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Can’t we just move right into the Texas general election campaign for governor?<\/p>\n

How about just skipping these meaningless primaries? We know who’s going to be nominated: Republicans will pick Attorney General Greg Abbott; Democrats are going to nominate state Sen. Wendy Davis.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune notes that the new year will see a significant spike in campaign activity from both candidates. Rest assured, they won’t talk about the primary. They’re going to talk — a lot — about each other.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/01\/01\/texas-governors-race-getting-more-heated\/<\/p>\n

I’m ready for a rumble.<\/p>\n

Abbott has been the prohibitive favorite to become the next governor ever since he announced his candidacy. Davis is the underdog, given the state’s decidedly Republican tilt.<\/p>\n

Some folks have wondered where Davis has been lurking in recent weeks. She hasn’t been as visible as some have said she should be. Never fear, says Jim Henson, a Texas Tribune pollster. She’ll get in the game quickly, as will Abbott.<\/p>\n

He told the Tribune: \u201cI\u2019m looking for both of the campaigns to get very aggressive as soon as they find it strategically sound. I would expect that ethics and character are going to be big parts of both of those efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henson told the Tribune that Abbott will focus on Davis’s private law practice and her connection with firms dealing with the Legislature; he adds that Davis will train her sights on Abbott’s role in a cancer research outfit’s involvement with someone indicted for allegedly lax tax procedures.<\/p>\n

Who needs primaries when you have two candidates many voters know already and who are loading up for a donnybrook that won’t end until — gulp!<\/em> — next November?<\/p>\n\n

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