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...only the impact of Huckabee's socially conservative supporters on the SBOE election that has raised concerns in some quarters. Longtime Texas Republicans like Royal Masset, a former political director of the Texas Republican Party, fear that if moderate Republicans leave the party to support Barack Obama - and there is some local polling in major urban areas to suggest that may happen - it will reinforce the hold the social conservatives and the religious right has on the state party's apparatus...
...extremely bad idea," says longtime political analyst and former Texas G.O.P. official Royal Masset. With the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary still viewed as key launching pads, Masset explains, the loading up of the early February calendar can only mean that huge pieces of real estate and population like California will get lots of campaign ads and literature but will see little of the candidates themselves. "Those states will see many political commercials and receive enough direct mail to deforest a small state," Masset wrote in a recent commentary. "But they won't be talking to candidates, which...
...Given the crowded field, Texas Republicans would be better served by keeping their powder dry until March or later, Masset says. For the last 30 years, Republicans have followed a somewhat orderly succession process in picking their nominee, but this year's race is wide open. The last time there was an open race, Texas played a significant role that paid off later for the state's conservatives. In 1976, after a string of losses by challenger Ronald Reagan to President Gerald Ford, Texas gave Reagan a big win, making the race very close and setting up Reagan...
...district's Hispanic voters. But Hernandez attributes the victory more to the Democrats' national wave of enthusiasm, buttressed by party organization and money. Still, the result could signal a swing in support among the state's Hispanic voters away from the Republicans. "We are blowing it with Hispanics," said Masset, arguing that the Republican leadership "have been focusing on Terri Schiavo, one white woman, rather than the 12 million Hispanics living and working here...
...result of Republican complacency. While the party brought in George P. Bush, the President's nephew, whose mother is Mexican, to campaign for Bonilla, few other of the state's big Republican names helped out - largely because Bonilla was considered a sure winner. "Maybe it was hubris," said Masset. "We were caught at the starting gate, we fell asleep at the wheel...