Dallas Morning News Presidential Endorsement

Editorial out this morning. They didn't endorse Hillary, of course. They haven't endorsed a Democrat in seven decades. But, they refused to endorse Trump and declared him unqualified to serve.

So, the paper of record in each of two of the ten largest cities in the nation (Houston, Dallas), both in one of the reddest states ever, have shunned the Republican nominee. I don't know if San Antonio has taken a stance (also one of the ten largest), but if, as some predict, Texas may be blue again in another twenty or thirty years, this might be a milestone.

[swampdragon]

If he isnt a Republican then how come he is the Republican nominee? - you all created him!

Rachel Maddow was being generous when she said that Trump is the weed that grew in the cracks of the Republican party - but in reality he grew in the Republican soil

[Hornsby]

Editorial out this morning. They didn't endorse Hillary, of course. They haven't endorsed a Democrat in seven decades. But, they refused to endorse Trump and declared him unqualified to serve.

So, the paper of record in each of two of the ten largest cities in the nation (Houston, Dallas), both in one of the reddest states ever, have shunned the Republican nominee. I don't know if San Antonio has taken a stance (also one of the ten largest), but if, as some predict, Texas may be blue again in another twenty or thirty years, this might be a milestone.

To your point, the WaPo did a 50 state election poll, and this was one of the takeaways...

Of all the states, Texas provided the most unexpected result. The Lone Star State has been a conservative Republican bastion for the past four decades. In 2012, President Obama lost the state by 16 points. For Democrats, it has been among the 10 to 15 worst-performing states in the past four elections.

The Post-SurveyMonkey poll of Texas shows a dead heat with Clinton at 46 percent and Trump at 45 percent. Democrats have long claimed that changing demographics would make the state competitive in national elections, but probably not for several more cycles.

A comparison of the current survey with the 2008 Texas exit poll (there was no exit poll there in 2012) points to reasons the race appears close right now. Trump is performing worse than 2008 GOP nominee John McCain among both whites and Hispanics, while Clinton is doing slightly better than Obama.

Among men, Trump is doing slightly worse than McCain did eight years ago. The bigger difference is among women. McCain won a narrow majority of women in Texas while Trump is currently below 40 percent. That’s not to say Texas is turning blue in 2016. Given its history, it probably will back Trump in November and possibly by a comfortable margin. But at this stage, the fact that it is close at all is one more surprise in a surprising year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-new-50-state-poll-shows-exactly-why-clinton-holds-the-advantage-over-trump/2016/09/05/13458832-7152-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation