Rick Perry vs. The World
15 March 2010
Or as they call it in the UK, Race of a Lifetime
I picked up Game Change last night, and I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now.
Interesting if this is really true, and I tend to believe that the book was reported pretty well. This was one of those moments that people looked at Rudy differently. Interrupting a speech to take a call from your wife? It would be a disaster for pretty much everyone not named Rudy, but for him it was a huge plus. Interesting to see that it wasn't actually a planned moment.Humility wasn't Judith [Giuliani]'s strong suit. Nor was leaving Rudy to his business. She called him constantly when he was traveling without her, no matter where he was or what he was doing. On several occasions the calls arrived when Giuliani was meeting with donors or making speeches. He invariably picked up the phone. "Hello, dear," he said when she interrupted him while he was on stage addressing the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association. "I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello?"
His staff concluded that Giuliani had no choice but to answer Judith's calls, because ignoring her risked dire consequences -- more dire than wrecking some speech. To the NRA members, Rudy apologized, but added, "It's alot better that way."
Perry endorsing Giuliani is still one of the more baffling things about that race to me. Well, that and how badly McCain ran his campaign from start to finish.
Posted by Evan @ 03/15/10 03:39 PM | Comments (0)
13 March 2010
Could Kay Bailey Hutchison win re-election if she ran?
That's the title of a coming post.
Posted by Evan @ 03/13/10 01:24 AM | Comments (0)
12 March 2010
Sigh, i'm tweeting
I'm on Twitter here as PerryVsWorld.
Posted by Evan @ 03/12/10 01:27 PM | Comments (0)
Factchecking Bill White, part 2
Bill White has been saying that Houston is not a sanctuary city.
The Congressional Reserch Service begs to differ.
Posted by Evan @ 03/12/10 12:26 PM | Comments (0)
There is value in a Houston Chronicle endorsement...
... if you're a Democrat?
According to Charles Kuffner, candidates endorsed by the Chron in the Dem primary went 19-7, with 4 in a runoff.
For Republicans, Chron-friendly candidates went 4-8, with 2 in a runoff.
Posted by Evan @ 03/12/10 12:10 PM | Comments (1)
RvK's Top 10 of...Rick vs Kay
Rick vs Kay is doing his top 10 races within the race. Worth a read.
Posted by Evan @ 03/12/10 11:57 AM | Comments (0)
11 March 2010
A Note on 2012
Put me in the Anybody But Romney camp.
Posted by Evan @ 03/11/10 04:39 PM | Comments (0)
Even California's politicians like Texas
California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman:
"If your ratings go down, it's OK," [Whitman] said. And: "You will never be popular in a turnaround." Yet her model of an executive-turned-politician is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- and he is popular. And in her mind, California needs a turnaround. After she had been at eBay a few years, Whitman said, the executive staff began to wonder: If we had to start eBay all over again, would we do it in California?
Which state would you pick? I asked. She answered, "Probably Texas."
Posted by Evan @ 03/11/10 04:07 PM | Comments (0)
04 March 2010
Factchecking Bill White
AP (via DMN):
White said during his time as Houston mayor he worked closely with both the Bush and Obama administrations but also wasn't afraid to criticize them.
I just skipped over this as I skimmed the article. And then, when I finished, something didn't sit right. So I went back to reread the article. And aha! there it was.
I don't remember Bill White criticizing Obama. This is, after all, the man who ran this ad:
So I spent 20 minutes googling. There are plenty of articles on Bill White criticizing Republicans, including the first result. I found nothing where Bill White criticized Obama. If Bill White has been criticizing Obama, he's been doing it very, very quietly.
Meanwhile, Robert Garrett reports:
[Bill White said he] took "a more aggressive approach" on immigration while mayor of Houston than did counterparts in practically every other U.S. and Texas city.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of other Texascities aren't sanctuary cities. Bill White supported the sanctuary city policy.
That's a more aggressive approach? I'm guessing alot of Texas swing voters would disagree.
Do you think the Statesman and DMN will factcheck this?
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 06:19 PM | Comments (4)
Barone on the primary
Michael Barone on Rick v. Kay:
(1)Perry won this not in rural and small town Texas but in metro Houston. This bodes well for him in the general election, since it indicates strength in the home base of the well regarded Democratic nominee, former Houston Mayor Bill White, who was nominated by an overwhelming margin.(2) Medina, the candidate who wouldn’t disrespect the truthers, did best in the supposedly most sophisticated part of Texas, the Metroplex. Go figure.
