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State TejanoDemocrats Convention August 23-24, 2013 Dallas, Texas 

Tejanos,

It is our time--our destiny, and the destiny of Texas is in

our hands! It will be Texas Hispanics that turn Texas

BLUE! Republicans have plotted for years to take over 

government and they have. They have plotted for ways

to prevent minorities from exercising their rights to vote!

We can't let that happen! We must start by electing

Democrats at all levels to city councils and school boards

to State Representatives, Senators and Governor!

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It will take work--there is no doubt! I think it is wonderful

that Battleground Texas has identified Texas as a state

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organization to make a difference--they will have arepresentative in Dallas to share their work with us! BUT-

-no one knows our community like we do! WE must step

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JOIN US IN DALLAS AS WE PLAN TO PLOT OUR OWN

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Will Texas Become A PresidentialBattleground?

 

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Texas was decidedly red on the electoral map in NBC News' "Election Plaza" in NewYork's Rockefeller Center in 2008. Do Democrats really have a chance to turn it blue in

the future?

Mary Altaffer/AP

Texas was decidedly red on the electoral map in NBC News' "Election Plaza" in NewYork's Rockefeller Center in 2008. Do Democrats really have a chance to turn it blue in

the future?

Mary Altaffer/AP

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 All this week, NPR is taking a look at the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade — and what that could mean for the

rest of the country. 

With the two parties in Washington gridlocked on immigration, the budget and other issues, it's easy to forget that when it comes to winning presidential elections, one party

has a distinct advantage.

"The Democrats have a significant advantage on the electoral map that gives them theinside track going into 2016," says independent political analyst Rhodes Cook.

Cook's latest red and blue charts show that what used to be a Republican advantagehas— over the past generation— flipped. There are now 18 states plus the District of Columbia that voted Democratic in every one of the last six presidential elections. Thatgives the Democrats a comfortable base of 242 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to

win the presidency. On the other hand, only 13 states with 102 electoral votes havegone Republican each of the last six elections.

That is the painful reality for Republicans like strategist Alex Lundry.

"We're starting out really behind the curve here," he says. "We have to expand the mapbecause the map right now is really disadvantaged distinctly for Republicans."

'Battleground Texas' 

In recent years, Republicans have been watching the map shrink. Virginia and Florida,once GOP strongholds, have turned purple. Now, Democrats are turning their attention

to the biggest Republican prize of all, Texas.

Yes, bright red Texas—

where no Democrat has won statewide since 1994. WithoutTexas, Republicans' chances of winning the White House would fade to near zero.

Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa says his party's hopes are basedon demographics.

"Forty percent of the people [in] the state of Texas are Hispanic; 15 percent are Asian- American or African-American. That's 55 percent of the population," Hinojosa says."Texas is the only minority-majority state in the entire country that is not a Democratic

state. And it's primarily because of the Hispanic vote."

Or, to be more accurate, the Hispanic nonvote.

 A new group called Battleground Texas is planning to spend tens of millions of dollarstrying to turn Texas blue by 2020. It is made up of Obama campaign veterans, likeformer field director Jeremy Bird, with lots of experience targeting and turning out

minority voters for Democrats. Bird wants to do the same thing for Texas.

"If you look at the 2012 electorate," he says, "only 38 percent of all eligible Hispanicsturned out to vote. Compare that to Florida, where that number is 62 percent. If 62percent of Hispanic voters who are eligible to vote turn out and vote in Texas, it's a

battleground state."

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'All Over But The Crying'? 

The math makes the Democrats' strategy sound simple. President Obama lost Texaslast year by 1.2 million votes. And, says Hinojosa, there are currently 3 million to 4

million eligible Hispanics in Texas who didn't vote in 2012.

"That's where our problem is," Hinojosa says. "The moment that they get engaged andstart voting, it's all over but the crying for the Republican Party in Texas."

Not so fast, says Steve Munisteri, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party.Munisteri says the Democrats' plans for Texas are based on a string of bad

assumptions.

"The first false premise is that Hispanics will vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Weknow that's not true," he says. "Republican elected officials are rational enough, a long

time ago, to recognize how important Hispanics are to our state, and [they] activelysought the vote from Hispanic communities, with great success."

Republicans have been averaging about 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in Texas — 

 just enough to stay competitive. Even Mitt Romney did better in Texas—

getting 36percent of the Hispanic vote there, compared with his dismal 27 percent among

Hispanics nationwide.

Munisteri agrees that Republicans do have a problem nationally. But he says TexasRepublicans have the solution. Back before the 2012 election, Munisteri says, hewarned a group of Republican Party officials that they needed to do a better job of 

engaging minority voters.

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