Baldacci vs. Perry: Who has a weaker mandate?

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Each faces the pressure of creating a legacy before he becomes a lame duck. Which one do you think will have a better last term?

Just to clarify; Texas does not have gubernatorial term limits.  Perry could run again in 2010 if he wanted to.

While Texas may not have a strict term limits policy like the one for the POTUS, it does have an "understood" limit of two terms per Governor. I think John Connelly was the lost Governor of Texas to serve more than two terms.

I don't know that there is such an understanding.  Since the office became a 4-year term, most governors lost in their first re-election attempt.  Bush was the first to be re-elected.