Le Lowry says go vote on Governor's poll

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By Le Lowry
precinct chair

A lot of local newspapers have informal polls on their websites on a variety of subjects, like "Who's your pick for Texas Governor?" The are purely subjective, not scientific and actually quite important in the political landscape.

The people at www.mysanantonio.com, that's the San Antonio Express-News and KENS 5, have their governor's poll out and guess who's in dead last? Chris Bell in single digits.

As of 7 a.m. Saturday, July 22, Chris Bell sits at 8.2%, Kinky Friedman is at 23.4%, Rick Perry is at 30% and Carole Keeton Strayhorn is at 38.4% with just over 2000 votes casts.

True, this poll is a beauty contest, it can be easily manipulated but it paints a picture of the type of support each candidate can get out. For all of those that support Chris Bell. . . go vote.

As for Chris Bell, he may be right on the ideas but he has a long way to go in reaching out to the voters.