Texas Democrats will gather this week in Dallas to figure out the best way to push a boulder up a hill. In November, Texans will elect their statewide leaders...
to figure out the best way to push a boulder up a hill.
Republicans are on top because they enjoy a structural advantage in statewide elections, meaning that in any given contest the Republican candidate has the backing of a larger base of voters. Political operatives have put the GOP political advantage between 750,000 and 1 million voters in a general election.
Republicans benefited when conservative Democrats started leaving the party, a migration completed after Ronald Reagan’s revolution. George W. Bush became the second GOP governor in Texas since Reconstruction, beating incumbent Democrat Ann Richards in 1994.to be the first Democrat to win a governor’s race since Richards’ victory in 1990.
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