Why would anybody want to vote for Colin Allred? There are two obvious answers. First, Allred is a Democrat and a reliable party man, so if you’re a party-line Democrat, you’d vote for him. That’s why Kamala Harris is campaigning with Allred on Friday. Second, if for various reasons you find Ted Cruz intolerable and prefer a generic Democrat to Cruz, you’d vote for Allred.
The problem for Allred — why he’s trailed Cruz this entire campaign, and currently trails him by 4.5 points in the RealClearPolitics poll average — is that there just aren’t enough voters in Texas in the first group to make a statewide election particularly close, and there don’t seem to be enough in the second group to make up the difference. In order to win, Allred needs to offer something to voters beyond just Democratic Party loyalty. Yet, his biography isn’t just that of a generic Democrat; it’s that of a Democratic campaign operative.
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