Extreme Conservative stating what's wrong with the Democratic party? This should be good.

Obama’s Man in Texas posted July 22, 2014 by Rick Perry vs The World is about what the Democrats’ plan of attack is to get increased votes in Texas for candidate Wendy Davis and why it won’t work. The author states that their plan is: “turning out registered minority voters who often stay home; registering unregistered minority voters; and attracting the support of suburban white women.” My initial feelings were that this was a reasonable strategy for Davis to have a fighting chance and to maybe even make Texas a purple state. Moreover, seeing this as an extreme conservative criticizing the Democratic Party, I was ready for the author to scoff at the idea while maybe even being a little racist or sexist. But I was mistaken. He shot down all three components with fair reasoning and evidence. He stated how Davis would not get more registered minorities to vote and would get even less minority turnout than the last major election (2012 Presidential). He stated that Davis is less relatable than Obama to minorities and how their vote for governor would make less of a difference in this election than the close 2012 presidential race. He used this same reasoning for the strategy of registering minority voters and stated how it would be even harder to convince someone to register and then vote for a candidate that will most likely lose (and is less relatable to the target audience—minorities). He then stated that winning the vote of suburban women is absurd because they would be pushing a pro-immigration and pro-abortion platform and hope that Republican women would go for that. I agree with his claim that you cannot try to get the vote for both minorities and suburban Republican women because they have almost opposite ideologies. While I was far from the extremely right wing target audience and skeptical about a piece about the faults of Democrats, I was happily surprised to agree with the majority of his reasoning. I think that all three strategies of the Democratic Party will work to some degree, but I agree that they will be, for the most part, unsuccessful because of the reasons he stated. Something that he did not touch on in his argument is the long-term affects. While I agree that these strategies will not work in this upcoming election, I believe that mobilizing minorities will be significant in the long run (especially with all the Hispanic population growth predicted in our readings). But, as of now he is most likely correct in arguing that these strategies will not work for the upcoming election. What I learned from this is that (even as a moderate) I was the one who came in with bias into this topic and was persuaded out of my initial beliefs by someone who is far to one side of the political spectrum. I now know that people can be resistant to new information from someone based on the stereotypes of that person’s ideology or political party.