So many idiotic comments here...
Bill White has no chance... and the idea that Rick has been "lucky" in his career doesn't really hold water. He took down an immensely popular populist Jim Hightower for Agriculture Commissioner in 1990 when nobody thought he could win. In 1998 he took down the wildly popular "conservative" Democrat John Sharp.
Rick has faced more than a hundred million dollars in negative ads against him. Tony Sanchez and the "dream team" in 2002 were supposed to shake things up. Sanchez was Bush's buddy, spent a zillion dollars, and had a top to bottom dream team ticket...
In 2006, he wasn't lucky to have so many candidates running against him. If Rick had faced Chris Bell by himself he would have won by solid double digits... oh wait he already did win by 10 points over Chris Bell as it was...
In 2010, Kay was up by dozens of points and was considered the greatest political force in Texas politics... she brought in a dream team of the best staffers... she was not some slouch of an opponent. She was certainly more of a force than Bill White... by far. Bill White out of all of those mentioned above is not really outstanding...
The whole "he is below 50%" line is one of the most outdated lines of thinking out there. Rick never polled above 50% before the primary and won with over 50% and without a run off...
A tip for Jim McGrath. If you are going to go on television and rep the Republicans, rep the Republicans. Know the talking points... or at least know what you are talking about... are you on the team or not?
A tip for Anthony Gutierrez... try to get your facts less wrong next time. Rick has been above 50% and is averaging right near 50% in all the polls according to the TPM average (link)...
Bill White is on a downward trend since March... and Rick has not even run any ads against him. Bill White ran more than a million dollars worth of television ads though and just kept falling...
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Hey now, campaign characters. Be nice. I know a lot of you on both sides, so I don't want any overly foul language, personal attacks on anyone other than the candidates themselves, or other party fouls. I will moderate the heck out of you if you start breaking the bounds of civility.