For Democrats, Texas Push Gets an Early Shove
By AMY CHOZICK, NYT
MAY 16, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — The instructions seemed simple enough: Knock on your neighbors’ doors and tell them to vote for Wendy Davis in Texas’ election for governor.
Bryan Bejarano, 21, a political science student and volunteer activist, soon realized the task was not as easy as it sounded. He wandered around a nearby neighborhood with a list of likely Democratic voters, culled using the same algorithms as President Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
The first house on his list was overgrown with foliage and had no doorbell. The second home had stacks of empty boxes on the front porch. No one answered at his third stop. “If Wendy Davis wins, we keep going,” Mr. Bejarano said. “If she loses, we keep going.”
Texas, with its 38 electoral votes and its changing demographics, offers a tantalizing opportunity for Democrats to flip the state that is the bulwark of any Republican presidential campaign.
(More here.)
MAY 16, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — The instructions seemed simple enough: Knock on your neighbors’ doors and tell them to vote for Wendy Davis in Texas’ election for governor.
Bryan Bejarano, 21, a political science student and volunteer activist, soon realized the task was not as easy as it sounded. He wandered around a nearby neighborhood with a list of likely Democratic voters, culled using the same algorithms as President Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
The first house on his list was overgrown with foliage and had no doorbell. The second home had stacks of empty boxes on the front porch. No one answered at his third stop. “If Wendy Davis wins, we keep going,” Mr. Bejarano said. “If she loses, we keep going.”
Texas, with its 38 electoral votes and its changing demographics, offers a tantalizing opportunity for Democrats to flip the state that is the bulwark of any Republican presidential campaign.
(More here.)
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