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LUBBOCK - Nate Sheets and Clayton Tucker share little common ground beyond the Texas roads under the trucks they've driven crisscrossing the state, trawling for votes.

Both men are fifth-generation Texans who grew up in the Hill Country, and they want to be the state's new agriculture commissioner.