November 15, 2018      5:15 PM

Crosby: The Beto Blues

In this guest column, Democratic strategist Jeff Crosby says new voters who helped push Beto to the brink of victory have more to be proud of than they may realize

Democrats in Texas have suffered through a political drought for decades. Every election, we’ve searched the horizon for a gathering storm that would end our misery. Finally, a pretty damn big storm arrived November 7, 2018, and it swept away Republicans thunderstruck by change.

To be clear, we didn’t turn Texas blue, but it would be hard to argue it’s not purple now. Bexar, Dallas, Harris and Travis counties were solidly blue. Tarrant is the only holdout among the big urban counties, but Republicans dramatically underperformed there in comparison to recent elections.

But just consider this: Democrats didn’t lose a single congressional or legislative incumbent in the general election. Not one. I am too lazy to look it up, but I’d imagine the last time that happened was a long, long time ago.

The full column by Jeff Crosby is in the R&D Department.

By Jeff Crosby

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