I still get trash from maggots asking for my vote and I Have NEVER Voted in the repug primary in my long life as a voter.

Look at the Presidential election results, look at the state wide races. It is red. Not as lopsided as they intend to make it but socially (god, guns and anti abortion) red, electorally red.

Clearly it’s RED

Oft repeated... but nonsense nevertheless.

First - Texas doesn't register by party. These are entirely made-up numbers based on primary voting and assumptions about demographics. The implied precision in their numbers insults the intelligence.

Second - There are nine statewide elected positions in Texas. We haven't won one of them in over 30 years. That's the definition of a red state.

And very talented.

On paper the numbers lean blue, but turnout and how independents break usually end up pushing things red in big elections. I’d say it’s more purple than anything, depends a lot on who actually shows up to vote

That is, the Democratic constituency of Mexican-Americans doesn't have the frame of reference of *VOTING* (enough) the way that Blacks with LBJ mobilized. Partly, more of them are nearer the day-to-day survival condition that makes "politics" to be a luxury, abstraction.

TX does indeed have lower turnout than most states... but they were only about 7% below the national average.

If you increase turnout in TX by 7% and 100% of those extra voters voted for Harris... Trump still would have won the state. We didn't lose TX because there is a hidden majority of democrats who are just bad citizens.

More importantly, this theory badly misunderstands why some states have low turnouts. The lowest turnout state in the union was Hawaii... but you can look at any on the list. Their turnout is low because the race isn't competitive.

not in reference to recent elections.I'm not qualified to get into the weeds of almost any topic, so am at a disadvantage in being challenged on a different playing field.

"Turnout" refers to registered voters. It has been a byword for decades that Hispanics, particularly in the Southwest, are a "sleeping giant." This is to say that my guess is that a very large number of eligibles are not registered at all, besides what you cite as the futility of the registered ones who don't vote.

And the very different playing field you bring up introduced the idea of "bad citizens," which wasn't anywhere in my mind. My contrasting of the Black/LBJ emphasis on voting with Texas Mexican-Americans under-registering/voting is a matter of history, culture, and economic circumstances.

The "non voting state" is offered in direct rebuttal to whether or not Texas is a "red state".

However you want to spin what it meant by "non voting state"... it doesn't change the fact that Texas remains bright red. Both turnout rates and registration rates are driven by the perception re: how competitive a given election is (which also drives advertising dollars and GOTV efforts - which both impact registration and turnout)

Texas doesn't register voters by party....Saying they do is misinformation.

Texas is blood red

Until then, it's red.

According to those stats, those are registered voters who don't vote. It's under the assumption that everyone who doesn't vote is a Democrat. But we've seen low turnout areas increase turnout, and the results are often not what we except, such as in the case of Latinos.

"Texas is gonna turn blue due to demographics" is not a winning strategy. Hopefully our new party chair can make some inroads. The old chair's motto "Texas is gonna turn blue" just ain't cutting it.

How would the state treat me is an independent? The definition is I vote for whomever I see as the best fit, not loyalty to a party. If I vote one way or another, how would the get independent? Most races are two party races.

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Texas has a galaxy of rural small and medium sized towns and small cities and most are 80/20 (or worse) for the GOP at election time.

They don't bother with purging voters if they think they can win fairly.