{"id":326928,"date":"2010-02-16T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=67568"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:30:06","slug":"attention-texas-democrats-progressives-and-non-secessionists-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-vote-hutchison-in-the-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326928","title":{"rendered":"Attention Texas Democrats, Progressives, and Non-Secessionists: It\u2019s Time to Vote Hutchison in the GOP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Early voting for the gubernatorial primaries starts today in Texas<\/a>. Details are at the Texas Secretary of State page.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s 5 reasons why Democrats should vote early and often in the GOP primary — and vote for Hutchison.<\/p>\n

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  1. There is no danger Bill White<\/a>, the excellent Democratic front runner who’s polling very well against Rick Perry<\/a>, of losing the Democratic primary.<\/li>\n
  2. Perry’s failure to receive more than 50% of the primary vote will ensure a runoff<\/a>, taking resources away from him against White.<\/li>\n
  3. If Hutchison actually pulls the upset and wins the runoff, a victory for Bill White is more likely<\/strong>, because the teabagger\/secessionist crazies who Perry courts (and who Debra Medina<\/a> says she represents) will stay home on election day in November.<\/li>\n
  4. While it would be morbidly fascinating to watch Perry and Medina try and out-crazy each other during the runoff, the thought of Medina — who makes Perry seem like some sort of technocratic moderate<\/a> — as governor of the second-largest state in the country is too scary to contemplate.<\/li>\n
  5. Rick Perry is a corrupt, shallow, Christianist hack, and Texas Democrats should jump at any chance to finally get rid of him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Early voting for the gubernatorial primaries starts today in Texas. Details are at the Texas Secretary of State page. Here’s 5 reasons why Democrats should vote early and often in the GOP primary — and vote for Hutchison. There is no danger Bill White, the excellent Democratic front runner who’s polling very well against Rick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}