How on earth did she get 18%?!
Look how low the Dem turn out and it may answer your question.
I think Dems crossed over and voted for Medina in hopes of throwing our primary into a runoff.
Epic fail? :-)
If you want my honest take on how Debra Medina won (or is currently winning about) 18% of the vote - in spite of the Glenn Beck fiasco and with essentially zero money - in a race against two well-funded incumbents... I can sum it up for you in two words.
Nullification and Interposition. As one of the primary planks in her campaign platform Debra Medina committed herself to pursuing what is very likely the only viable, peaceful remedy left to accomplish what most of us ultimately desire; the restoration of Constitutional governance and the deconstruction of the 100 year-old welfare/regulatory state.
If Perry wants to woo the Medina supporters in the general election here’s what I suggest he does. (Note, I’m simplifying the process here a little bit for effect... but y’all get the idea.)
First, call the state legislature into a special session and urge them to issue an ordinance of nullification against something (it doesn’t really matter what, but I would suggest something not terribly popular down here like EPA... whose mere existence constitutes an unconstitutional usurpation of Texas’ sovereignty by the federal government).
Second, once the state legislature declares all of the federal mandates imposed by the EPA to be null and void in the state of Texas... the Governor should then publicly call upon all the energy producers in Texas to begin producing as much energy as they wish, as long as their activities do not run afoul of any Texas laws.
Third, the Governor should issue explicit directives to all state officials and city and county executives throughout the state that they are not bound (as the Supreme Court - in one of its few flights of recent sanity - amazingly affirmed in the case Printz v. United States), regardless of what some federal official might say to the contrary, to enforce federal law, and that they (city, county, and state officials) shall in no way contribute to the enforcement of the nullified federal mandates.
and Last, the Governor should publicly affirm to the energy producers (itching to take advantage of their newly restored freedoms) that all executive powers of the state of Texas will be deployed to interpose between any federal officials attempting to enforce their unconstitutional mandates and the people of Texas.
Of course, the Governor will never do this, as he has no real interest in bringing down the statist status quo... because he’s a part of it.