I can't find a link on their Web site, but Esquire came out with endorsements for all House and Senate races. Not only was Noriega favored over Cornyn, but Big Bad John made the mag's list of the 10 worst members of Congress.
I always wonder to what degree our perceptions of what the electorate is thinking is colored by what demographic we surround ourselves with.
I live in the Nob Hill/UNM area and I see Obama signs everywhere with only a very small sprinkling of McCain signs - and in the cases of people I actually know those belong to people in their 70s and 80s. Given that it seems like very few people actually like or advocate McCain.
Yesterday we went to lunch at Thai Lotus which is on Osuna near San Mateo, and we drove up Lousiana to Osuna and then down. I really noticed that the sign proportions had flip-flopped, both for yard signs and bumper stickers. I imagine the McCain support is even further concentrated further to the north & east as you enter walled & gated territory.
I knew intellectually that support for each candidate is concentrated in different parts of town but its really jarring to see it in action when you've been out of the heights for several years. As a military brat who was raised Republican and converted mostly in response to how awful Bush has been its still hard for me to understand what it is that people like about McCain (or, in many cases, really hate about Obama.)
What does this have with Texas? Nothing I guess. I do kind of get the feeling that Obama people in Austin are much more optimistic about his chances in TX than they are in the rest of the state though.
The unfortunate thing is that Obama is very likely to be unpopular in 2012 because of the things that the Feds are going to have to do to help salvage the economy. It may wipe out all the progress the Dems are making in 2008 and severely damage the Dem brand.
The people at the National Review are all already gearing up for Palin 2012. I really hope the GOP as a whole doesn't think that the lesson of the landslide we're looking at (both presidential and congressional) in 2008 to be that they just weren't right-wing and religious enough, but that's the early sign if NRO is anything to judge by.
i know you probally know this but the noriega/cornyn debate will be tonight on channel 13 in dallas
I would love to hear an analysis of this debate.
it will be on many npr stations in texas...go to www.houstonpbs.org.. it will be archived there and available after the debate
Courtesy Tom, a USA Today article on Texas and the election: http://www.usatoday.com/news/
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