This is Ron Paul's district. Lol.
Not really. This is the suburban (+ Galveston) half of it with Beaumont tucked on. The rural half of Paul's old district - and it's
very Republican these days - were given to Blake Farenthold.
What a glutton for punishment. Texas Republicans will simply use gerrymandering to get him out again even in the unlikely scenario that he wins.
Heh. This is very likely true. Maybe they'll dare split Beaumont this time.
The only caveat here was that the poll was taken back in May, even before the primary. 'Makes you wonder why the Lampson campaign sat on this for that long.
And yeah, I would assume that any poll of this district taken
in the spring would have Lampson ahead. Name rec. alone would ensure that.
They probably sat on it to claim that "Lampson leads Generic Republican X!" once the identity of Generic Republican X is known, ie they probably polled him against all the primary candidates and he led them all back then. Doesn't mean he will in November. Weber's showing in the Beaumont part of the district in the runoff cannot have been encouraging to the Lampson campaign (in the first round, the two Beaumont based Republicans took virtually the entire Jefferson County vote but failed to make the runoff, lol.)
