{"id":6698,"date":"2014-10-06T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2014-10-06T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:17:42","slug":"davis-might-be-making-a-race-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6698","title":{"rendered":"Davis might be making a race of it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paul Burka is a smart pundit.<\/p>\n

He writes for Texas Monthly and has been around the state’s political pea patch far longer than I have.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/home-stretch-0<\/p>\n

But he might have stars in his eyes when he predicts that Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis is going to make a serious run at Republican foe Greg Abbott in the race for governor.<\/p>\n

Then again, Burka is a smart guy who knows the lay of the land.<\/p>\n

The Davis-Abbott race is tightening some, according to a recent Texas Lyceum poll, which seems to make Burka happy.<\/p>\n

I join him in that happiness — if Davis can sustain whatever momentum she might have gained from a strong debate performance against Abbott.<\/p>\n

Will she win? Not likely. However, I’ve long wanted a tight race for the top of the ballot if only to keep Texas Republicans somewhat honest and humble. I’ve never been a big fan of one-party dominance, no matter which party is the top dog. Democrats and Republicans have ways of getting cocky, arrogant and too self-assured when governing. They forget that their state — wherever it is — comprises residents of the “other” persuasion.<\/p>\n

I’m still hoping Davis can make Abbott work for this victory if that’s where the stars are aligning.<\/p>\n

Poll standing aside, I am not yet confident it’s going to be a close race to the finish. I hope I’m wrong.<\/p>\n\n

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Paul Burka is a smart pundit. He writes for Texas Monthly and has been around the state’s political pea patch far longer than I have. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/home-stretch-0 But he might have stars in his eyes when he predicts that Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis is going to make a serious run at Republican foe Greg Abbott … Continue reading Davis might be making a race of it?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2006,3516,4627,4659,4661,5218],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greg-abbott","tag-paul-burka","tag-texas-governor","tag-texas-lyceum","tag-texas-monthly","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}