Women and don't see anything good coming from the GOP but more ways to deny women of our rights.

she has agreed to show up to several events and then cancelled at the last minute and after it was announced she would be there - totally.not.cool. Suck it up, Buttercup - you agreed to attend, show up. ;

she did not take advantage of all the good will and enthusiasm people showed after her filibuster last year - she should have held numerous Stand With Wendy Rally at several places around the state for a few weeks after she announced she was running, instead she went pretty much invisible for several months ;

Van de Putte is out there attending events and being very public, I'm always seeing FB posts about VdP, rarely see anything about Davis.

It's like Ms Davis really doesn't want to win.

You want the votes, you need to motivate the voters -- staying out of the public eye and canceling events because you overbooked or had a better offer is the exact opposite of what you need to do.

my 2 cents.

I'll vote for her, but I have no desire to even THINK about going to an event she is supposed to be at…I'm not the only one burnt out by her behavior.

Could you provide a link for this?

I'll tell you what I know, and I'm in far west Texas, where the red runs deep, is that many Republican women (and these are the volunteers who run the election stations and put in time for other serious enterprises), many of these women are voting for Davis, but don't want to upset their husbands or kids by saying so publicly.

These are ladies of my mother's age, and they are not wallflowers. I'm expecting this race to be very close with a Davis win.

only about a 100 people, so no news coverage, and she cancelled 2 weeks or less before the event.

to a party at a private residence.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

pro-choice and the health of both the woman and the non-viable fetus. Not having an answer to this question seems to put distance between us. Stance on abortion is a very personal matter for every woman no matter her age. Davis represents progressive women and men.

Is Davis for casual late term abortion? What she stands for and where she is standing are two different things.

I'm crossing my fingers that maybe she will start punching back harder after Labor Day; however, I also fear that it may be too late to close the gap if she waits that long.

This state could use a real "lefty" to campaign for political office, but there isn't anyone that prominent in Texas--yet! There won't be many major state races in 2016 so I'm hoping that person will emerge before 2018 to take on Ted Cruz.

Didn't she fire her campaign manager a few weeks ago? If so I'm not seeing the higher profile I was hoping for. I'm afraid the DNC and the big donors aren't piling the money up to her doorstep like Carville promised. I hope a previous poster is correct about the women's vote but you would think at least one poll would catch that kind of hidden effect.

I'm guessing the DNC's own polling suggests they think race is not worth spending the money on, which is very unfortunate for us (and I think a mistake). Is it just me or has this race been quieter than previous governor's races? It's definitely not 2006 or 1990. Leticia should theoretically have the edge in her race since she's running against the loonier of the two candidates and she's been in TX politics longer but again the silence is deafening.

As for a lefty candidate, we may have to settle for a moderate in 2018 to try and topple Ted, and they'd probably have to run as an independent because they couldn't make it past the red-meat Republican primary (or be unaffiliated to begin with, like a mayor or something). I don't see the demographic switch coming that soon for a "true" Democrat to win; 2024 is another story but that's a decade away. Too bad about Sanchez and Abu Ghraib, I thought he could have brought a lot of potential voters out of the woodwork if it hadn't been for that toxic stain on his record. And I don't think either Castro will touch a statewide vacancy until 2020 at the earliest; Julian all but admitted that when he said TX would start to become a swing state in 6 to 8 years.