projects like the world toilet summit. teapot museum in north korea and 50 million on indoor rain forest in iowa. she kept spending, spending, billions of tax dollars. senator hutchinson voting with washington since 1993. bret: polls closing in just a few hours here and we expect results soon after that the big question is whether incumbent governor rick perry can get over the 50% mark to avoid a run-off with incumbent senator kay bailey hutchinson. we will start there. we have a lot of political news to comp. let s bring in our panel. steve hayes writer for the weekly standard. a.b. stoddard associate editor of the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. there is a third candidate here debra that deanna in the race. polls going in had her back a ways. this race has been interesting to watch for the republican
opponents. she spent billions on projects like the world toilet summit. teapot museum in north korea and 50 million on indoor rain forest in iowa. she kept spending, spending, billions of tax dollars. senator hutchinson voting with washington since 1993. bret: polls closing in just a few hours here and we expect results soon after that the big question is whether incumbent governor rick perry can get over the 50% mark to avoid a run-off with incumbent senator kay bailey hutchinson. we will start there. we have a lot of political news to comp. let s bring in our panel. steve hayes writer for the weekly standard. a.b. stoddard associate editor of the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. there is a third candidate here debra that deanna in the race. polls going in had her back a ways. this race has been interesting to watch for the republican
person-to-person campaigning. i mean it, seemed like they were rewriting the way that a race was run in texas. this is related to our second segment on the death of the post office, paper is dead. and i think it is very smart. those are extremely expensive like direct mail is unbelievably expensive. and this is a whole new era. we are going to go completely digital in the end. people are going to learn from this race. i think what s really interesting is how much perry was able to use the anti-incumbent, anti-washington stuff. i want to add one thing. i do want to see a transcript of the world toilet summit. that seems to me something we have not talked about on this show. i think it s derelict of us not to have looked at it. bret: steve, once you get passed this primary and the polls will close shortly tonight, what about the republicans chances heading into the general election against a democrat bill widen? i think they are very strong. one of the things that i