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Texas Goes From Red To Tossup?

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Gallup’s latest state-by-state survey shows one major shift since the election: Texas has gone from solidly Republican to +2 Democratic in party affilation, making it too close to call.

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I find this a little hard to believe. Former Dallas Congressman Martin Frost argued two days ago on Politico  that Houston Mayor Bill White, a Democrat, has a chance of being Texas’ next U. S. Senator. To capsulize his points:  it’s an open primary, and upteen thousand Republicans will be running (upteen thousand already are). Therefore, a White win is “not inconceivable.” Note the double negatives. Frost is one of the best electoral mathematicians in the Democratic Party (for years, he drew Texas’ congressional districts on his House office floor). Two negatives may make a positive, but they don’t make a very convincing one.

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