Texas Megathread

[TX Conservative Dem]

You guys also forgot about the judicial statewide offices in 2014:

Texas Supreme Court-Chief Justice:
Nathan Hecht (R-incumbent)
Tom Oxford (Lib)

Texas Supreme Court-Place 6:
Jeff Brown (R-incumbent)

Texas Supreme Court-Place 7:
Jeffery Boyd (R-incumbent)

Texas Supreme Court-Place 8:
Phil Johnson (R-incumbent)
RS Roberto Koelsch (Lib)

TX Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 3:
Bert Richardson (R)
Barbara Walther (R)

TX Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 4:
Kevin Patrick Yeary (R)
Jani Jo Wood (R)

TX Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 9:
David Newell (R)
W.C. "Bud" Kirkendall (R)

*NO Democrats running for these judicial statewide offices.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Dewhurst still shell-shocked at losing the 2012 US Senate race to Cruz and he's never gotten over it either.

The 2013 legislative session was bad enough for him due to the Davis filibuster.

[TX Conservative Dem]

On Meyers joining the Dems:

I was pretty shocked he did this at the last minute, but this is pure Charlie Crist-esque considering that Meyers is running for the TX Supreme Court in 2014, a race he'll lose for sure and I don't see him seeking reelection to his current gig in the Court of Criminal Appeals when his current term ends in 2016.

[TX Conservative Dem]

What did you expect? Davis's skeletons are coming out and Abbott & Co., are going to have a field day

[TX Conservative Dem]

Dewhurst will survive somehow in the runoff (if the 2nd place finisher is Patterson or Patrick) and last checked, Dewhurst is still leading by double digits, though not at the 50 percent mark.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Abbott still has the overall advantage in $$$. Expect the Abbott campaign to hit Davis very hard in TV negative ads

[TX Conservative Dem]

Patrick does have a point

[TX Conservative Dem]

Davis's inconsistencies are coming out for all to see: she's the Manti Teo of Texas politics

[TX Conservative Dem]

Davis trying to blame Abbott for these stories on her life coming out, but its not going to work. Abbott will destroy her so bad, nobody will ever look to her on seeking political office again

[TX Conservative Dem]

Florida's still a swing state though

[TX Conservative Dem]

Davis reminds me of the girl from the show, The Haves and Have Not's: pimping herself out for a sugar daddy with money.

If I were the Abbott campaign, I'd get her ex husband to be in our TV ads: exposing Davis as a fake.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Look for negative advertising, calling Davis a gold digger

[TX Conservative Dem]

The point is that Abbott has won 5 statewide elections while Davis' experience is light.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Abbott was just on Megyn Kelly's show, "The Kelly File" on Fox News

[TX Conservative Dem]

Folks think Abbott will be Perry's 4th term and pick up where he left off

[TX Conservative Dem]

You and I know Wayne Slater will never be invited by liberal news networks again after he published the scoop on Davis' lies.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Dewhurst will win the runoff over 3-term Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson (R) in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor, as Dewhurst is campaigning for a 4th term.

Recent polls have Dewhurst leading by double digits, but not enough in getting the 50%

[TX Conservative Dem]

Besides the wild Lieutenant Governor contest, which other down-ballot statewide offices do y'all see going into a runoff ?

[TX Conservative Dem]

Won't matter since Davis is just another overhyped, overrated sacrificial lamb just like former Houston Mayor Bill White was in 2010.

[TX Conservative Dem]

To top it off, Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News, published another scoop revealing that Davis used to be an active Republican until she switched parties in 2006.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Texas Democrats might as well start the Castro for Governor 2018 campaign signs right now

[TX Conservative Dem]

What odds you're giving Texas Democrats in winning statewide offices?
A. 2018
B. 2022
C. Never

[TX Conservative Dem]

Abbott says he's standing by the comments.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Bill White actually could've won. Rick Perry was dragged over the finish line by the GOP wave. The race started out really close.

On the other hand, I doubt Davis could win even in a Dem wave.
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First off, Bill White was NEVER going to beat Perry in 2010-ever: too much anti-Obama sentiment and backlash against the national Democrats were too much for him.

Perry still was going to win reelection by double digits and he did...by 13 points: 55% to 42% carrying 226 out of 254 counties.

[TX Conservative Dem]

The Dallas Morning News needs to FIX the Carter story.

She dropped our of the Railroad Commissioner race