Few incumbent governors likely to fall (Stateline.org)

Quoted: The partisan makeup of Texas is working in favor of incumbent Rick Perry, a Republican. The state?s unemployment rate is at 8.1 percent ? lower than the national average but high enough to fuel political attacks in similarly situated states, such as Iowa and Massachusetts. ?There is no doubt that the partisan make-up of the state is shielding Rick Perry from a fairly devastating critique on the unemployment rate,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.