaCare in the future. |
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Texas Might Turn Blue Sooner Than You ThinkJust WHO is moving into Texas???
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More than a million Americans have moved to Texas in the past decade, many from traditionally Democratic states. More than three hundred and fifty thousand Californians have arrived in the past five years; since 2005, over a hundred thousand Louisianans permanently relocated to Texas, mostly in Houston, after Hurricane Katrina. The population is also skewing younger, which means more Democratic.
A chart showing Texas’s population by ethnic group over the next few decades... A red line, representing the white population, plunged from almost fifty-five per cent, in 2000, to almost twenty-five per cent, in 2040; a blue line, the Hispanic population, climbed from thirty-two per cent to almost sixty per cent during the same period. He pointed to the spot where the two lines crossed, as if it augured a potential apocalypse. “This shows when Hispanics will become the largest group in the state,” he said. “That’s somewhere in 2014.
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