[Viennacon]

Stovall has the grassroots support of Texas. He wins the straw polls, but his name ID is terrible. Nobody knows who he is. That’s why I can only really see Stockman forcing the runoff. Unfortunately, while he has the conservative chops on most things, he is no Ted Cruz as a political operator. If Stockman wins it will not be through his own talent or hard work (the man has done virtually no campaigning). It will be us dragging him over the finish line. Happy to help though, as long as he pledges loyalty to our caucus of course.

[JRandomFreeper]

Nobody knew who Cruz was either, until the race entered the run-off. There were a bunch of challengers to Dewhurst in that race, too.

/johnny

[txhurl]

Feel exactly as you do.

What bothers me is I see no visible support from Cruz for Stovall. I mean, even an accidental photo of them in line buying slurpees in a Houston 7-11 would send me hurtling into Stovall’s arms.

[basil]

This is going to be a tough one…..we need to get rid of Corynan, of course, but we have at least 2 candidates that will be diluting each other’s votes, and people here like both of them.

I guess that’s what primaries are for.

[Marcella]

“Stovall has the grassroots support of Texas. He wins the straw polls, but his name ID is terrible.”

He has grassroots support and wins the straw polls because they know his name so how can his Name ID be terrible? That makes no sense. Various Tea Party groups have endorsed him - why do you think that is?

Stovall for Texas US Senator.