Reply #4: Let's be glad there is no runoff (we'd NEVER win -- even Ann Richards won [View All]

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with only a plurality).

We can only focus on the good news:

1. Perry's lead is shrinking and his approval/disapproval rate is in the negative range,

2. Bell's numbers are rising and he's holding his position as the most viable alternative to Perry,

3. Strayhorn remains a siphon for Republican voters who cannot stomach Perry (and she will have a positive effect on straight ticket Republicans) plus she's mean as hell and she hates Perry and she has a hell of a lot of cash (Perry can't like this perfect storm for a hurricane of negative campaigning),

4. Kinky is only in third place (yet close to Bell) despite the fact that Kinky began with millions of dollars of name recognition from his singing and typing careers and now his reality TV show has already run its course (that was itself worth millions in free publicity) and despite the fact that he's spent a fortune on his campaign and he is now running out of money (Kinky's campaign funds come disproportionately from non-Texans and disproportionately from people who have bought the cheesy merch from Kinky's website and not from true believers) and nearly every election analyst in Texas agrees that Kinky will fade and the institutional advantages Jesse Ventura enjoyed in Minnesota are not allowed under Texas election law (e.g., same day registration on election day at the poll).