TX: Public Policy Polling: Perry only leads Obama by single digits

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If indeed Texas is drifting away from the Republicans, as pretty much the core corner stone of their presidential politics it might encourage them to shift their message in tune with it, or else fight for a new corner stone to be the big safe state they can rely on. I have a feeling they'll try for the later but would probably be smarter to go with the former. For a new corner stone to emerge to be their counter to CA they'd either have to pull off some wizardy to make Florida forever hard right or to knit together a couple large states that aren't already in their camp full time (like a major shift in the rust belt). The problem comes with what's been going down this year with the strong backlash against republican governors there. Folks are less likely to change their mind if they're constantly challenged, and in these cases they're being constantly challenged by Walker and company.