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Gothmog

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 04:21 PM Oct 2014

Democrats see signs of change for Fort Bend

We are making progress in my county. http://tablet.olivesoftware.com/Olive/Tablet/HoustonChronicle/SharedArticle.aspx?href=HHC%2F2014%2F10%2F26&id=Ar03501

Political analysts still place Fort Bend solidly in the GOP column, but say the margin of victory in county elections could gauge the local GOP’s health and the odds of Democrats keeping their promise to turn Texas blue.

To Donald Bankston, the Fort Bend Democratic chairman, it’s inevitable that his party will regain dominance.

“There’s been a seismic shift in the demographics,” he said. “If this was a highly voting county, this county would be reliably Democratic.”

U.S. Census figures show the share of the population that is non-Hispanic white went from 54 percent in 1990 to 36 percent in 2013. As Latino, African-American and Asian voters tend to lean liberal, Bankston hopes they will turn out at the polls as reliably as whites do, giving his party a fighting chance.

BTW, Fort Bend County chair is known on this board by some as Bubba or Mr. Juanita Jean. The key thing is that the Fort Bend County Democrats are focusing on voters who voted in 2012 but who did not vote in 2010

Bankston said his team is targeting the estimated 40,000 voters who supported Obama in 2012, but who did not vote in the 2010 midterm elections.

“It’s not rocket science,” he said. “We are limited in time, people and money, so we have to effectively focus on who is most likely to be an effective voter.”

It is going to be an interesting election
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