Unlike the situations in other states, Why Wendy Davis lost is an easy one to understand.
Her campaign's biggest mistake was trying to win the election based on getting the most votes from the same group of people who always turn out and vote in Texas.
That group is solidly Republican, and has been ever since the conservative leadership of the state switched parties when the parties traded ideologies.
That means the positions Wendy staked out, like women's reproductive rights, immediately lost Wendy their vote for the most part. It was with glee that they greeted her announcement to run by naming her abortion barbie.
The balance of the crowd that regularly turns out for all Texas elections White Urban Liberals and the minority communities are at max 42-43%.
Obviously winning every single one of those votes would still not be enough to win a statewide election.
So from the get go, for Davis to have any hope of winning, she'd have to find votes elsewhere.
One would think therefore, that the biggest effort of her campaign should have been a well orchestrated, new voter registration drive.
Now I don't say this is easy.
It's extremely hard, but for a Democrat to win in Texas, there is no other option.
Yet for some reason, no special focus was placed on bringing in new voters to balance the very conservative regular voters that decide every election.
The fear of such an effort was one big reason why the Republicans passed the cumbersome register to vote requirements.
They knew if someone can get those people to register and vote, then Democrats have a fair chance to win a statewide election.
Texas regularly ranks at or near the bottom in voter turn out. That means a serious voter registration drive holds potential as long as it's done right, but the Davis campaign seemed oblivious to this.
Neither I nor my neighbor saw any such effort. I mention her, because she was until recently very connected in the Black community here through the office she held and her decades as a national officer in her church the African Methodist.
She definitely would know about such an effort. All I heard from her was how disappointed she was that not only was their no focused drive to register the new voters needed in order to win.