'bad news for Kinky. If a voter was going to go independent, they may want to go somewhere that they won't waste their vote.

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If Chris can find a message and draw a sharp contrast, he can pull off a win. He needs to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans who are fed up with the failed leadership, but it can be done.

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This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.

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If he's paying attention and he's serious, he won't leave the state. There is one issue in Texas today, and that is public schools.

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That effort just got a boost this week. I suspect they will all have Democratic challengers.

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This race is about one thing and one thing only: Who will represent the community in this spring's special session on public school finance?

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