Dallas With the results of the recent primary elections in Texas, perhaps it is time to look at the progress of Battleground Texas and the notion of “turning Texas blue,” as the Democrats call it. The hope in a nutshell is essentially that “demographics are destiny.” Robert Draper in the Texas Monthly summed it …
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Political Ground Game in Ascendancy as Simple Math Triumphs with Big Data
New Orleans What goes around, comes around, it seems, if you keep around long enough. Reading about cutting edge political strategies, like the “Bannock Street project,” reminds me of frequent late discussions at the regular Wednesday night staff meetings of ACORN in Little Rock 40 years ago as we would debate whether to spend all of …
De Blasio Wins with the “Left Walk” in New York City Mayor’s Race
Baton Rouge The “Gotham” columnist for the New York Times, Michael Powell gave proper credit not just to Bill de Blasio for his seemingly out-of-nowhere broad based support and victory in the Democratic primary race for Mayor of New York City with this “tale of two cities” appeal, but also appropriately to the Working Families …