(03-08-2018 07:00 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Two more takeaways. Dan Patrick is vulnerable but again the democrats need a strong candidate in that race. And locally I was hoping the Democratic frontrunner in my local house seat - kulkarni- would fare better but I missed the fact that he admitted to getting busted for taking cocaine at age 18, a story which broke in the paper 2 weeks ago.

Sri Kulkarni will probably still be the nominee. I don't think that's really going to be much of an issue in the race (heck the voters in Ft Bend didn't care about Bush). I think that will be an interesting race to see exactly how much danger Olsen is going forward. Ft Bend is turning blue, but that district excludes its most Democratic parts. Kulkarni is also a member of the fastest growing demographic in that county, which are persons of South Asian heritage. I think that Olsen is probably okay this year...The real win in that district is to make the GOP's attempts to gerrymander metro Houston a real nightmare. If Sri can get into the mid 40s in that district, Olsen will probably try to move his district South and West, thus opening up an opportunity for an Asian plurality CD in SW Harris/Ft Bend.

By the way, I don't think Plummer is really a serious candidate.