I take issue with this guy's use of the term "barely beat back". I don't see how you can use the word barely to describe a 20 point win.
“I take issue with this guy’s use of the term “barely beat back”. I don’t see how you can use the word barely to describe a 20 point win”
Barely avoided a runoff. Getting 51% of the primary vote for a two term incumbent governor is pretty weak. If half of the party in your state is against you after six years in office, it suggests something is wrong either with your administration you as a candidate or with your administration. I imagine it may be the latter if this is true:
“A two-year budget tentatively approved May 29 in the Texas legislature, predicts that 335,000 jobs would be destroyed, including 146,000 private sector jobs and 189,000 government jobs. The budget also includes major cuts to retired teachers’ health insurance, state health care programs, state environmental programs, and funding for state universities.
The Texas Senate Finance Committee voted to approve $4 billion in cuts to education Under the approved budget, as many as 43,000 fewer working class students in the state will receive financial aid for college. In the nearly $9 billion Rainy Day Fund, which was created in the 1980s specifically to prevent cuts to education, will remain untouched under the current budget. $4 billion in planned cuts to education.
And this is just the tip.”
Looks like Perry’s chickens in TX are about to come home to roost. Maybe that is why he has flown the coop to run for President.
Palin by contrast upended an incumbent Governor in a tough year for the GOP and got 51% of the vote in a three way primary. In a three way general she got 49% of the vote in 2006 (against a former two term Dem governor)while Perry the incumbent could only manage 39% against the likes of Kinky Friedman.