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Latino Voters Give Texas Democrats a Map Consultants Must Redraw
· New York time
Latino voters turned out in large numbers to support Texas Democrats in the midterms, CBS News reports. Their participation helped power the party's gains in a state where Republicans have long been strong. The result makes turnout and outreach important parts of the story, rather than leaving strategists to explain the outcome solely by pointing at a familiar statewide color. Latino voters are not a single political bloc, and support in one election does not guarantee the same choices in the next. But the reported turnout gave Democrats a significant contribution to celebrate. For campaigns accustomed to treating the Texas map as a fixed background, the result is an expensive reminder that a map is a record of votes, not a substitute for earning them. Consultants can update the graphic; keeping the coalition will take more than changing the shade.
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