Texas Poll--HRC up by 10--huge lead among Latinos and African-Americans
The former secretary of state is leading, with 54 percent, a week before the Texas primary, while Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, has the support of 44 percent of the respondents.
“This race is narrowing, but not narrowing in a way for the lines to actually cross — especially in Texas,” said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at UT-Austin and the poll’s co-director. Clinton will win, he said, but the question mark, is the state’s Hispanic voters and their relatively low propensity to vote. “This will be a double-digit race, but I don’t think it’s going to be a 20-point race.”
Clinton has a formidable base of black and Hispanic voters, while Sanders is doing better with Anglos. She leads 70 percent to 27 percent among black voters and 60 percent to 37 percent among Hispanic voters. Sanders, meanwhile, has the support of 55 percent of white voters to Clinton’s 44 percent. Clinton’s advantage, the pollsters said, could swell if her campaign can boost the numbers of Hispanics voting in the state.
http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/23/uttt-poll-clinton-still-leads-texas-margin-has-nar/
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Julián Castro could be VP next year — or out of a job. He’s ready either way.
By Ben Terris February 23 at 1:12 PM
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Julián Castro cut into his overcooked brisket, dumped four artificial sweeteners into his iced tea and shifted in his seat. It’s not that he didn’t want to answer the question, it’s just that he couldn’t.
Sure, he’s thought about the possibility of being picked as Hillary Clinton’s running mate on the Democratic ticket. How could he not? What with the “Ready for Julián?” and “Castro is in VP Training Camp” headlines percolating out of the political press. Even Stephen Colbert tried to trick the 41-year-old secretary of housing and urban development into saying he wanted to be vice president in a recent late-night appearance.
And it’s not that he’s ashamed of his ambition. You don’t run for mayor of San Antonio at 30 or become the youngest member of President Obama’s Cabinet without having a healthy ego. But running for vice president, if it’s even possible for someone to run, is different. If Castro dares show too much interest, he looks desperate and his chances evaporate. Looking uninterested, however, is also not an option.
“What makes this different is that this position isn’t really yours to talk about,” Castro finally said, slipping into second-person. “It’s not my decision; it’s nobody’s to claim.”
There is perhaps no better and no worse time to be Julián Castro. He’s an exciting, fast-rising Latino politician, coming of age politically just as the Democrats need him most. He will certainly at least make Clinton’s short¬list as a running mate. But what if she doesn’t pick him? What if she’s not even the nominee? He comes from Texas, a conservative-leaning state that is years away from electing a Democrat statewide. Maybe there’s another Cabinet position for him in the future, but the Cabinet was never his real goal. He could always retreat into the private sector, but that could squelch the momentum of a young man with ambitions still burning.
“This time I don’t know what I would do next,” he said. So why does Castro, on the cusp of going boom or going bust, seem so calm? It helps to know how the game is played. And it helps to have failed before.
Long before Castro was in the mix to become the second-most powerful person in America, he was a punch line, embarrassed by a Texas riverboat parade.
It was April 2005, the day of an annual floating extravaganza along the San Antonio River, and Castro’s big commitment for the evening was to ride a barge with his fellow city councilmen.
And there he stood — or so it seemed — waving to a quarter-million cheering constituents from the front of the boat, a leading mayoral candidate with a big grin and an even bigger future. The only problem.?.?.
“I remember watching the parade from home and saying to my wife, ‘That’s not Julián, that’s his twin brother Joaquin,’?” said Christian Archer, who at the time ran the mayoral campaign of Julián’s opponent. Sure enough, moments later Archer’s communication director called: He was at a town hall across town, and Julián was there, too.
Archer’s candidate, Phil Hardberger, a 71-year-old former judge, had been trying to paint the 30-year-old Castro as too young and callow to lead the city. These kind of “Parent Trap” shenanigans could help make his case.
“If you’re 18 years old and having a date, it might be a youthful prank when you swap out your brother,” Hardberger told reporters shortly after word got out about the incident that would be dubbed Twinsgate. “But when you’re running for mayor of a city with 1.3 million people and sending in your brother as an impersonator, I do see a problem with it.”
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