{"id":6843,"date":"2014-10-21T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2014-10-21T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:38:33","slug":"where-does-davis-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Where does Davis go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is not a particularly bold prediction: Wendy Davis is likely to lose her bid to become Texas’s next governor.<\/p>\n

The Democratic nominee is being whipsawed by a combination of circumstances: She’s running in a heavily Republican state; she hasn’t gotten serious traction on the serious issues she’s sought to raise; her opponent, Greg Abbott, has proven to be unflappable in the face of intense criticism.<\/p>\n

My question now is this: Where does the state senator go from here?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/10\/wendy-davis-2014-texas-elections-112027.html?hp=l23<\/p>\n

Some observers had speculated that Davis could emerge with a moral victory even in defeat. She’s made a name for herself. She gained national fame with that notable filibuster in 2013 of a strict anti-abortion bill. She is an articulate spokeswoman for her party.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the Texas Democratic Party is in shambles. Republicans have grabbed every statewide office and have tightened the vise-grip they hold.<\/p>\n

Davis had been seen as a possible leader of a Democratic resurgence. Trouble is that the resurgence has failed to take hold.<\/p>\n

Davis’s future as a political star in Texas is questionable at best, and not because of anything she’s said or done, but because the party cannot seem to pull itself off the deck.<\/p>\n

If she’s going to maintain a future in elected politics, it looks to me as though she ought to follow the Scott Brown model up yonder in New England. Brown, a Republican,\u00a0lost his U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts to Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Then he moved to neighboring New Hampshire and is mounting a serious challenge to Democratic U.S. Sen. Jean Shaheen.<\/p>\n

Sen. Davis? New Mexico might be beckoning.<\/p>\n\n

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This is not a particularly bold prediction: Wendy Davis is likely to lose her bid to become Texas’s next governor. The Democratic nominee is being whipsawed by a combination of circumstances: She’s running in a heavily Republican state; she hasn’t gotten serious traction on the serious issues she’s sought to raise; her opponent, Greg Abbott, … Continue reading Where does Davis go from here?<\/span> →<\/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":[1560,2006,4143,4603,5218],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-greg-abbott","tag-scott-brown","tag-texas-democrats","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","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=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}