Watts Video Shows He Has a Ways to Go in Texas

• By Stuart Rothenberg
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• July 30, 2007, Midnight

Having watched thousands of campaigns over the past couple of decades, I have come to understand that the candidate you meet in July of the off-year is not always the same person you see again 15 months later. Candidates, and their campaigns, often improve with experience, and they start to look better if and when their opponents start to fade.