TX-Senate-Research2000: Cornyn (R) leads Noriega (D) by 16

[Kushahontas]

i really really like kay bailey hutchison as a senator and i honestly would vote for her if i were of age. hell my entire family of staunch democrats voted for her in 2006 and she does a damn good job.

cornyn, on the other hand *facepalms* i'd LOVE to see noreiga take the seat, but i know it being texas and it being a presidential year, it's going to be a VERY tough uphill battle. cornyn would probably win but there is still time to make this race a bit more competitive. idk. *crosses fingers*

[Kushahontas]

John Edwards beat an incumbent in North Carolina in 1998, and I'd consider NC Dixie.

Refresh my memory:  who were the Presidential nominees in 1998?

LOL you beat me to it!

[Kushahontas]

i think north, central and east texas are often underestimated. there are counties that voted for george bush over a massachusetts liberal by 4 or 5 votes near the panhandle. east texas holds a lot of democrats who voted for bush over a liberal gay communist pansy from massachussets.

i think cornyn would lose in inner-city dallas, probably houston, san antonio, austin, and the rio grande valley with cameron county being the only tossup there but he'd probably lose it anyway.

it'd be close in san antone but i think he could lose that as well. also, el paso, beaumont-port arthur, some dallas suburbs and maybe we could pull off some surprises in east texas and sparsely populated northern texas closer to the panhandle.