This presidential election is the first time since 1996 a republican candidate has trailed by fewer than 13 points in Texas, and no Democrat has ever won Texas since Carter in 1976 (Content Display Issues). This election is a crazy one that I will always remember there have been a lot of swings this year mainly because of the new information that we keep finding out from each candidate. This election is wide open for any bodies taking, because every day you see new information about the candidates. You turn on the television and are talking about Clinton’s emails or some lady claiming something about Trump. These are for sure not two of the best candidates for President, but we don’t seem to have another choice. One of these people will be …show more content…
president of the United States it is our job to pick which of these candidates betters our countries’ future. INSIGHT ONE: Texas Texas as much of a Republican state has I have grown up to see is changing with this election.
In my lifetime it has never been a question what side of the poll Texas has been on. Now it seems that Texas is undecided and could be a big part of the way this election goes with our 38 electoral votes the second by any state and California is democratic for the most part. Those 38 votes could be the game changer in this election, because it seems this election could go either way. This last debate will be a deciding factor in my opinion. Our state could be deciding to go democratic, because of the high volume of Hispanics in Texas, and Trump is trying to build a wall between Mexico and the United States. Some people view this idea and Trump’s comments on illegal immigration to be racist. This seems like a big reason for Texas to be switching to democratic …show more content…
views. INSIGHT TWO: Toss up States According to Real Clear Politics there is about 10 toss up states listed. These include Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Maine and Arizona. These states add up to 112 electoral votes that is substantial amount of votes(RealClearPolitics). Florida and Ohio both begin two of the biggest with electoral votes of 29 and 18. I think Trump will take control of these two late in the campaign after more WikiLeaks reports come out about Clinton’s emails. This last debate will also sway voters, because of Trumps great performance in the second debate. He is going to let it all go in this third and final debate. If Trump holds on to Texas and gains Florida plus some of the other smaller toss up states he can come from behind and win this election. INSIGHT THREE: California The state with the most electoral votes of any state California is very strong democratic.
I don’t think this is any were changing, because of the strong beliefs in gay rights and some of the Hispanic culture being so close to the border like Texas. I do find this somewhat hard to believe, because of the amount of celebrities and wealthy people that live there. Clinton’s campaign is going to charge more taxes for the people that make 125,000 dollars or higher and the rate of living in California is very high. Other than this reason though I don’t think Trump has a fighting chance to get California on his side which is a tough lose to swallow considering 55 of the electoral votes come from California
alone. INSIGHT FOUR: North Eastern States The Northern Eastern states such as, New York and Pennsylvania I think could possibly flip over to the republican side after this last debate. The mayor of New York is very republican towards Trump, and he might be able to swing some voters. Bringing these two states over would be 49 electoral votes and would almost make up for the California lost that Trump will take. If not both the states it seems that Pennsylvania could switch over to republican side. According to Real Clear Politics, they have Pennsylvania listed as a leans Clinton state and not a likely Clinton state so this shows a little more hope for the Trump campaign if he has a good performance in this last debate. Conclusion My conclusion after stating some of the states I think Trump has a chance on taking over I could see him winning the election and hope he does. This is not a sure thing and I think it’s going to come down to how his performance is in this last debate, but if it’s as good as his last debate he for sure has a chance to win this election once everyone gets past the “locker room talk”. I wouldn’t consider myself a big Trump supporter, but I do find him to be the better choice as President of the country, especially against Hillary.
