As a precinct chair and party activist, know that I agree with you 100%. I will hold my nose and vote for him as the lesser-of-two-evils. (I'm not sure about that!
Perry was a Democrat; I think he still is.
I live in Southeast Texas, still home to the "yellow dogs." Bush won all three elections he ran in on the strength of conservative Dems. Perry is going to lose them; they have no reason to vote for him over Sanchez.
My greatest fear is that it will trickle down and have influence on state rep elections. Control of the Texas Senate was determined by the vote count in my county four (or six) years ago. And I mean vote count. The GOP candidate did not carry my county but he got sufficient votes to win the election which gave control of the senate to the Republicans.
We control 19 of 21 precincts in the county and I'm afraid we will lose half of them with Perry. It's determined by votes for governor.
There is a lot riding on this election and Perry is a drag on the ticket, IMHO.
That's a huge problem that will effect us negatively for the next four years thanks to Perry. Republicans control a huge number of precincts right now due to Bush's 98 landslide giving the GOP dibs of the election judge job. I'd be surprised if Perry tops about 54% statewide this November and he may not even make it above 50%. That'll throw a lot of our precincts to the Dems. They'll get to run the election job slot and we get stuck as alternates. And we all know what that means: 4 years of increased voter fraud by corrupt Democrat poll workers.