November 20, 2018      5:06 PM

Coppedge: Thoughts from Behind the Pine Curtain

In this guest column, Dr. John Coppedge argues “we are entering a new but familiar phase in Texas electoral politics...the same kind of phase occurred in the late 1980's and early 1990's when the dominance of the Texas Democrats faded and the Republican era of the last three decades began."

The 2018 General Election will go down as a pivotal election for Texas, especially for the Texas judiciary. Just as 1988 began the quantum shift to the Republican column, now some 30 years later the pendulum is swinging back the other way.

Long predicted because of demographic trends, Democrat dominance in the major Court of Appeals this cycle is the forerunner of what will come next. While Republicans continued to win all the statewide races, the margins are getting thinner.

And buoyed by the 2018 results, Democrats will come out breathing fire in 2020.

The complete column by Dr. John Coppedge is in the R&D Department.

By Dr. John Coppedge

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