2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Forget Sanders and Clinton for a moment. This is a symbolic schism that has been long brewing [View all]Gothmog
(147,059 posts)Living in a red state is tough but there are people working hard to change this state to blue. In the mean time, for this cycle Texas has almost 3 times the number of delegates as Iowa and New Hampshire combined. Even if Sanders does well in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Super Tuesday primaries will be difficult for Sanders to do well in.
Sanders is appealing to a narrow segment of the base and is doing well in two states with 90+% white vote. The current polling is showing that Sanders is not doing well in Super Tuesday primary states and these states have a large number of delegates that may determine this year's nominee
BTW, if the Rice University/Baker Institute/University of Houston study is corrrect and is applicable to the rest of the state, Wendy Davis would have come close to turning Texas blue http://news.rice.edu/2015/08/06/texas-id-requirement-kept-voters-from-the-polls/