Can Texas really become a swing state when it is obviously majority Republicans right now?

In the commentary Texas Burka Blog, an article titled “Politico: In Austin, Obama Predicts Texas will be a swing state,” posted by senior executive editor Paul Burka suggests that for many years now, Texas has been a Republican dominated state, but in the near future, Texas will switch over to become a swing state. Although this blog was not written by Paul Burka but he rather reposted it to his blog website, the unknown author is not siding with Republicans or Democrats but rather making a point that Obama’s statement about Texas becoming a swing state is very probable.

President Obama’s audience is all of the Democrats in Texas because he is saying for them not to give up when voting for the Democratic Party because soon Texas will be a swing state rather than an obvious given Republican state. The author’s audience on the other hand is all of Texans in general because he is not agreeing or disagreeing with Obama but rather letting Texans know what Obama has to say and what he (the author) has to think of Obama’s statement.

In the blog, the author both agrees and disagrees with Obama to some extent. The author agrees with Obama in that there is in fact a good chance that Texas will someday become a swing state. Nonetheless, the author disagrees with Obama because President Obama thinks Texas will be a swing state in the 2012 Presidential Election, and the author does not think Texas will become a swing state until around the year 2020.

Overall, I really enjoyed this blog because the author was not extremely liberal or conservative and therefore the blog was relatively unbiased. Although the author was not as blunt about his opinion as some authors are, I still think the author had an argument which was that Texas will eventually become a swing state and Texans – especially Republicans – need to be ready for that. The author stated that “Hispanics accounted for 65% of the states…new residents over the decade 2000-2010.” This illustrates Texas will become a swing state because the Hispanic population is growing remarkably fast, and the Hispanics are known to be Democrats.

I really liked that the author gave an example explaining why Texas may potentially become a swing state, however I also wish the author touched up on one more subject. Part of the title of the blog is “In Austin,” which makes me curious whether Obama only thinks Texas can become a swing state because Austin is so liberal. Even though I am still curious about that, I think the author wrote an interesting blog, and I do agree with the author – I do not think Texas will be a swing state by November 2012, but I do believe in a couple years, Texas has the chance of becoming a swing state.