Where is the voter suppression in Texas?

Edward Stewart:

Sometimes the irony's so thick you can cut it with a knife. Try this on for size: a black Texas Republican wins the protected Democratic House seat in a district that was redrawn by Supreme Court decree to create an "opportunity" under the Voting Rights Act -- for Hispanics. It just doesn't get any worse than that for the Democrats and their robed enablers.

I'm not making this up. Congressman-elect Will Hurd won his House seat from Democratic incumbent Pete Gallego in District 23, the same congressional district the Supremes found fault with in the 2003 Texas redistricting case (LULAC) because it had enough Hispanics, but not the right kind of Hispanics to ensure polarized (the good kind) voting. Makes you wonder if those white racist Republicans just forgot they were supposed to be suppressing the black vote with terrorism and photo ID way out in Southwest Texas.

That's a question worth pondering. After all, a federal district judge (Nelva Gonzales Ramos) and three justices of the United States Supreme Court (Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan) played the race card just days before the voting began, arguing with fierce ideological zeal that suppression of the black vote just had to be the purpose behind the new Texas voter ID law. That white Republicans just had to be suppressing the black vote because racist Democrats had held white-only primaries right up 'til 1944. They just had to be doing it even if they didn't suppress Will Hurd, their black Republican candidate for Congress. Or force Greg Abbott to divorce his Latina wife, Cecilia, before letting him run for governor.

On November 4, 2014 Texas voters gave our liberal judges a reality cream pie smack in the kisser. The Republicans didn't just win; they won in a way that outs the liberal activists' slander against Texas for the leftist wet dream it is. Republicans swept the statewide races in a landslide, led by Abbott's 20-point annihilation of Wendy Davis. In voting that the judges will certainly denounce as polarized (the bad kind), Abbott won only 7 percent of the Black vote. But wait -- there's more to this story than just the polarized black vote. Senator John Cornyn narrowly carried the Hispanic vote 48-47. And in a race where Wendy tried to smear him as the enemy in the War on Women, Abbott won the women's vote, 52-47. He also collected about 44 percent of the Hispanic vote. All this in the state denounced by Ramos and Ginsburg as unrepentantly racist, 1960s style.
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While the district Hurd won was designed by the court as a Hispanic District, it has been a swing district alternately electing both Democrats and Republicans, but Hurd's victory does stand out.  He won because he ran a good campaign in a Republican year.  He should be congratulated on being a good candidate who connected with the voters.  So will the Democrats blame this loss on voter suppression?