he could've won if he'd done that in '06!
Assuming that everyone who voted for Bell would have also voted for Kinky and that everyone who voted for Kinky still would have done so if he ran as a Democrat, you are correct. However I think that is a rather large assumption to make. If you add Kinky and Bell's votes it comes out be about 1.86 million and Perry took about 1.72 million. That's only a difference of 140,000 votes. I'm willing to bet that there would be at least that many people who would either change their vote or not vote at all if Kinky ran with a (D) next to his name.
