THe other assumption made before even reading the article is this person is a shu-in for re-eection.
Actually not. She is waaaaay too conservative (meaning she fit right in at the Demoncratic Convention last week) compared to the guy she is running against. Ernie Chambers. We had to change the State Constitution 4 times to get him term limited out, but now that he has set out 4 years, he is going back in. He had been in the legislature for 30 or 40 years.