Presidential candidates must be exhausted by now. For the first time in a long time they are slugging through a primary pollsters can’t predict.

And one in which Texas voters might actually matter.

“This is a very unusual presidential election,” said Nancy Sims, political analyst, Pierpoint Communications.

It’s unusual because neither Iowa nor New Hampshire revealed clear frontrunners in either party.

And even more interesting now is voter turnout.

“The voter turnout we have seen in the early elections is off the map,” Sims added. “It’s breaking records we haven’t seen since the 60s.”

Super Tuesday, next month, should hopefully narrow the field.

“There was a possibility that after Super Tuesday the numbers would be numbered down to one or two candidates,” explained Tracye McDaniel, Executive Vice President, Greater Houston Partnership. “We may have a presidential nomination by Super Tuesday. I don’t think that’s going to be the case anymore which makes it more important for Texas.”

Texans vote in the March primaries which might actually decide the final candidates.

Before that happens each of them will come to Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center for a town hall meeting on February 28^th.

The contenders are expected to lay out the energy policies they’d pursue as president.

It has been 28 years since Texans last helped decide a primary.

Unless things change, Texas is on track to do it again.