NIALL FERGUSON: I watched it: quite enjoyed it. I like that side of him, the sort of swaggering Texan. I can't get enough of that. The problem is all the Texans I know can't stand him. And that seems like a pretty bad sign to me. Because if he really was that guy that we saw, swaggering, they would love him.

Yeah, they really can't stand him down there in Texas but he's won the race for governor in 2002, 2006, 2010 getting around 7 million votes total.