Texas gubernatorial candidates court Hispanic vote in debate

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Texas gubernatorial candidates court Hispanic vote in debate
By Marice Richter
Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:28am EDT


(Reuters) - Heading into the final weeks of the campaign, Texas gubernatorial candidates Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis held their first debate in a Rio Grande Valley border town as they targeted support from Hispanic voters.

Friday's televised debate in Edinburg, Texas, gave both a chance to appeal to Hispanics, an increasingly important voting bloc in a solidly Republican state that has not elected a Democrat to statewide office in two decades.

Abbott, the state attorney general, holds a commanding lead in polling and fundraising over Davis, a state senator who drew national attention with an ultimately unsuccessful filibuster which sought to stop legislation restricting abortion.

Edinburg is in Hildago County, which is 91 percent Hispanic and where about one in three people live in poverty.

Among the contentious issues covered in the debate were voter ID laws, and the management of a border crisis that in recent months saw thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America crossing into Texas from Mexico, thrusting the Rio Grande Valley into the national spotlight.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/20/us-usa-politics-texas-idUSKBN0HF04E20140920?rpc=401

[C Moon]

1. Are they taking Romney's approach? What a joke that guy was.

[lastlib]

2. Abbott is

[C Moon]

7. Those who vote GOP, and are not in the 1%, are insane.

They put Romney up their last election and he opened for all the world to see: they don't care about anyone but the 1% and corporations.

But again, this cycle, your hearing so many GOP candidates saying they care about the working class.
This GOP candidate for Governor in California, was making believe to care about the working class in the last debate.

This would all be just laughable, if so many voters didn't fall for it.

[joshdawg]

3. Was just able to watch the first few minutes

of the debate, but what I saw was a mealy-mouthed lying POS parroting right-wing b.s. and perry talking points. Wendy was kicking his ass.
Not sure how the rest of the debate went, had to leave on business.

[sendero]

4. Abbott can brown nose Hispanics all he wants..

.... they know of his lockstep with Perry and what a douchebag Perry is. That little stunt of sending the National Guard to the border might play well with hls base, but it did not play well with Latinos.

[Dustlawyer]

5. But his wife is Hispanic and if elected, "She would be the first Hispanic First Lady of Texas!"

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Texans:

What is the Hispanic turnout in elections statewide? I know in California it is abysmal, even when there are Hispanic candidates running (no idea why that is). How is it in Texas?