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.
