I'll Never Vote for Hillary Clinton

in 2012, 63 percent of votes came from the 14 most populous counties in Texas; the other 240 counties account for just 37 percent.

So, the most densely populated areas in Texas are increasingly diverse, Democratic and relevant, but that’s only part of the story. They’re only kind of blue, and their relevance remains hindered by a general lack of electoral engagement that is unmatched in their surroundings. Assuming rural Texas remains staunchly red, Democratic candidates won’t win Texas until they win over suburban voters. Texas is red.

The Bernie Sanders campaign misappropriates the credibility of two New Hampshire newspapers in a new TV ad that boasts of his endorsements for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The ad, titled “Endorsed,” leaves the misleading impression that the Nashua Telegraph and the Valley News endorsed him. They did not.

Thanks for that. Ultimately I think this may be one of the cases of us interpreting the same data with different degrees of positivity.

I definitely see opportunity for the Democrats to win Texas and a trend of Republicans losing ground (that they will have to evolve to reverse) but overall am not bullish on a blue Texas.

I think it's more likely that the Republican party modernizes to staunch the bleeding than I do that the Democrats take Texas in my lifetime, but stranger things can happen and I definitely agree with some of the analysis of Republican strongholds being weakened.

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I concur. Which is why I want to understand Edgar, since he's the one that opened with the salvo "I'll never vote for Hillary."

All I can say is, if you want a Republican president why not vote for Cruz or Bush? If you want something more, Sanders stands alone.

In the primary, our votes definitely count, especially since there are only two Democrats seeking the nomination. There will be a winner, and the delegates will be sent to the Democratic National Convention.

Texas is expected to have 252 delegates at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Of this total, 222 will be "pledged delegates." Pledged delegates will be allocated to a candidate in proportion to the votes he or she receives in the state's primary. A candidate will be eligible to receive a share of the state's pledged delegates if he or she wins at least 15 percent of the votes cast in the primary. There are three types of pledged Democratic delegates: congressional district delegates, at-large delegates, and party leaders and elected officials (PLEOs). Congressional district delegates are allocated proportionally based on the primary results in a given district. At-large and PLEO delegates are allocated proportionally based on statewide primary results.[3]

Example: Assume that there are three presidential candidates. In District 1, Candidate A won 60 percent of the vote, Candidate B won 22 percent and Candidate C won 18 percent. Approximately 60 percent of the pledged delegates allocated to District 1 would be bound to support Candidate A at the national convention. Approximately 22 percent of the delegates would be pledged to support Candidate B, and 18 percent would be pledged to support Candidate C.

Thirty party leaders and elected officials will serve as unpledged delegates. These delegates are not required to adhere to the results of the state primary.[3]

Fear mongering is getting to overused to the point it has lost it's meaning. Snood has made a legitimate point that talk has a way of generating trends or thinking of other people. Not all states are states where votes don't matter. I am a democrat, I will support any democrat over a republican because I believe in the democrat platform and I do not believe in the republican platform, for that reason alone, no matter who gets it in the democrat ticket, I will vote for him or her. I will vote for Hillary in the primary because I believe she will be better president than Bernie who I believe is too one subject to be an effective president. I also believe any president right now will continue to be involved in conflicts overseas regardless of what they say right now because the world in general is in a terrible time. I wish the Arab spring of which Obama supported would have been more successful than it turned out to be. But it wasn't and we are dealing with some of that failure now plus the failure of the Iraq war plus problems with Russia and so forth. These problems will not go away with putting our heads in the sands and just ignoring them and I believe Hillary is better placed to deal with it. The rest to me is rhetoric that sound good. Moreover, on domestic issues, Hillary and Sanders are not far apart despite her ties to "big money." If like people say Hillary changes with the poles, that in itself is not a bad thing if the blacklivesmatters becomes more powerful, perhaps it would influence the unjust justice system of whoever ends up being elected. I think either one of them would be about the same despite Hillary's ties to private prisons.

I think the animosity comes from fervent Bernie supporters if the rest of the electric is anything like these threads.