2016 Postmortem

Report1212

(661 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2015, 02:57 AM Jul 2015

8,000 expected for Bernie in Phoenix, 5,000 in Dallas, 6,000 in Houston

Gonna be an interesting weekend (numbers from organizing groups in those cities)

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8,000 expected for Bernie in Phoenix, 5,000 in Dallas, 6,000 in Houston (Original Post) Report1212 Jul 2015 OP

That's terrific news! All of those areas are very Pubbie! napi21 Jul 2015 #1

Actually, the bigger cities in Texas are at least light blue TexasBushwhacker Jul 2015 #5

I feel a rally starting....nt artislife Jul 2015 #2

Momentum is hard to slow down once it gets rolling tomm2thumbs Jul 2015 #3

Go Bernie! democrank Jul 2015 #4

napi21

(45,806 posts)

1. That's terrific news! All of those areas are very Pubbie!

Reply to Report1212 (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 03:00 AM

Jul 2015

Not saying there aren't ANY Dems, but they are for sure the minority.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,209 posts)

5. Actually, the bigger cities in Texas are at least light blue

Reply to napi21 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 04:46 PM

Jul 2015

It's the suburban and rural areas of Texas that are red. Even native son GWB only got 61%. McCain got 56%. Romney did a tad better with 57%. Of course if Jeb is the GOP candidate, he might do better. I don't see Trump doing well here. Cruz may do well in the primary, but he's not going to be the GOP nominee.

This is the map for the 2012 election.

Conversely, Texas has a lot of active military and veterans here that might throw their support to Sanders. All those red and deep red counties are pretty low in population. What we have to concentrate on is GOTV.