[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This can't be. Haven't the media types been saying ever since the primary that the Democrat Hispanic, Black, Anglo 'Dream Team', was unbeatable, and that they were going to beat Perry and company like a drum?

[Coop]

Haven't the media types been saying ever since the primary that the Democrat Hispanic, Black, Anglo 'Dream Team', was unbeatable, and that they were going to beat Perry and company like a drum?

I've actually heard the Dream Team discussion applied to the Kirk Senate race against John Cornyn. Early polls show that to be a much closer race, though Cornyn is leading.

[Dog Gone]

The "Dream Team" of Texas Democrats is actually the "Crack Team," as in "they're smoking crack if they think they can actually win."

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

Jeff Montgomery of Austin, a Democratic consultant and pollster whose firm conducted the survey, said the findings bode badly for Mr. Sanchez, who spent $20 million in the March primary.

...Ray Sullivan, a Perry spokesman, said: "It is consistent with what we are seeing in our internal polling. I think it makes it clear why Mr. Sanchez has launched four negative attack ads in the past four days."

In the survey, Mr. Perry was the favorite of 59 percent, and 34 percent favored Mr. Sanchez. The rest were undecided.

This is good news, even though it's still quite early. 25 points is comfortable, though not insurmountable with Sanchez's current one million dollar per week ad buy. Then again, if your numbers look like that after spending so much, maybe there's a backlash effect. Too many commercials, when Perry hasn't had a single TV ad makes it look like Sanchez is trying to buy the race, which of course he is. The Jon Corzine effect may not work in Texas. However, I have to wonder how much of this is strategic on the part of the Rat pollster to stir up minority turnout.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

The poll of 1,066 Texans who voted in at least one of the last two general elections was conducted May 7-13

Thus, the sample probably underrepresents Hispanic and black turnout.