• Whatever one thinks of lawyers, at least most of them are trained to have respect for the law. My experience with business types like the current gang running the executive branch is that the law is something to be ignored whenever possible, manipulated when necessary, and selectively interpreted when forced. The consequences have been awful- Iran/Contra under Reagan and Bush 1, and wholesale assault on the Constitution, the disrespect for international law, and the contempt for the legal process under Bush 2 and his henchmen, especially Dick Cheney. So the lawyers get my vote.
• Texas has a well-deserved reputation as having a frontier ethos, characterized by god, guns, and football as well as an anti-intellectualism that solves complex issues with simple, easy - to-understand answers that are wrong. Arizona and the O.K. corral is not far behind, but the only place that is more rabid along these lines is Alaska. I've had enough of "common sense" and ideology driving the definitions of problems and their solutions. So no votes for the shoot-from-the- hip types.