Junk poll, though Cruz is likely to be favored to win reelection. 53-44% would be my prediction right now.
So you think the perfect candidate in a wave election is going to do 4% better than a nobody in 2012? Ok, lol.
O'Rourke is hardly the "perfect candidate", lol. He's vastly overrated here, not that TX Dems have too many better choices. But I agree with your point in general.
The only candidates I think you could make a case for being better than O'Rourke are the Castros, speaking of vastly overrated.
Are we talking realistic candidates, or ideal candidates? If you mean the former I agree (I'd rather have O'Rourke than the Castros, who I agree are also overrated) but he is far from "perfect" if we're talking ideal.
Yeah, I meant perfect in the sense that he's a great candidate and the best we've got in Texas, not that if you designed a Democrat in a lab to beat Cruz you'd end up with O'Rourke. I see how my initial post could imply that, though.