If you’re like me, your head is about to explode from the conflicting polls in the governor’s race. Add the various reports re. Bell’s TV advertising going completely dark, and it’s Dia de los MoFos around here. It got cold overnight–Austin’s gloomy and so am I.
So imagine the thrill when my new best friend Pink Lady at In The Pink Texas put up the latest Zogby poll for a little Halloween treat:
Perry: 36.7%
Bell: 28.5%
Strayhorn: 15%
Friedman: 14.4%
Andy Brown: 14.2%
Lawrence Collins dressing up like Andy Brown for Halloween: Priceless
Now, Pink Lady does mention that she had to “pick [her] jaw up off the floor” after seeing how these results conflict with everything else that’s come out this week. Frankly, her strongest argument comes from the Strayhorn campaign:
This contradicts Carole Strayhorn’s internal poll from last week.
Strayhorn: 65%
Rylander: 20%
Grandma: 15%
Read the entire post here.
My other new best friend, Charles Kuffner over at Off The Kuff, is a little less reassuring this morning, which makes me want a new new best friend. However, in the doom and gloom of How The Fuck Can The Bell Campaign Be Going Dark? (my title, not Kuff’s), Kuff does point out the Paul Burka’s continuing jihad against Bell’s candidacy:
Meanwhile, Paul Burka looks at the latest Zogby Interactive poll for Governor, which as previously noted paints a picture of a much closer race than the Chron Zogby poll does, and he comes up with another reason why not.
The bad news for Bell is that his success seems to have come not at Perry’s expense but at Strayhorn’s.
Dude. All campaign long you’ve said that the reason why Rick Perry is unbeatable despite poll numbers in the 30s is because none of his opponents have been able to coalesce the anti-Perry vote. Now we see Chris Bell doing exactly that – this is what it means when some of Strayhorn’s support migrates to Bell, as was the case when Friedman started losing voters to Bell – and it’s still bad news? Is there anything that could happen in this race that would constitute good news for Bell by your reckoning?
Sorry for the ass-kissing quotes, but it seems more important that you all know what the smart people are saying instead of reading about one woman’s struggle to keep her eyes on the prize by reading Daily Kos sixty-seven times a day while Life During Wartime plays on endless loop.
Finally, if the news about Bell’s advertising is true, the time may have arrived to do a little something with my hair. Who I am to keep my superpowers under wraps if the great state of Texas could be saved by a single bottle of Clairol? Any color suggestions out there?
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