November 4, 2013 8:45 AM

HK: ABBOTT IN A PRIMARY RUNOFF?

Lunge to the hard right raises tough campaign challenge in general

The stunner in today’s Texas Tribune poll was not that Wendy Davis is within shouting distance of Greg Abbott in a general election, but that with all his money and name ID among Republican primary voters, he just hits 50%. One wobble and he could be in an unpredictable and volatile runoff where anything could happen.

By Harvey Kronberg