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November 02, 2004
Texas | House Races

Ok, for my friends around the country, probably interested in the Congressional races. If no one’s done it yet, I’m calling Texas for Bush.

TX 17. Wohlgemuth (Rep) has a significant lead over Chet Edwards (Dem). This will be amazing, Chet’s been in since way back in the early 80s after taking the reins from Marvin Leath. Republicans in central Texas have been after Chet for a long time. Carving away Ft. Hood and Temple from him seems to have made the difference.

TX 32. Republican Pete Sessions looks strong over Democrat Martin Frost. Both are incumbents, thrown together in the Tom Delay gerrymandered 32nd. Sessions 58% Frost 41% with 1% reporting. Another amazing win if Sessions does it.

Sadly, it looks like Charles Stenholm (Dem) is going to lose to freshman Randy Neugebauer (Rep - TX 19), two more incumbents thrown together in a redrawn district. I say this as a R conservative, Stenholm is a conservative and has served West Texas admirably. Like Ralph Hall from Greenville who recently moved to the Republican party.

Looks like Delay’s plan works. Republicans should pick up four seats in the House. I would feel badly about it, if I hadn’t seen Democrats do the same thing to Republicans for 30 years of my life.



Posted by Dave Rutland at November 2, 2004 08:49 PM | TrackBack
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