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Texas Republicans choose Ted Cruz as the Republican candidate they would most like to see crushed by Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Courtesy of the Texas Tribune:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz remains the star of the Texas Republican Party, leading the pack in the GOP’s 2016 presidential sweepstakes in Texas and maintaining high rankings from conservative voters even after the federal government shutdown, according to the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

Cruz’s unfavorable rankings increased by 6 percentage points since June, and his favorable rankings fell by 2; 38 percent of Texas registered voters had a favorable opinion of him, while 37 percent gave him unfavorable marks.

But the real story is in the underlying numbers: Democrats don’t seem to like Cruz, Republicans like him a lot and those who identify themselves as Tea Party voters love him.

“He is far and away the center of gravity among Republican Party officials in Texas right now,” said Jim Henson, co-director of the UT/TT Poll and head of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. “He is very secure in the Republican Party right now, in terms of both favorability and name recognition. He is where it’s at.”

"He is where it's at."

If "where it's at" happens to be on a journey toward a humiliating defeat at the hands America's first female President, than he just might be.

At this point I don't really care who on that list the Republicans nominate because I give none of them a chance in hell. However if the Republicans actually put Ted Cruz up against Hillary Clinton this may turn out to be the most entertaining presidential election in Americans history.

Could a political blogger really get so lucky?

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