The idea of Texas secession is not a new one. The decision in the 1869 Supreme Court Case Texas v. White set a precedent that states could not secede from the union (Rothman), but recent events show that not everyone in Texas believes this to be the case. There was a petition to the White House for the secession of Texas in 2012 (Diaz) but, more recently, support has been growing in the Republican Party. This spring the Republican platform committee voted to put the topic of secession up for discussion during the Texas State Republican Convention in early May (Baddour). While the idea still has only a small amount of support, none of that support comes from the party’s leaders (Associated Press). It’s clear from comments made in the articles that no one thought the vote would pass. Many people are surprised the movement has as much support as it does. Yet according to the article from The Washington Post, the discussion at the GOP convention was, “two votes shy of going to a floor
Daniel Elazar created a classification scheme moralistic political culture of individuals, and traditionalistic to describe the political culture of the state. According to Elazar, Texas can be described as traditionalistic and individuals. Historically, the Texas political parties demonstrated a strong tradition, provincialism, and business dominance. The models, however, may weaken as the Republicans increase its power in the state and urbanization continues. Texas is the second largest state in the country and there are four different geographical regions: the Gulf coastal plain, the interior lowlands, Great Plains, and the basin and range province,
The Texas Legislature is far too archaic to provide consistent leadership for a state government; Congress has become too enmeshed with the executive branch and leaves blurry lines drawn in its separation of powers. The ideal legislature would be a modernized version of what the Texas Constitution created.
There has been a huge question of why Texas has shifted from being mainly Democratic to Republican state. When reading “Cowboy Conservatism” by Sean P. Cunningham the most basic analysis of why there has been the drastic change was because rather than Texas leaving the Democratic Party the Democratic Party left Texas. Both parties went through a great amount of change on what each specific party views were. For example “Both parties experienced periods of factional discord and ideological readjustment” The democratic and republican parties had big changes in their political views. The economic changes that Texas was undergoing was one of the reasons that there was discord in the democratic and republican party. Increase in the population in the suburbs was a huge impact in the change of the political parties. The migration into the major cities such as Houston, Austin, and Fort Bend County had an influence on the votes. Since there was an influx of people from other places with republican views there was a tremendous increases of change in votes of political party’s from democratic to republican. There was also a decrease in conservative democrats in the U.S. furthermore having a decrease of conservatives demarcated and increase of more suburbs and the Republican Party is what changed Texas to republican. Texans had a view of the Democratic
The political future of Texas has been widely debated since the 2012 election of President Bush. Barack Obama, since the state has always played a significant role in impacting national elections. Nationally, there was uneven support among minority voters in favor of the president and Democrats, and as a result there has been an increasing interest in the Hispanic population growth in Texas (Lawrence.) The speculation regards how the changing complexion of Texas voters will influence the political process, with political pundits broadly predicting that since the Latino population typically votes for Democrats, there is a possibility that Texas will eventually become a blue state.... ...
Texas politics is an interesting ecosystem of power, rules and regulations. Of course, in typical Texas fashion, most of the politics we engage in we do our own way. From governors who stay in office for a decade to our extremely diverse demographics, Texas is extremely unique. This uniqueness of course comes with its critics, benefits, and downsides. This is particularly true with the Texas Court system compared to both the federal courts and many other states.
Texas and California are opposites in almost every way. State debt in Texas is much higher than California’s debt is. California went from being the state with the most immigration, to the state with the most people fleeing from it. Now Texas has taken the title of the most immigration, mostly because of the economic boom. California has the nation’s most powerful public employee unions, however in Texas union membership and insignificant. California has oil and gas reserves, but know little about how to utilize their resources. In contrast, Texas is highly successful in developing their oil and gas reserves. California has a ban against fracking, while Texas encourages it. In conclusion, then, while both states have similar advantages of resources, each one has taken a completely different direction with it, and the different effects on their economy shows.
Texas, being the second largest state in the United States, has a very large and ethnically varied population. Since 1850, Texas has had more of a population growth in every decade than that of the entire population of the United States. Texas' population is growing older as the people of the post World War II reach their middle ages. It's estimated that the people over the age of 64 in Texas will more than double by the year 2020 in Texas. Four out of every ten Texans are either African American or Hispanic with the remainder predominately white. There are a small but very rapidly growing number of Asians and fewer than 70,000 Native Americans. The diverse set of ethnic groups in Texas causes a big impact on laws and legislature in Texas.
