[Theodore R.]

Tony Sanchez was too scared to show up in during the election.

I seem to recall that about a year ago Mr. Sanchez said that people in "West Texas" would not vote for candidates who did not "look like them." He spent little time in West Texas, but his ticket-mate Ron Kirk campaigned all across the region, only to lose it to John Cornyn.

[RobbyS]

Kirk would have gotten more votes if the DNC had not come in and demanded he sound more like Sharpton. He is not afraid of white voters and knows how to talk to them.

[txradioguy]

Sanchez TRIED to play the race card and it blew up in his face. There are more people who "look" like Sanchez i.e. Hispanic, holding office in W. Texas than he can shake a stick at. And that includes the City COuncil and Couty Comissioners Court in Dubya's home town! There are so many hispanics (legal and illegal) in W. Texas that Mexico has a consolate office in Midland! So it wasnn't that W. Texans wouldn't vote for a Hispanic, it's jsut that we didn't buy Tony Sanchez's liberal BS. Same for Ron Kirk. His problem was that too may people in W. Texas read the Dallas Morning News. They knew what he was like from his turn as Mayor of Dallas.