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Former editor of the texas observer. good to see you. >> thank you. >> was the man who lost here actually a moderate, which he was accused of being in this race? >> not even by the standard of texas politics. he was rick perry's lieutenant governor, but he was also rick perry's lieutenant. the power has shifted. perry has been in office so long by power of appointment, he's consolidated his power, and david dewhurst was his fact totem in the senate, and his man in the senate cannot be a moderate. it's really remarkable, the sucking sound is coming from the governor's mansion two blocks west of...

Seat for the republicans, if they do have a prayer of it. and in this new poll, results out today from ppp, look at this, look at the margin. he's losing the republican primary by 48 points. that's the margin by which he is behind. he's behind a professional wrestling mogul named linda mcmahon. behind her by 48 points. it is hard to be the chris shays guy in this year's republican party. it's not like chris shays is a liberal. none of these guys is a liberal. they're all conservative in fact by any reasonable measure, but they're not conservative enough because there is room at all to their ri...

You know, it's a sign of the times. you know, it's what happened in indiana, as you said earlier in the segment, works best when your opponent has a record because there's always some counssel yags of that record, and that's what he beat him on, for cooperating with democrats as lieutenant governor. it's stunning. that's what he b cooperating with democrats as lieutenant governor. it's stunning. >> the way it looks like it was won is riding the national coat tails of the phantom tea party leaders of the republican party whereby calling somebody a moderate you essentially establish them as unel...

You're not considered one of the battleground states, although that's going to be changing soon. >> president obama speaking in san antonio this month. we do have election news tonight in texas. we have a winner in the republican primary for senate, which, frankly, means we probably know who the next u.s. senator is going to be from the state of texas. tonight, the tea party-backed challenger to the establishment republican candidate has won the primary. former solicitor general ted cruz has beaten lieutenant governor david dewhurst in texas. ted cruise ran from the right, calling david dewhur...

Away with the republican nomination to replace kay bailey hutchison, and there was no problem with his conservative bona fides that should have stopped that from happening until a changer came along who said he was outflanking dewhurst on the right. and although one might not think there was any actual room to the right of texas' lieutenant governor, and indeed there are no real policy differences between these two candidates, in today's republican party politics, really all you got to do is call the other guy too liberal. call him conciliatory, say you're farther to the right and more confron...