Could you see Texas becoming a D stronghold state before others?

[5280]

If the Democrats were smart and wanted to win almost every election in the future, wouldn't they focus on turning Texas blue compared to other swing states? They could easily lock up the election. Forget CO, IA, GA, NC, NH, NV, FL, OH, VA, WI

2036 election
 
275D/263R

[5280]

No, but if they just stopped campaigning in all swing states and focused only on TX. Is it possible?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If the Democrats were smart and wanted to win almost every election in the future, wouldn't they focus on turning Texas blue compared to other swing states?

Elections are not strategy games. No matter how hard the Democrats might try Texas will remain securely in the Republican column unless the fundamentals of current the current partisan landscape change pretty drastically. The Republican floor in the state is awesomely high.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

No

[All Along The Watchtower]

OP, have you ever been to Texas?

[5280]

OP, have you ever been to Texas?

Drove through Dallas and stayed the night at a hotel, that's about it.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

If the Democrats were smart and wanted to win almost every election in the future, wouldn't they focus on turning Texas blue compared to other swing states? They could easily lock up the election. Forget CO, IA, GA, NC, NH, NV, FL, OH, VA, WI

2036 election
 
275D/263R

If Democrats were to win TX in 2036, then there is no way they would be losing NV, FL and CO. They would be winning TX by getting overwhelming margins among Hispanics and pumping up turnout, which would spill over in other similar states.

[DS0816]

If the Democrats were smart and wanted to win almost every election in the future, wouldn't they focus on turning Texas blue compared to other swing states? They could easily lock up the election. Forget CO, IA, GA, NC, NH, NV, FL, OH, VA, WI

2036 election
 
275D/263R

If Democrats were to win TX in 2036, then there is no way they would be losing NV, FL and CO. They would be winning TX by getting overwhelming margins among Hispanics and pumping up turnout, which would spill over in other similar states.

^ Accurate.

Right now, we're in a period in which the Republicans and the Democrats, in losing elections, will carry around 20 states. And approximately 10 states will make the difference in deciding a given election. That quoted map is imagining a future in which the Republicans have as part of their base states ones which are now a part of the base states of the Democratic Party. That isn't going to happen…so long as the Republicans' base are in the Old Confederate states (the ones—like Alabama and Mississippi—which have had historically awful records with carrying for presidential winners). And states like New Hampshire and Wisconsin (and, as some other forum posters have imagined, Michigan and Pennsylvania) are not going to become base states for this Republican Party…just as they were not base states for the Democratic Party when the Democratic Party's base states were in the Old Confederate states.