Maybe we should just elect Trump president

I was looking at the electoral votes map… I had not realized that due to the 2010 census numbers Republicans automatically get another 8 electoral votes: Texas added 4, Utah 1, South Carolina 1, Georgia 1, Arizona 1…

meanwhile on the D side all they get is +1 Nevada (which is almost a toss up) and +1  Washington


and Texas growth just keeps booming so in the 2020 census they will probably gain another 3!

kinda interesting for all the talk about demographic change favoring democrats it is not quite as clear cut as that…

le wrote:
I was looking at the electoral votes map… I had not realized that due to the 2010 census numbers Republicans automatically get another 8 electoral votes

wow, didn't know that either and significant

le wrote:
I was looking at the electoral votes map… I had not realized that due to the 2010 census numbers Republicans automatically get another 8 electoral votes: Texas added 4, Utah 1, South Carolina 1, Georgia 1, Arizona 1…

At least in this election, Utah, Georgia, and Arizona are not GOP locks. I agree with your larger point, however.

if like me you didn't watch trump's intro of pence as his VP, this is a must-read:

Donald Trump?s speech introducing Mike Pence showed why he shouldn?t be president

sweetcell wrote:
if like me you didn't watch trump's intro of pence as his VP, this is a must-read:

It was painful.  As was their 60 Minutes piece last night. 

vansmack wrote:
As was their 60 Minutes piece last night. 

speaking of, here are the (left-wing) cliff notes:

6 Bizarro Moments from Trump's '60 Minutes' Interview

le wrote:
Iand Texas growth just keeps booming so in the 2020 census they will probably gain another 3!

kinda interesting for all the talk about demographic change favoring democrats it is not quite as clear cut as that…

Texas by 2020, 2024 at the latest will be a purple state.  The largest demographic change in TX is Hispanic, and by a large margin.  This might not impact state politics in TX for sometime, but national politics, given the direction of messaging from 2008-2016 will make TX a blue state by the 2028 election unless the R's dramatically change course.

vansmack wrote:

le wrote:
Iand Texas growth just keeps booming so in the 2020 census they will probably gain another 3!

kinda interesting for all the talk about demographic change favoring democrats it is not quite as clear cut as that…

Texas by 2020, 2024 at the latest will be a purple state.  The largest demographic change in TX is Hispanic, and by a large margin.  This might not impact state politics in TX for sometime, but national politics, given the direction of messaging from 2008-2016 will make TX a blue state by the 2028 election unless the R's dramatically change course.

I'm not sure Texas hispanics are like others… remember a ton of Texas hispanics have been there since before the Texans…they would typically be classified as "hispanic" but…..

I dunno.. just a thought…

le wrote:
I'm not sure Texas hispanics are like others…

There is something to that sentiment. While Texas hispanics still vote predominantly Democrat, PolitiFact points out the GOP percentage of the Hispanic vote in Texas is higher than the nationwide GOP average (. . . with the obvious proviso that the GOP/Trumpian view on immigration – a hot button issue with Hispanics – being a relatively new position that we do not have multiple election cycles of polling data on.)

Even for Trump his comments regarding the President's words on the cop massacre in Baton Rouge are really appalling..

Julian, wrote:There is something to that sentiment.

As I said, it will take a while for State politics (Texas R's do well, especially with Hispanic last names), taking special account for the re-districting attempting to thwart their rise.  Don't let Rove's abstract on local politicians and statewide races distract from the discussion on the General Election.

In National Elections, the decline is steep and while the population increases, the decline has a larger impact on the State's Electoral College:

2000: Bush 49%
2004: Bush 49%

(2006 Immigration debate truly started)

2008: McCain 35%
2012: Romney 29%

Population of Voting Age Hispanics:

2012: 4.2m
2016: 4.8m (and 33% are 18-25, while 60% of eligible whites are 45 or older) 

Democrats need to focus on one thing - turnout.  Republicans have a number of things to fix = we saw this in CA in 1994 after Prop 187, effectively turning the state into a Supermajortiy Dem state with bad policy targeting Hispanics.

I chuckled today when I thought Hutch had the screen names of the two of the people who spoke at the RNC

melania = michelle

https://twitter.com/mikehearn/status/755260215021432832 (turn on your sound)

this is getting so surreal.

sweetcell wrote:
melania = michelle

https://twitter.com/mikehearn/status/755260215021432832 (turn on your sound)

this is getting so surreal.

yup.. pretty amazing stuff.. you can't make this shit up…

I was busy watching Raylan Givens disarm Robert Quarles in the Season 3 finale of Justified and missed the whole thing.

What I really want to know was how was Chachi's speech? Did he crib the whole thing from an old Fonzie speech?

Omarosa Named Trump?s Director of African-American Outreach

shit just keeps getting weirder