As i've said before, i don't really care about the gun control issue, and maybe Wendy Davis doesn't either. I also don't really care who becomes governor of Texas.

But Wendy Davis' supporters, both in state voters and those out of state who would send her money, by and large do care about gun control. And pro-gun rights people are going to vote for the Republican no matter what Davis does. So this kind of thinking gets it exactly wrong:

One Democratic consultant suggested that since Abbott supporters already tried to paint Davis as an anti-gun candidate, it may be pragmatic for the state senator to support the proposal.

"If the issue isn't important to you, then it would be smart to take it off the table by saying, 'Me, too; now let's go back to talking about education and how we fund road building and the stuff the mainstream of Texas is really concerned with,'" strategist Harold Cook told the AP.

Democrats needs to stop listening to consultants that think the way to win elections is to appeal to the mythical independent voter that carefully weighs each issue and decides, on balance, to vote for the candidate that supports slightly more of the same issues that you do. You win elections with turn-out, by rallying your base and getting people to come out on election day for you. And you win undecided voters by looking principled, not by flip-flopping and pandering.