(3) Hutchison, supposedly the candidate of urban sophisticates, did best in metro San Antonio and rural Texas. She held Perry below the 50% level needed to avoid a runoff in approximately half of Texas’s 254 counties; unfortunately for her, those counties didn't give her nearly a big enough margin to offset Perry’s advantage in metro Houston.
A few minor observations of my own.
1. Medina won 4 counties. So if Texas elections had an electoral college, she would've actually gotten some electoral votes. That is very embarrassing to me. None of those counties were large -- Medina didn't get four figure vote totals in any of them -- but it is an accomplishment, nonetheless.
2. See bolded above. I feel as if there are lots of Austinites feeling a little wounded. And the Houston establishment is muttering, "But I thought Bill White told us we were world class?"
3. Barone later semi-updated his piece, and included a list of primary turnouts over the years. It pretty clearly shows a long-term trend of Texans voting in Republican primaries rather than Democrats. But that's not too surprising, is it?
4. According to Barone, without metro Houston, Perry would be in a runoff.
5. I am always very suspicious of any analysis that mentions comparing votes received in a primary by the two major candidates. There really isn't much predictive power.
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 05:36 PM | Comments (0)
Rasmussen: Perry 49, White 43
Rasmussen poll, 3/3/2010. 500 LVs, 4.5% sampling MoE
(Numbers) in parentheses from 2/22/2010 poll.
Perry 49 (47)
White 43 (41)
Other 3 (5)
Undecided 6 (7)
55% Strongly Disapprove of Obama.
55/44 Job Approval/Disapproval for Perry
79% think voters should have to show a driver's license to vote.
62% oppose ObamaCare.
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 05:16 PM | Comments (0)
Pickens and Kerry, friends for life
T Boone Pickens met with John Kerry to talk about alternative energy.
You probably know the backstory. It involves a Swift Boat.
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 04:33 PM | Comments (0)
Kudos to Kay
Kudos to Kay for immediately endorsing Perry.
Why? Because it says something about her character. There's no doubt her politics are closer to Perry's than to White's. Yet politicians, in fits of political pique, often refuse to endorse when they lose. And later, they relish the spotlight as the media focuses on whether they will endorse. So they make the winner grovel a little, eat a little crow, and when the media spotlight starts to flicker, then they endorse.
Kay ignored the revenge factor and disregarded the spotlight. Good on her.
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 04:31 PM | Comments (0)
Beal on the economy
Dallas billionaire Andy Beal talks about his outlook for the economy.
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 04:21 PM | Comments (0)
You weren't thinking about the headline, were you, Senator?
The headlines says, Cornyn: Perry 'unfair' in painting Hutchison as representing Washington
The actual quote, below, is significantly softer...
"Gov. Perry was able to posture this as a campaign[of], 'are you for Texas or are you for Washington?' " Cornyn told reporters by conference call. "Sen. Hutchison ended up being painted as someone who represented Washington, when clearly she has been representing the best interests of Texas in the United States Senate for a long time.
Texas has a lot to be proud of in terms of its strong economy…. It's quite a contrast to some of the bad decisions that are made in Washington. Unfortunately for Sen. Hutchison, she got painted as part of the problem rather than part of the solution, and I think frankly, some of that was unfair."
If I'm Rick Perry, I'm thinking "Mind your own business." And if I'm Kay, I'm mad for not saying anything until it didn't matter.
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 07:14 AM | Comments (0)
LOLaments
Bill White (D-Texas) vs. Rick Perry (R-Washington) is going to be a long battle.
I get that you're a Democratic partisan to the core, Mr. Martin, but...what? I'm pretty sure only Bill White has actually lived in Washington. And he was doing so to work for the Clinton White House.
Are you sure you really want to go there?
Posted by Evan @ 03/04/10 02:22 AM | Comments (0)
03 March 2010
Memo to Kinky Friedman
You've failed as a candidate on the GOP, Democrat, and Independent lines. Maybe it's time to give the Libertarians a shot?
Posted by Evan @ 03/03/10 01:30 PM | Comments (0)
Every election needs a map
Check the Texas Tribune if you want to see a color-coded map by county of last night's election results.
Posted by Evan @ 03/03/10 08:04 AM | Comments (0)
Does Perry v KBH affect Charlie Crist?
After seeing Kay Bailey Hutchison going down by 20%, do you think Charlie Crist is more likely to quit the party and run against Marco Rubio as an independent?
Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't understand why he doesn't just go back to being the governor of Florida.
Posted by Evan @ 03/03/10 02:12 AM | Comments (0)
Matthew Dowd to be the new David Brinkley?
Bush 04 chief strategist Matthew Dowd will have a short stint in the anchor seat of ABC's This Week.
Posted by Evan @ 03/03/10 02:02 AM | Comments (0)
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