I think it would be nuts to change a vote based on the Houston Press who knows Judge Poe well, and certainly doesn't like him.
But what do I know? Redistricting put me into Ron Paul's district and he didn't draw an opponent on either the Republican or Democrat side. Free pass.
Please urge them to vote for Poe if at all possible.
I think the real danger in District 2 is George Fastuca, who is simply BAD. He's one of those rich guys who has never done anything serious for the Republican party (he says he went to a couple SD conventions - big deal) and now wants to get himself into congress. Fastuca is supported by the "public education" crowd - the schoolboard types who con taxpayers into funding their expansion projects, cave when the homos want a "lesbian student association" at the local high school, then run for cover and pass the buck onto somebody else when the parents in the district get mad. I also suspect that he is supported by the teacher's unions crowd for the simple reason that his yard signs may be observed in virtually all of their members' yards in the neighborhoods I've driven through. Fastuca is also an ex Enron exec who "retired" with a huge package about a year before they went belly up. He has been bragging that he worked in the Reagan administration, but he also worked in the Carter administration and appears to have been some sort of a holdover bureaucrat (which says to me that he plays both sides of the fence). Anyway, as you can probably tell I'm not too impressed with the guy.