...Cornyn holds at least a 7% lead (click here) over all potential 2014 challengers, including former Houston Mayor Bill White (47/40), State Senator Wendy Davis (48/40), Mayor of San Antonio Julian Castro (50/37), and Mayor of Houston Annise Parker (49/36)....
The reason Texas has so many problems with poverty, gun violence, crime rates and the death penalty is because there is a smothered counter narrative by Democrats. There are wonderful people wearing blue and not red in their party affiliations with ideas that would build better lives for Texans. I refuse to believe someone as dedicated as State Senator Wendy Davis is unable to overcome GOP rhetoric that has caused this tragic realities to Texans.
One of the most dramatic examples of the wind change in traditionally Red States is South Carolina's Lindsay Graham.
TOM KLUDT –
The reason Texas has so many problems with poverty, gun violence, crime rates and the death penalty is because there is a smothered counter narrative by Democrats. There are wonderful people wearing blue and not red in their party affiliations with ideas that would build better lives for Texans. I refuse to believe someone as dedicated as State Senator Wendy Davis is unable to overcome GOP rhetoric that has caused this tragic realities to Texans.
One of the most dramatic examples of the wind change in traditionally Red States is South Carolina's Lindsay Graham.
TOM KLUDT –
Perhaps even more disconcerting for Graham, who is staring at a GOP primary in 2014, is his steep drop among Republican voters in South Carolina. The latest survey from Winthrop showed 45 percent of Republican voters approving of Graham, compared with 40 percent who disapprove.
Those mediocre numbers represent a massive decline since February, when nearly 72 percent of GOP voters said they approved of Graham. In Winthrop's April survey, about 57 percent of Palmetto State Republicans approved of Graham.
Three Republicans have already announced their intention to challenge Graham next year....
As recent as this past Sunday, Graham is staying the course of his rhetoric. He is hanging on to old lies and it is showing.
Those mediocre numbers represent a massive decline since February, when nearly 72 percent of GOP voters said they approved of Graham. In Winthrop's April survey, about 57 percent of Palmetto State Republicans approved of Graham.
Three Republicans have already announced their intention to challenge Graham next year....
As recent as this past Sunday, Graham is staying the course of his rhetoric. He is hanging on to old lies and it is showing.
