Texas Democrats have been plotting the blue wave for years, and they came close this past election in the race for Texas Senator. Handsome, likable mouthpiece of lefty politics, Beto O'Rourke, almost knocked Ted Cruz out of a senate seat. But Cruz won by less than 3% of the votes. And while that's a win, the margin is probably enough to pump more fuel and enthusiasm into the Texas Democrat wave making machine.
The lesson from Arizona is instructive. Monica Showalter asks and answers the question: How could Arizona elect someone like Kyrsten Sinema? Among other reasons, she says this:
And there's also the broad trend: Colorado, the most populous mountain state, has done a lot of going blue as outsiders moved in and urbanization happened. It's quite likely that demographically, Arizona may be following the same pattern.
Texas is experiencing that phenomenon, too. The newcomers may be voting for the same types of politicians running the states they left behind without realizing that those politicians were probably the cause of the conditions that they were so eager to leave.
Whatever the cause, one of these days there's going to be a serious move in the Texas legislature to establish a state income tax. That will be a tell. Texas voters will have pushed the state to the blue line.
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1:52 PM 11/13/2018
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