July 23 2009
Politico: Texas readies for heated contest
Running for governor was supposed to be easy for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison — but so far, her fledgling 2010 campaign has turned out to be anything but the near-coronation Texas insiders had expected.
Hutchison, a third-term Texas Republican who has been a fixture in her state’s politics for more than three decades, was widely regarded as the front-runner in the 2010 race for the governor’s mansion when she filed papers to form an exploratory committee last December. A moderate-to-conservative-minded pol known for her appeal across the Republican spectrum in the state, Hutchison has never seen her general election winning percentage for her Senate seat drop below 61 percent.
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