{"id":17676,"date":"2010-05-14T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/texas-democrat-chet-edwards-reelection-race-on-life-support\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T08:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:09:14","slug":"texas-democrat-chet-edwards-reelection-race-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/texas-democrat-chet-edwards-reelection-race-on-life-support.php","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrat Chet Edwards reelection race on Life-support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S-ixc0N3ECI\/AAAAAAAALTY\/BdWa_T1USA4\/s1600\/BillFloresTX.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/24451_BillFloresTX.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>GOP Challenger Bill Flores pulls ahead<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Chet Edwards has been a thorn in Republican's sides for decades.  A liberal in moderate clothing Democrat in the heart of conservative Texas country, Edwards has managed to squeek by in reelection bid after reelection bid, against some well-funded and rather strong GOP contenders.  Finally, his days may be numbered.  <\/p><p>A new poll finds him 12 points behind the GOP nominee.  From Rothenberg Report via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=6952\">Texas Monthly<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>A new Republican poll obtained by the Rothenberg Political Report shows ten-term Democratic Congressman Chet Edwards (Texas 17) trailing challenger Bill Flores (R) by a dozen points. But Edwards, who isn&rsquo;t releasing his own survey, remains confident that he can turn the contest from a referendum on President Barack Obama and national atmospherics into a choice between the two candidates.<\/p><p>The new survey of 400 likely voters, conducted May 2-3 by OnMessage Inc, a GOP firm, shows Edwards remains popular in the Republican-leaning district, with a name I.D. of 53% favorable\/38% unfavorable.<\/p><p>But when matched against challenger Bill Flores (photo), who recently won a run-off to become the Republican nominee, Flores holds a 53%-41% lead over Edwards. Flores&rsquo;s name identification is just 37% favorable\/10% unfavorable.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Bryan Preston, Communications Director for the Republican Party of Texas told Libertarian Republican:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"Flores is out of the gate showing that he's not only competitive, but he's in a strong position to send Edwards into early retirement and bring more real conservative principles to Congress.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/24451_7828681836623105417-7641907480622692740?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Challenger Bill Flores pulls aheadFrom Eric Dondero:Chet Edwards has been a thorn in Republican's sides for decades. A liberal in moderate clothing Democrat in the heart of conservative Texas country, Edwards has managed to squeek by in reelection bid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/texas-democrat-chet-edwards-reelection-race-on-life-support.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}