Texas going blue? Not so fast, pardner…

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As the Washington Examiner notes in today’s main editorial, the national media saw fit not to conduct exit poll surveys in the state of Texas after this election, costing political wonks and campaign hacks valuable demographic data on the Lone Star State.

That matters because newly-minted Republican Senator Ted Cruz is now echoing the warning of liberals like ex-Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean that Texas may soon go blue if the GOP doesn’t find a way to appeal to the nation’s growing Hispanic population, of which Texas has a considerable portion.

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