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Wendy Davis is playing the odds, I am guessing, with her declaration that she isn’t backing away from her support of President Obama.<\/p>\n

The Democratic nominee for Texas governor is doing the opposite of what a lot of Democrats running for office in Republican-leaning states are doing. She’s embracing the president’s policies.<\/p>\n

However, the odds are pretty strong that Barack Obama isn’t likely to show up at a Davis campaign rally in the Lone Star State prior to Election Day.<\/p>\n

And that gives state Sen. Davis some cover to make her declaration.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2014\/10\/davis-ive-never-backed-away-from-president-obama\/<\/p>\n

Still, I have to admire her for standing tall on her principles, her party’s principles and her support for a president who has been elected twice by significant majorities of American voters.<\/p>\n

It is quite true, of course, that the president isn’t very popular in Texas, where Republicans rule the roost across the board statewide. Davis is a distinct underdog in her campaign to defeat GOP attorney general Greg Abbott in the race for governor.<\/p>\n

Davis, though, made it clear that she welcomes the president’s support.<\/p>\n

According to the San Antonio Express-News: “‘I would be thrilled if he or the Clintons \u2014 anyone \u2014 wanted to come and help,’ Davis told reporters. ‘I\u2019m very pleased that Michelle Obama was willing to record a radio ad for me, and I\u2019m very honored to have their support and the support of so many prominent Democrats across the country.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The high negative ratings for the president, I believe, are a result of Republicans’ ability to control the debate. They’ve outshouted Democrats. The result has been to bring fear to Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n

Given that I am wrong far more than I am right, I won’t take this to the bank just yet. I am pretty sure Davis is right that Obama has\u00a0more pressing issues that will keep him away from Texas.<\/p>\n

But if the president\u00a0shows up, I am hopeful Davis\u00a0will be true to her word and stands with him.<\/p>\n\n

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Wendy Davis is playing the odds, I am guessing, with her declaration that she isn’t backing away from her support of President Obama. The Democratic nominee for Texas governor is doing the opposite of what a lot of Democrats running for office in Republican-leaning states are doing. She’s embracing the president’s policies. However, the odds … Continue reading Davis showing some guts<\/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":[1],"tags":[540,2006,4603,4693,5218],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-greg-abbott","tag-texas-democrats","tag-texas-republicans","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","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=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}