I think the Ronnie Earle attack will change that this year. There is a certain segment, even among Republicans, who are politically tone deaf, who just hear some vague background noise about DeLay being a crook. He's going to have to reach them somehow and reassure them in order to be re-elected.
I thought Delay campaigned pretty vigorously last year. I remember reading in the Washington Post that for the first time in many years he'd been attending as many local events as possible to press the flesh.
I'm not worried about this district, because I don't think they'd accept a Democrat no matter what the circumstances. But I think it's going to be a lot closer than people here are saying, based on the '04 results and the prospect of a trial, and the comfort I take is that by some result Delay loses to a 51% Democrat, then Lampson's going to get bounced like a beach ball in the next election by any Republican with a pulse.