Texas Gubernatorial Race

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The Jewish Cowboy

Friedman announced that he may sell his Pink Cadillac the Yom Kippur Clipper and get something that runs on bio-diesel.

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Kinky, and I have a good feeling. I'm not even going to bother arguing with the thick headed pseduo-realists who are so confident in Perry.

Given your contempt for Strayhorn, you might not like this next part...if Strayhorn implodes, just where do you think her voters are going to go, Vlad? And will that make Perry stronger or weaker?

Her money is coming from trial lawyers, teachers unions, and other groups who traditionally fund Democrats.  One backer is Tony Sanchez, the self-funded Democratic gubernatorial candidate from 2002.  They're backing Strayhorn becase they consider Bell hopeless.  I don't think they can take their money back, but having already made a decision to not waste money on Bell, will they give him any money?  Bell is campaigning for Strayhorn's supporters, but I don't know that much of her supporters would vote Democratic in the first place.

Her support is much stronger among women than men.  Someone who will vote for a candidate because they are a woman isn't going to switch to one of the male candidates.  And they are also aren't going to think that it is kookish to be complaining about not being permitted to use "Grandma" on the ballot, even though she has never run as "Grandma" before, and hasn't used the name in her professional/public life.

So I doubt that she will drop to single digits.

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Here are the latest funding numbers (through 1st half of 2006).

Perry $4.6 million new, $10.0M on hand.
Strayhorn $3.1M new, $8.1M on hand.
Bell $1.6M new, $0.7M on hand.
Friedman $1.6M new, $0.5M on hand.

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You know, if their were a single, centrist, transgendered porn star named Kinky Carole Bell, that person would likely win 60% of the vote.

Yep, I'm sure that type of candidate would fare really well in Texas 

Interesting announcement today of an endorsement of Perry by the mayors of Mission, McAllen, Harlingen, Hidalgo, Donna, Pharr, Palmhurst, Rio Grande City, Progreso, Edcouch, La Villa, and Elsa all in the valley.

Also Carole "none" X lost her law suit, and her lawyer announced he would appeal.    Later Carole "none" X, told him not to appeal, saying that it was becoming a distraction and she would run as Carole Keeton Strayhorn.

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Perry.  (What does IMO mean?)

In My Opinion

Also, IMHO

In My Humble Opinion

Also, IMNSHO

In My Not So Humble Opinion

When I first came across IMHO it didn't make any sense, since it was used in contexts where it was obviously the writer's opinion, ("Ben Hur is the greatest movie ever, IMHO").  So I figured out it that it was a euphemism for "asshole".   I thought it was pretty weird that people would make a fairly calm statement, and then call the person they were corresponding with an asshole.