Could Perry have been defeated in 2006 in a two way race

[Indy Texas]

What if Kinky Friedman had ran as a Democrat?

The guy who refused to stop saying the word "n***er" every other interview in a statewide run in 2006? As a Democrat? LOL. Perry would get like a quarter of the black vote.

It's crazy he did about as well as he did. He basically ran on edginess alone and didn't have the same kind of socio-cultural grievences that the modern Trumpist right does. Do that today and you'd be lucky to win 1% of the vote.

Part of the reason a Kinky campaign wouldn't work nowadays is that the type of voters disposed to be left-leaning are increasingly intolerant of the kind of "un-PC" rhetoric and behavior he engages in, in a way that wasn't the case in the 2000s.

Young Millennials were fine with Kinky. Young Zoomers would never stand for him. Left Twitter would explode.