MarkWarner08
Junior Chimp
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« on: March 01, 2007, 01:27:33 AM » |
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We know it'll be a presidential year, we know Democrats rarely win Southern Senate races and we know almost never beat Southern Republican incumbents, but could this view be shattered in 2008? I think the one candidate who could win this seat for the Democrats would be Paul Hobby.
Hobby ran for State Comptroller and won 49% of the vote in 1998. This was especially impressive considering Bush was blowing out Garry Mauro in the Governor's race. Hobby comes for an aristocratic family from Houston that has a net worth in thew hundreds of millions. This scion has largely been out of the limelight since 1998 but his personal campaign cash could allow him to compete with John Cornyn's money machine.
Other interesting candidates are Jim Turner, who still has $1 million left in the bank after he was Delaymandered out of his seat. Houston Mayor Bill White is another attractive potential candidate.
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