The race everyone is watching is the Lt. Governor, where the Republican, Dan Patrick, is well known here as he owns several radio stations. He is 100% for border security and no Amnesty and is PROUD OF IT. Seems to be doing quite well. At the bottom of the article is a link to the internals (PDF file). In there you will see that Patrick is, even surprising to me, running VERY STRONG with Hispanics, being only 6 points down (better than the other candidates). Hispanics, especially, know who he is, as Spanish Language media has been pounding him non-stop on the issue. Seems like Karl Rove might learn something here.
But unless the Dems can get Voter ID thrown out, it's going to be a very bad year here for them.
Leticia van de Putte-there’s a blast from the past! Wasn’t she one of the “Killer D’s”?
TEXAS IS NOT GOING BLUE!
aren’t 99.9% of those fleeing to Texas conservatives?
PPP is a dim sponsored poll. Wendy’s 14% deficit is more likely about 25%
Just looking at the internals a bit more, it appears that the whites are about 70/30 Republican here in Texas and also very conservative, whereas the Hispanics are around 60/40 Democrat...not promising for the Dems at all. They also aren’t fooled by the president, splitting evenly on whether they approve of him.
The Dems are really stuck with having to get HUGE NUMBERS of Hispanics to vote, to have a chance of upsetting the white advantage in Republican votes - and it will be quite a while before they get there, although Amnesty will certainly quicken things.
It will be a tough road for P Bush.
I will not be voting for him.
In other news, dog bites man, water is wet, and the sun rose in the east this morning.