Posted
2/27/2008 06:59:00 PM
by Douglas
The New York Times, on Texas
politics:“It’s like running a national campaign,” said one veteran Texas Democrat, Garry Mauro, state director for Mrs. Clinton. “There are no similarities between Amarillo and Brownsville and Beaumont and Texarkana and El Paso and Austin and Houston and Dallas. These are very separate demographic groups with very diverse interests.”
With recent polls showing that Mr. Obama has cut deeply into Mrs. Clinton’s lead in Texas, or even erased it, the state has become a political battleground to a degree not witnessed in a generation. And the rapidly mounting fight has reminded national political strategists yet again of Texas’ strange largeness — or large strangeness — a state that Congress decided in 1845, the year it joined the Union, might well be later divided into four more states should it consent.
Hillary and Obama are sure pouring on the money here in Texas. It seems like every other commercial is for one of the lying scumbags. With the republican race pretty much sewn up, I bet the Dems get a big turnout next week. It should be interesting to see how bad Hillary is going to lose.