I don’t know if this is media bias or just laziness, but this journalist didn’t do a thorough job of reporting on this race so I’ll help him out.
- Kelley Shannon glossed over Cornyn’s Big Bad John blunder – a mistake that became a NATIONAL story
- Rick Noriega has been consistently gaining in the polls (Texas Lyceum, Rasmussen), despite Cornyn’s cash advantage. Cornyn is consistently under 50% – a dangerous place for an incumbent to be.
- While Rick did a Ustream on Tuesday with Texans, where was Cornyn? Oh yes! He was tasting wine in Washington. (“On Tuesday,
lobbyists feted Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) with a wine tasting to benefit his re-election” – Roll Call) and about 400 people joined Rick’s Ustream! (While John Cornyn hung out with his Washington special interest cronies) - Oh and don’t forget about Cornyn’s mishaps
- Hurricane Dolly emails and his spokesman’s heated interaction with the Chronicle
- Cornyn’s Iran mishap and
- The most egregious omission, David Beckwith – who we still don’t know whether he broke the law!
Cornyn is scared – that’s why he keeps attacking Rick Noriega. He never seems to be in Texas. Does he even have a public schedule for his appearances?
Key to Cornyn’s so-called success = HIDE!
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Anonymous says
Don’t forget Cornyn suggesting that violence against judges might be attributable to the public being angry about the judiciary making “political” (i.e. activist) decisions.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/4/19239/09090
TXsharon says
Thanks for the reminder. That was priceless.
Anonymous says
1. Big Bad John significantly up’d Cornyn’s name ID.
2. Cornyn hit 50%, its even in your own link. That and he hasn’t even used his 10 million to advertise yet.
3.Rick’s Ustream turned to static and was blank for 80% of it— how sad.
4. I don’t even know these situations, so you’ll have to elaborate.
TXsharon says
Cornyn has repeatedly rubber-stamped this disastrous presidency enabling the dire situations we are currently experiencing. Repeatedly, he hes voted against ordinary Texas families. All indications point to a very angry electorate which includes many young people who are not included in polling.
Rick was TRYING to have a conversation with ordinary Texans, like me, with his upstream while Cornyn was with the insider, cheese and cracker crowd at a wine tasting.
Links are provided so you can do your own research but it’s no surprise to me that you don’t.