I was listening to KLBJ-FM the other day and the morning jocks were talking about Farouk Shami, Democrat candidate for Texas Governor. They were ripping on him and with pretty good reason. This guy might be popular in Houston but the majority of Texas is not Houston. Could he win the Primary? perhaps, but he’s not going to win the General. He better not.
Bob S. gives analysis as to why.
As for me…
Medina of course seems interesting and I do want to like her, but I fear voting for her will pull votes away from Perry. I may not like Rick Perry but I sure as hell don’t want Hutchison. I always prefer to vote for who I think is the best candidate and I despise voting to game the system. Well, I don’t have to make a decision yet.
Updated: TSRA has released their voter guide for the Texas 2010 Primary Election.
Perry: A+ and the endorsement
KBH: A+
Medina: A
Shami: ? (yes, a question mark)
The crazy thing? If you ignore the ?’s, most people on the list grade decently.
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Hsoi,
Something to think about is that we are just in the primaries.
Even if Medina pulls votes from Perry, the odds are it would result in a runoff.
We would still have another chance. I really don’t see Hutchinson getting anywhere near 50% of the votes in the primaries. Do you?
At this point, I don’t know. Still too far out to tell.
Neither Perry nor Hutchinson are particularly charismatic, nor do they offer much alternative to each other. My jury is still out on if KBH has a chance, though I’m leaning towards NOPE.