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Battleground Texas
Battleground Texas is a state and federal Political Action Committee (PAC) founded with the goal of making Texas a swing state. It was established by veteran political strategist Jeremy Bird.
==Establishment and background==
Battleground Texas was founded by former Obama campaign operative Jeremy Bird, the national field director of the 2012 Obama campaign. In establishing Battleground Texas, Bird stated, "This program will make Texas a battleground state by treating it as one." Texas has not elected a Democratic governor since Ann Richards's 1990 election victory, and has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter's 1976 election.
Democrats have long hoped to make Texas competitive, and the state has a large population of Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, and other Democratic-leaning constituencies. The 2010 census found that only 45 percent of Texans are non-Hispanic whites, a Republican-leaning constituency. By 2020, Hispanics are expected to outnumber whites in Texas. Asian-Americans are also growing in population in the state.〔
However, Hispanics in Texas have not turned out to vote in the same numbers as other demographic groups.〔 Although Democrats have noticed the problem for at least fifteen years, they never succeeded in boosting Democratic turnout. Many voter registration groups, such as the nonpartisan Rock the Vote, largely avoided Texas due to Texas's relatively demanding voter registration laws,〔 which consists of filling out a form and submitting it postage-free to the county voter registrar〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Texas Voting )〕 and verifying your identity at the polls with a free Texas Election Identification Certificate (EIC).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Election Identification Certificate (EIC) )〕 Jenn Brown, executive director of Battleground Texas, has described Texas as a "non-voting state;" in 2010, Governor Rick Perry was voted for by only 18 percent of voting age Texan citizens in his successful re-election campaign.
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