Monday, August 03, 2020

Let's Count Noses

Ah, dem was de days!
“You’re so right to pay attention to Texas,” Costa replied. “I was with the president in Texas last week. There’s this image politically of Texas being this rural state and I was in Odessa, Texas, home of “Friday Night Lights,” covering President Trump.”

“When you look at Texas politically, I love being in Odessa and Midland, but that’s not necessarily Texas when you look at the political map, it’s major metropolitan areas in Texas,” he added. “It’s in many ways a suburban state. Dallas, Houston, other major metropolitan areas in Texas. Those voters in 2018 and recent other years really moved the state more to the left. You see Senator Cruz is right when he says it’s a battleground state. But Governor [Greg] Abbott (R) he is sticking with President Trump.”

The total population of Midland-Odessa is about 230,000.  Probably majority die-hard GOP.

The total population of the DFW area is about 6,301,000.

The total population of the Houston area is about 7.1 million.

The total population of the Austin area is about 2,053,000.

The total population of the El Paso area is about 844,818.

The total population of the San Antonio area is about 2.550,960.

The total population of the Brownsville-Harlingen area, one of the hardest hit by coronavirus, and part of the most solidly Democratic areas of the state, is about 415,557.

Trump went to one of the smallest "big" cities in Texas.  I'm not sure about San Antonio (home to a lot of retired military and a lot of military bases), but the other major metropolitan areas in Texas are pretty solidly Democratic, and becoming more so.

Greg Abbott's approval rating is at 38%.  Even his own party is railing against him, though not for the reasons I would be.

And frankly, Texas stopped being a rural state long before Robert Costa (born in 1985) was a twinkle in his Daddy's eye.

Old narratives take a long time to die; or catch up with reality.

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