We were still traveling all the time and hoping for the best (whatever that meant), but the bad news kept rolling in. The Farm Bureau decided not to endorse either candidate, to stay out of the race altogether, which was a huge blow for Jimmy—he’d been courting them for months and their support would’ve prompted a lot of people to vote for him. The media interest slowed all through September and then basically stopped. No one cares about a David and Goliath story unless David has a shot in hell of winning. And then in early October, The Dallas Morning News (who’d endorsed Jimmy in the primary), endorsed Candace Elroy. This wasn’t a surprise, but it felt like the nail in the coffin. After Matt read the piece, he slammed his fist down on the table and said, “Fuck!” making all of us around him jump. The op-ed said that Jimmy was eager and that they admired his intentions, but that Elroy had more experience and a measured approach to fracking regulations. “A measured approach,”
