Wendy Davis Stops in Borderland on Friday

Democratic candidate for governor Wendy Davis will be in El Paso on Friday. She will be in front of the El Paso County Courthouse at 3:30pm.

Friday is the last day of early voting. For years El Paso has tried to position itself in statewide elections to a position of influence because we overwhelmingly vote Democratic and because we are in a different time zone.

But as usual our turnout is abysmal. Her stop in El Paso on the last day is likely a last ditch effort to spike turnout. 

If the TDP is really interested in spiking turnout by having a big shot show up on the last day of early voting they should've considered having a big star like fellow Texas Democrat Eva Longoria attend. 

You'd attract more passive voter participants that don't normally have much of a motivation to come out and play.

That's why they GOP brought in Chuck Norris, although he doesn't have the demographic appeal in El Pado tha Longoria does. 

So the Davis appearance underscores the importance of El Paso to her strategy, but to an extent it also highlights the lack of an effective GOTV effort.