Negotiations back-room analysis running overtime?
CQ Politics 
The Texas governors race has taken a few twists and turns with one Deomocratic candidate dropping out and one possible player to be named later. A Bill White gubernatorial campaign would give Democrats the big-name candidate they lack.
Houstons Democratic Mayor Bill White said Monday that he is considering dropping his 2010 Senate bid in the as-yet-unscheduled special election to
succeed
GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in favor of running for governor instead.
Since Friday a week ago Texans from all backgrounds have asked me to consider running for governor of Texas White said at a news conference Monday according to Houston television station KHOU.
I agree to consider running for that office and will make a decision by Friday Dec. 4.
Whites announcement follows
Democratic businessman Tom Schieffers withdrawal from the gubernatorial race Monday afternoon.
White has long prepared to run for the Senate seat that Hutchison originally planned to vacate this fall to concentrate on her bid against
Gov. Rick Perry in the March primary. But Hutchison is staying put in the Senate through the primary and it could be a year until a special election is held.
Whites Senate campaign had $4.2 million cash-on-hand as October began and aides said as recently as this month that White would not switch to the governors race and is running to work for Texans in the U.S. Senate.
A late October poll showed
musician Kinky Friedman leading the 
Democratic field with 19 percent ahead of Schieffers 10 percent but well behind the 55 percent who said they didnt have a choice.
Friedman was an independent candidate for governor in 2006 winning 12 percent of the vote.
Whites departure from the Senate race would leave
John Sharp a former state comptroller as the only Democrat running for Hutchisons seat.
Several Republicans are running.
