Texas GOP Senate Runoff

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The one who isn't leeching off Rick Perry for power.

Yep. Dewhurst has basically tried to claim Perry's record as his own.

In all fairness, that makes more sense than in Texas than in probably any other state considering the strength of the Lieutenant Governor there. Then again everything I've heard has indicated that Dewhurst is a weak Lieutenant Governor and Perry a strong Governor by Texas standards.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The Buckley Rule clearly applies to Cruz here. Don't worry, Dewhurst will still be around... he's running for a fourth term in 2014.

I don't mean to sound rude, but how do you know?  And besides, Gov. Perry will probably not run again, so he might decide to run for governor in 2014 instead.

Cruz isn't extreme enough to lose in Texas. Have you gotten a load of our guys in this election? They're pretty pathetic, although I guess it might help the most minuscule bit that one of them is named Yarborough.

Lieutenant Governor or Governor, Dewhurst gonna Dew for some time to come.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of Rick Perry becoming the longest continuously serving US governor in history.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

What patterns might we discern from this map?