Sad, isn't it.
I still don't like an election law that says that winning less than 50% in a general election isn't "fair", and then give the election to someone a month later who gets only 2/3rds as many votes as the winner of the general election.
How is that "better" for democracy? It seems like instead of 60,000 people having their choice for a representative, we now have the choice of 38,000 people.
On the other hand, Bonilla couldn't get his people out. I guess they are demoralized.
I think "Not a Democrats" post back at number 18 probably sums it up. 3 Bonilla voters in a family, a month to get ready, two weeks to vote, and none of them either got an absentee ballot, or was able to drive to a polling place any time in the 2 weeks leading up to today's election.
The law you are talking about was passed about 1959. It was actually passed to retaliate against the late Senator Ralph William Yarborough, who won his Senate seat in a special election in 1957 with 38 percent of the special election vote. Thereafter, special election "runoffs" have been required in TX. The Nov. 7 election was NOT a primary but a special election. In TX one must have a majority to win either a primary or a special election, but he need not have a majority for a general election, as witnessed with Mr. Perry. I understand that Perry has hopped on the illegal immigration bandwagon too SINCE the election.