{"id":60466,"date":"2026-11-07T23:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60466"},"modified":"2026-11-07T23:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T23:48:22","slug":"has-texas-turned-blue-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60466","title":{"rendered":"Has Texas turned blue? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">One could almost hear the declarations rise up all over the state on Election Night as the returns piled up and Republican officeholders were losing their seats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Texas has turned blue!&#8221; came the exclamation. Whoa! Let&#8217;s take a breath for a moment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, the state elected Democrats to many key statewide races. U.S. senator, governor, lieutenant governor, myriad statewide offices down ballot, the Texas House of Reps, the state&#8217;s two highest appellate courts all now are occupied by Democrats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, I am going to ask: Has the state&#8217;s population changed its outlook? Are we now a state populated by progressives? I think Texans remain essentially a fairly conservative bunch. We&#8217;re just sick and tired of corruption, of broken promises, of a president who has made an ass of himself and denigrated the high office he has occupied since January 2017.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We might get a clearer look at our voting populace on Election Day in November 2028. We&#8217;ll cast our votes for president then. If Democrats play their cards correctly, they well could nominate someone cut from a moderate-to-liberal mold and not a fiery &#8220;democratic socialist&#8221; intent on rewriting the entire tenor of the nation&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Texans manage to hand its Electoral College votes to the Democratic nominee in two years, well, then we might be able to holler with a straight face that &#8220;Texas has turned blue!&#8221;<\/p>\r\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>One could almost hear the declarations rise up all over the state on Election Night as the returns piled up and Republican officeholders were losing their seats. &#8220;Texas has turned blue!&#8221; came the exclamation. Whoa! Let&#8217;s take a breath for a moment. Yes, the state elected Democrats to many key statewide races. U.S. senator, governor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has Texas turned blue? Really?<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[10541,1941,7576,4603],"class_list":["post-60466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-2028-election","tag-gop","tag-midterm-election","tag-texas-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60466","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=60466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60468,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60466\/revisions\/60468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}