With respect to every election race, we are reminded that decisions are both profoundly charged typical customs of a voting based system in a democratic society and is a key procedural part of our political system. Both segments of the political elections, typical and procedural, serve key functions at all levels of our political system.
The government of the state of Texas is a difficult and complicated institution that is composed of many different levels. The question comes in to everyone's mind at one time or another whether or not to trust the government. It could be that people believe that the officials will take advantage of their power, or simply people don't like the idea of being controlled by someone who is not a family member or friend. To avoid this centralized power, the government is divided into stages and this is a reasonable ground for trusting the government. Government runs this state and it does deserve to be trusted.
...he rest of the world views California as the “ideal place to live.” However, if California continues to infringe the negative, discriminatory political view its immigrants, the “California Dream” will no longer subsist.
Texas has a rich and long history and much of it has passed through the state over the years to become a part of its folklore. This Texas folklore is part of many cultures within the state and has even filtered outside the state. The first cultural influence on Texas was from the Paleo-American Indians. When these Indians arrived they were in a bit of a culture shock when they met the Spanish in the 16th century. In the following centuries, more people began to arrive in Texas and they brought new ways of talking, believing and doing things. The Spanish and the Mexican set the patterns south of Nueces and along the Rio Grande. Anglos brought their ways of life from the British Isles to the South and Eastern part of Texas. African Americans who came to work on the plantations on the Brazos and Trinity bottoms brought songs, stories and beliefs that came with them from Africa. Germans came directly from the Old World to the Hill Country, Cajuns came from France and eventually through Louisiana and settled in Southeast Texas. The Dutch, Danes, Polish, Czechs, Norwegians who also came here brought with them their ways of life and they all became bound together to become part of Texas. By the year 2000, Texas was made up of 54.5% Anglos, 31% Hispanic, 11.4% African Americans and another 3.1% of other ethnicities.
Maps altered, the American flag’s design changed and California ceases to be the third largest state in the United States of America. This would be caused not by a dramatic earthquake or natural disaster; instead by a proposition from Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Timothy Draper, who believes California is too large as a political body. In December of 2013 Draper submitted an initiative measure to the state proposing California be broken into six separate states that more accurately represent the politics and values of each area. To summarize part of Draper’s government initiative, America’s most populated state, California, has a population almost six times more than population median of the other states. But a large amount of the population is in urban and coastal areas. California has extremely large and vastly different economies, of course a result of that diversity is that the representation in politics has made the state almost ungovernable (Draper). Draper plans on carving California into the following states: Jefferson which will be at the northernmost edge of California and take some of Oregon with it, North California will stretch from Tahoe to Napa, Silicon Valley will encompass San Francisco and cities around it, Central California will be the only state without coastline, West California will be Los Angeles, and Southern California will be the southern tip and San Diego. With all these different states the plan is for each state to be very different and to allow people to choose the state they like the politics of. However, encouraging it might seem to have a government more accurately tailored to one’s way of life; it would not change the fact that this split would be an astronomically expensive decision and cou...
There has been some change through the years when it comes to Texas, but I do not believe Texas is on the brink of any change. I really thought there was a chance Texas could pull together and have a higher percentage that would help us move over to the Democrat side this past presidential election. After the election, we found out there were a lot more white males in Texas that voted more than ever. There were more white males that voted all over the United States this election than ever before. As much as I would like to think Texas would switch parties I do not believe this will happen for a while.
As a people we should keep in mind that, the candidates running for president are very intelligent people who have run successful campaigns. There are two sides to every coin and these two candidates each have their own side of the coin arguing the validity of each. Each side has its own merits and faults, and they have been debated for as long as our nation has stood. Both are valid arguments and we should be conscious of this but one of the candidates does not rise up to the standards of a valid argument. They have based their campaigns on exploiting the public’s fear of the government and appealing to ignorance. They have taken the majestic beauty of America and warped it into a dismal vision. They have divided us on how we view America,