Texas in play

[struggle4progress]

By Mark Z. Barabak and Kevin Baxter
Los Angeles Times (TNS) 8 hrs ago

... it is not far-fetched to think Joe Biden could carry the Lone Star State ...

... Democrats have not won a statewide race in more than 20 years, and their last presidential candidate to carry Texas was Jimmy Carter ...

"It's not become probable," Jim Henson, who co-directs the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls, said of Biden's chances. "But it's gone into the realm of the plausible" ...

"We know the risk of losing democracy," said Paloma Diaz, 56, a director of Latino American studies at the University of Texas in Austin. She grew up in Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and sees the same impulses in Trump. "We are going straight to a totalitarian government," she said ...

https://tylerpaper.com/ap/politics/democrats-believe-trump-has-put-texas-in-play-a-biden-win-could-be-a-game/article_87b5b205-b072-5560-a8ce-e08b74ee2332.html

[Sherman A1]

1. That would be so very cool

Georgia, Texas and Florida would be so very cool.

[rownesheck]

2. Last poll I saw

showed Biden 3 points down. That doesn't sound in play to me this close to the end. It is closer than usual though. I give Texas 10 years before it turns blue.

[msongs]

3. one wonders why people most damaged by trump policy are the least likely to vote nt