I just got back from GOTV again for Texas democrats especially Bill White and our ticket in Harris County (home of Houston). In Harris we have a chance for history- we have 103 races on the ballot with a strong dem running for EVERY office. Every judgeship. The majority of these candidates are women. Better yet- African American, Latino women have a good chance to win key court positions in both family, civil and criminal. A real revolution in the 3rd largest populated county in America. A major glass ceiling in this county may be broken Nov. 2nd!
The nation is changing. It is more diverse. And so Texas is changing and the GOP is alienating and enraging those who are already in the plurality and are already becoming a major voting power. I have several GOTV impressions to share:
1.) MSM has ignored with their reports and polls the anger of a great many Latino and African Americans. There is a fury going on about how certain Tea Party groups have attacked Obama and railed against their communities so offensively. I think these groups will turnout out heavily Election Day. Many are waiting to vote on E Day. They did NOT early vote as tradition is you vote on E Day- its really a holiday esp. in the black community. You vote on election day because that is the day the bigots tried to deprive them 40 years ago. Oh and uh here in TX Tea Party thugs have been trying to deprive Aas, Latinos and gays their rights via intimidation.
2.) MSM is ignoring how intensively GOTV work is being done by Democrats in local communities. I have never seen anything like this in a midterm in my years doing this work. I have to believe this work will pay off in major ways.
Here in TX Bill White is very much in the race and the memo released by his camp today shows why and why MSM hasn’t caught on. Here an excerpt from the memo which makes a great deal of sense considering its been decades since there has been such a ground operation for Dems in Texas. Of note is how pollsters arent reading the race right because of the atypical data they are approaching it with. Also is the fact the White camp has targeted soft Republicans and Independents and polls internal and independent show at least 55 pct of indies and soft repubs are going for White. He needs just enough of those to win.
Oh and dem strongholds in Tx are voting more heavily than seen for a Guv race. An example- in 06 48,000 voted TOTAL IN HILDAGO CTNY a key Valley dem stronghold. In the '10 EV alone- 52,000 VOTED!!
And so:
..On the polls: These automated dial polls to land lines to people in the phone book or voter registration lists simply are not as accurate as our analysis of the preferences of those who are actually voting. Our campaign uses a proprietary data base to identify the primary voting history and preferences of 2,129,985 ...who have already voted, 30-40% of all votes. The race is a dead heat....
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Perry’s New Headache Inducing WH Run Means GOTV Like Hell Till Polls Close-
In Perry’s new book out very soon we get some stunning remarks. This man is very dangerous. In it he refers to Social Security as a "Ponzi Scheme." Then he really launches into a fit. Most disturbing is the quote below on the Supreme Court and its ruling i.e. Griswold, Roe, Brown vs. Board..
Perry rails against the New Deal and Great Society programs as well as the Supreme Court. He cites the passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments as the population "mistakenly empower[ing] the federal government during a fit of populist rage."
Here is his passage on Supreme Court "interference" he doesn't like:
"Consider that it is our courts that routinely decide, with little or no chance for further appeal, how and where we may and may not pray to God, when life beings, whether contraception must be allowed to be sold, whether and how we can celebrate religious holidays, what level of pornography and vulgarity must be allowed, whether those other than man and woman must be allowed to marry, what level of discrimination may or even must be carried out (in the name of ending discrimination), whether a state must allow women to attend an all-male military academy, who my be executed and whether we may execute criminals at all..."
The execution comment is interesting coming from a guy who recently said falsely imprisoning someone for 18 years showed a "good example" of "good news" about the state's criminal justice system.
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Of course Perry just yesterday ran another internal poll as many Texans have reported being called by a GOP hired pollster. Bill White has commented on this poll on his FB page saying he was even polled by this pollster and that is how he found out who was funding the poll. Tricky Ricky! Hmm running another internal? Running an ad over the top with a widow in blaming White for killing her husband? The ad also hits at Latino immigrants. Gee is Perry uh a tad worried? If White’s strategy somehow pays off tomorrow night we will know why.
So Kossacks- esp. TX Kossack- lets keep Perry from the WH. Let us keep Palin’s bud from further killing our proud state. Its time to stop Rick from demolishing programs for the poor, using pay for play tactics in every corner of state government, and to keep him from slashing funding to our school system already on life support. This man has a war against women’s right to choose. That is clear. He has signed all sorts of new restrictions on women and their reproductive choices. And his new book indicates he likely will push new stuff on women like contraception access.
So our army of 20,000 readies for our final act to take out Perry. White is in a close race that could be a landmark political event. Texas stand s to gain 4 congressional seats. Greater electoral power. And more influence. No regrets- the fight must be for every last vote here. Sing up here to help E Day GOTV. Time to end our nightmarish 10 years under Perry and save this great state!
http://action.billwhitefortexas.com/...