You may, or may not, remember, because it wasn't something that would make a lasting impression, how a couple of weeks back that San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, the guy the Democrats kinda see as being their version of Marco Rubio, and his brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro, made the point that they see a lot of blue sky in Texas’ future. Very blue, politically speaking. The twin brothers went so far as to actually predict on "Face the Nation," that Republicans will come to lose their iron grip on Texas and that within two presidential election cycles, the currently "red" state will shift from a GOP stronghold to being dominated by Democrats.
These two, supposed prominent, Texas Democrats also said that Barry "Almighty" and Congress should tackle the economy, education, immigration reform and gun laws this year. Well Barry certainly is attacking the gun laws issue, and recently wasted $1.6 Million of the taxpayer's money to go make a speech ion immigration in Las Vegas. "It’s changing. It’s going to become a "purple state" then a "blue state" because of the demographics, because of the population from folks coming from outside Texas," Julian Castro said. Joaquin Castro agreed, but added that "it’s going to take a lot of work from Democrats to lay the infrastructure for change, we are very busy working on that now."
But if these two clowns are serious about trying to turn Texas purple and then blue, they might want to take a gander at a just-released poll of Lone Star State voters that found 67 percent of Republican respondents actually support the impeachment of Barry "Almighty." Now I suppose you could argue that that's to be expected, what might be of greater concern, at least for liberals is the fact that the poll was conducted by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP). And in the crosstabs, PPP broke this down by party affiliation with Democrats opposed 83 percent to 12 percent, Republicans in favor 67 percent to 18 percent, and Independents opposed 54 percent to 32 percent.
Now I do think it somewhat amazing, actually, that even 12 percent of Democrats seem to support Barry's impeachment. Also quite interesting was the racial breakdown concerning this issue with Whites supporting impeachment 48 percent to 41 percent, Blacks opposed 80 percent to 15 percent, and Hispanics opposed 58 percent to 30 percent. Again, it's strikes me as being quite amazing that 15 percent of Blacks would support his impeachment. It was also fascinating to see the breakdown by age as people older than 65 supported impeachment 46 percent to 38 percent, folks 46 to 65 opposed 46 percent to 42 percent, and people 18 to 45 opposed 66 percent to 27 percent.
So I guess if you live in Texas, the older you are, the more likely you want Barry impeached. Something else to consider is that 56 percent of respondents were women with 44 percent men. As women were far more likely to oppose impeachment (53 percent to 36 percent) than men (46 percent to 41 percent), a more equal sampling of the sexes would have found a greater percentage of Texans supporting impeachment. So I'm not saying that the bold claim made by the Castro boys can't actually come about, I am saying that they may be underestimating the amount of that it might take them to actually achieve some level of success. Texans are a rare breed, and have a tendency, regardless of race or gender, to march to the beat of their own drum. God love 'em.
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