Texas Primaries: Who Do We Support?

[gnuschler]

Wow, she didn't even stand a chance. At least she tried and hopefully she energized a new band of supporters in her area.

She is certainly a nice enough person, and her heart is in the right place ... however, she's a graduate student with no "real world" experience. As the North Texas Tea Party put it, "we felt Stacey Chen is very dedicated to liberty issues, but felt she needs some more experience before she would be ready for the rough-and-tumble world of Austin." Besides, Matt Shaheen is a reliable conservative with five years experience as a County Commissioner ... he's already committed to oppose Joe Straus as Speaker.

 

[Pericles]

It may be better to just campaign on smaller government and less taxes. Keep it simple.

Of course there is nothing you can do about the establishment media smearing every Tea Party candidate. And then there's the low information voters. I have relatives in Texas that said "hell yeah, we vote Republican!". Asked them who they voted for in the Primary, they didn't even know. Probably the incumbents. The false left/right, Democrat/Republican thing has bamboozled the majority of voters. They don't even care about Primaries.

The rest of the story is look at the web site of every candidate running for office in the R party. They at least feel it necessary to state some kind of "screw you feds" as part of their messaging. The challenge is to sort out the doers from the talkers.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

So wait a second, Zamora's opponent, incumbent Ruben Hinojosa, not only faced Zamora before, but won with 61 percent of the vote back in 2006? I mean, does Zamora even stand a ghost of a chance?

 

[MichaelDavis]

So wait a second, Zamora's opponent, incumbent Ruben Hinojosa, not only faced Zamora before, but won with 61 percent of the vote back in 2006? I mean, does Zamora even stand a ghost of a chance?

No. TX-15 is considered a safe Democratic District with a Cook PVI of D+5. Eddie Zamora is a perennial candidate who has lost to Hinojosa in 2006, 2008, and 2010.

 

[MichaelDavis]

Updated for runoffs.