His techniques included a "knock-and-drag" effort to intimidate voters to go to the polls (stopping by some houses 3 times on the runoff election day, hard to say "no!" to that group of paid "volunteers"), a racist "Orlando Sanchez is Anti-Hispanic" poster campaign in hispanic neighborhoods, a racist taped phone campaign to black neighborhoods with a message from one of Byrd's relatives about his dragging death, ad nauseum.
Don't think for a second that the Dems are staying away from Texas in 2002. They plan to win and know that they must appear "moderate" and keep the national figures in a low profile. Clinton and other figures will still come to Texas for fundraisers, operatives will work from behind the scenes.