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Texas politics is becoming curiouser and curiouser. Take the case of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Texas Republican who has consistently been re-elected with record numbers. She is now seeing her lead in the state's gubernatorial race go down a rabbit hole - and the contest is on...
A major factor in Hutchison's fall in the polls is widespread discontent with Washington among likely Republican voters. Hutchison's storied 17-year career - she is ranked as one of the 30 most powerful women in the country by Ladies' Home Journal - and her success in bringing home the...
But political observers say it is not only Hutchison's Washington ties that are affecting the polls but also the campaign she has run. "The fatal flaw has been this sense of entitlement," says Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Austin-based Quorum Report, a political newsletter that chronicles Texas politics...
Hutchison also has ignored the counsel of Texas election experts, according to Kronberg, opting to follow outsider campaign advice and tried to cast herself to the right of Perry. "You are never going to get to the right of Perry," Kronberg says. While Hutchison has a high conservative ranking - the...
Meanwhile, Medina has been rising in the polls. In January, she raised $145,000, almost as much as the $190,000 she raised in all of 2009. Medina's debate performance projected a "calm, calm, consistent message that resonated with folks opposed to abortion, for gun and property rights and...