Tom DeLay not hurt by legal troubles - media reports.

The media in the Houston/Galveston area are reporting on a theme that "Tom Delay wasn't hurt by his legal troubles".  In fact the Houston Chronicle's front page link to their story about the primary says "U.S. House: Troubles don't hurt DeLay in 22nd"... and ABC13's story has a caption to a Delay picture saying "Tom DeLay won the primary by a wide margin...".

Continued...

A Galveston County Daily News story has a front-page headline that says "DeLay logs easy post-indictment win", and this from the article:

Tom Campbell, considered DeLay's top challenger, mustered only 25 percent of the vote.

Now let's get a little perspective.  In the past 20 years, DeLay has not gotten UNDER 80% of the Republican vote, yet yesterday he was at 62%... of Republicans.  An 18% DROP from his lowest primary numbers seems like he was "hurt".  So, one would think that means DeLay needs to work pretty hard to get those other 38% of Republicans to vote for him in November, but instead he says this:

Not only did they reject the politics of personal destruction, but they strongly rejected the candidates who used those Democrat tactics as their platform...

Doesn't he realize that the people voting in the Democratic primary WILL vote for Lampson?  And he probably shouldn't be disparaging his Repub opponents?  Oh well... I'm actually quite glad that he's doing this.  His stupidity will lead to an easy upset for Lampson.

•  Don't count on it.

  I'm sure some of those republicans who didn't vote for DeLay didn't vote for him because he wasn't conservative enough to suit them.  So it goes in Knuckledrag, Texas.

  by Rakkasan on Wed Mar 08, 2006 at 08:34:42 AM PDT

•  Congressmen are a reflection of their districts

  So, the folks in the TX 22nd is just a greasy and slimy as DeLay

  by dcrolg on Wed Mar 08, 2006 at 10:59:53 AM PDT