Texas Senate Race Update for September 23, 2011

  • The Ted Cruz campaign is having a lot of fun with David Dewhurst’s ducking of candidate forums:

  • Jim Geraghty calls it the “Demonsheep” ad of the current election cycle.
  • Cruz also got more love in the form of a fundraising push from Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund PAC.
  • A new poll from the Dem-leaning PPP shows Dewhurst with (no surprise) a big lead in name recognition. The poll also shows Dewhurst, Cruz and Tom Leppert all beating Ricardo Sanchez (who, while theoretically running, has been about as scarce on the campaign trail as Dewhurst) and former Congressman Chet Edwards (who isn’t running, and hasn’t been running).
  • The most surprising thing from the full poll results? Elizabeth Ames Jones edges out Tom Leppert for third place.
  • Ross Ramsey calls Dewhurst “the Mitt Romney of the Texas Senate race.” Ouch! “There’s the part of Dewhurst that’s like Romney. Both entered their races as presumptive front-runners. Neither is the sort of guy who’d be at the barbecue at 4 in the morning starting the fire and working on the briskets and ribs. They’re business aristocrats. Swells.” Double ouch!
  • The Leppert campaign has put up the endorsements of Job Creators for Leppert. Of course, it doesn’t really help defend against the charge of his limited regional appeal when some 90% of the names on the list hail from the greater Dallas area…
  • Leppert also got some attention from the Houston Chronicle‘s political blog.
  • A roundup of the various candidate’s job plans.
  • Cruz wins another straw poll, this time at the Garland Tea Party.
  • There was evidently another candidates forum conducted by the Kingwood Area Republican Women, but I can’t find any news or blog reports about it.
  • Speaking of which, why is it that Texas Republicans have had dozens of candidate forums, and Democrats can’t even muster up one?
  • The Garland Tea Party event was evidently not a flawless success for the organizers.
  • And speaking of Garland, there was another longshot Republican there I hadn’t heard of before: Curt Cleaver, who seems to be running on a full-tilt Christian conservative platform. He evidently started running in August. I guess I’ll have to update my cheatsheet of candidate’s web pages. I just sent him email to ask why he’s running, as I do not think the Republican side of the race suffers from a dearth of candidates…
  • And this week, besides appearing as a question in the PPP poll, Ricardo Sanchez…did absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell. It’s been a month since his news page was updated, a month since his Facebook page was updated, and three months since his lone, solitary tweet was released unto the cold, cruel world. Does Sanchez actually want to run for the Senate?

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    4 Responses to “Texas Senate Race Update for September 23, 2011”

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