Inside Intelligence: In the Second Race...
We'll get to the details soon enough, but the headline is that our insiders think Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is the candidate to beat in next year's U.S. Senate race.
Most — 69 percent — say he'll win the GOP nomination, and almost that many — 64 percent — say he'll win the election.
The details are interesting. Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz is the favorite of 24 percent of the insiders for the primary and 18 percent in the general election. They think Ricardo Sanchez, the only declared Democratic candidate, will win that primary, but only 2 ...
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Louis Benavides
The democrats are operating in the 60’s. The party is still controlled by the older generation who lives in the pass. If they continue to run the same type of race they will continue to lose badly. Many Hispanics want to vote Democratic but many will not vote for a pro-choice candidate. Another group who would like to vote Democratic are the Catholics because of their strong belief in social justice issues and human rights and immigration BUT THE PRO CHOICE ISSUE will not allow their moral compass to cast that vote for a Democrat. Some of them did for Obama because of the special situation that it was, that point in their life where their vote meant something special, but it will not happen again for Obama, for any pro-choice Democrat. What the party needs to study, is to look at Democrats that have won in the conservative South. If they want to WIN and not WASTE resources Democrats in the South and in any conservative State they must run on the issues of the State. President Obama received 44-47% of the Catholic vote nationally. A Democrat will not get much higher. In Texas a Pro-Life Catholic who runs as a Democrat and pushes the social issues may just be the winner that the Democrats need otherwise their candidate becomes nothing more than a waster. Vote