{"id":17867,"date":"2016-11-08T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17867"},"modified":"2016-11-08T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:02:04","slug":"what-about-a-hispanic-voter-surge-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17867","title":{"rendered":"What about a Hispanic voter &#8216;surge&#8217; in Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hispanic-voters-fr-afp-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17868\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hispanic-voters-fr-afp-1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"hispanic-voters-fr-afp-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hispanic-voters-fr-afp-1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hispanic-voters-fr-afp-1.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing a lot in the past three days about a &#8220;surge&#8221; in Hispanic voter turnout in places like Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; what about Texas?<\/p>\n<p>We have an enormous Hispanic population here. The conventional wisdom has been that newly registered Hispanic voters would tend to favor the Democrats, given Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump&#8217;s fiery &#8212; and many say <em>anti-Hispanic<\/em> &#8212; rhetoric on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/decision-day-2016\/\">http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/decision-day-2016\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Monthly blogger Erica Grieder seems to think that Trump&#8217;s expected victory in Texas this year will fall far short of the big win posted in 2012 by GOP nominee Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>What might fuel the decline? I guess it would be a larger-than-normal turnout among Hispanic Texans flocking to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be enough, more than likely, to turn Texas&#8217;s red hue to blue.<\/p>\n<p>But the times &#8212; and the state&#8217;s demographic mix &#8212; are a changin&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing a lot in the past three days about a &#8220;surge&#8221; in Hispanic voter turnout in places like Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. But &#8230; what about Texas? We have an enormous Hispanic population here. The conventional wisdom has been that newly registered Hispanic voters would tend to favor the Democrats, given Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What about a Hispanic voter &#8216;surge&#8217; in Texas?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,18],"tags":[1424,6663,3101,4661],"class_list":["post-17867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hispanic-turnout","tag-mitt-romney","tag-texas-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17869,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17867\/revisions\/17869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}