...There is already much better analysis out there than I could ever offer.
Read these:
Winners and Losers: primary night edition. Perry vs. World
Wendy Davis' primary disaster. WILLisms
The media has been all over the map on this primary, with the national scribes saying the Tea Party is dead (thus proving they know nothing about the Tea Party) and the Texas Lock Step Political media declaring Texas to be a "Tea Party State" (Thus proving the ignorance of the TLSPM about the state as a whole)
In fact, the elections were a mixed bag for both the Tea Party and the Republican establishment, revealed deep flaws in the Battleground TX strategy for "turning Texas Blue" and revealed several flaws in the methodology of the UT/Texas Tribune on-line poll. It was a good night for Ted Cruz and the Dan Patrick results were surprisingly good (for him) but sounded warning bells regarding his base of support in Harris County.
The only person who came out definitively positive was Attorney General Greg Abbott. 90%, even against no serious competition with the largest amount of votes garnered in recent history is a huge accomplishment and demonstrates the challenges that Democrats have in beating a solid Republican candidate in what is still a fairly red state.
At some point, it might be illustrating to take a look at the vote distribution in the HCGOP Chairman's race in relation to how limited the support for the SD 7 group of 3 really is. Unfortunately, my next State Senator is sure to be Paul Bettencourt now, which is depressing.
