Talmage brings Abe Lincoln into Texas Governor's Race

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“The issue (of restoring the Union) is distinct, simple and inflexible.
It is an issue which can only be tried by war and decided by victory.”
 
— Abraham Lincoln, 1864

President Lincoln’s words can today be plugged into the “tried by war” situation Republicans in Texas will soon encounter as Gov. Rick Perry prepares to re-up for yet another term in the face of challenger U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the upcoming 2010 gubernatorial election.

Despite the recent demise of the Republican Party nationally, its candidates still hold all the statewide offices in Texas, and that unified record should stay the same in 2010. The outcome of the Perry-Hutchison face-off will answer the question in the front of most political analysts’ minds these days: Do the majority of today’s Republicans favor the far-right conservative Perry approach or the more mainstream Hutchison perspective?

Experts anticipate in next year’s Republican primary that only 700,000 Texans will vote, while the two gubernatorial candidates are expected to spend, combined, $60 million on the race. Do the math. That comes to $86 per vote as the cost of what it takes to do business in Texas politics these days.

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