Imagine Donald Trump winning the White House and appointing Hillary Clinton his attorney general. Now imagine something only somewhat less farfetched: Clinton defeating Trump and carrying Texas’ 38 electoral votes on Nov. 8. It's been four decades since a Democratic presidential candidate carried the Lone Star state. “While the trend line in Texas presidential polling certainly justifies this speculation, there are good reasons not to go too far down the road toward speculating … Texas turning blue,” the two of them wrote. In a “back-of-the-envelope thought experiment,” they sifted through past voting performance, current voter registration figures and other political juju and concluded that a Clinton victory in the state is awfully darned unlikely.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 21, 2016 19:08 UTC