This area is designated for postings on the 2010 Texas elections including the primaries. It will cover all facets of the elections from the gubernatorial race to down ballot races.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White was in San Antonio today, stopping by the Fourth of July celebration at Woodlawn Lake. White had hoped to speak but the Parks Foundation apparently was unable to accommodate the request. Regardless, White spent time meeting with supporters and enjoying the family atmosphere at the park. White has been crossing the [...]
Looking back on the Texas Democratic Party’s State Convention it turned out to be a pretty decent convention, even with the battle over the Two-Step. The mood of Democrats at the convention was optimistic with Mayor Bill White and buoyed by the recent PPP poll showing the governor’s race in a dead heat at 43% [...]
Today is the beginning of the biennial convention for Texas Democrats. We’re all gathered here in Corpus Christi for what should be a less contentious convention compared with the one two years ago in Austin. That year Obama and Clinton were battling for the treasure trove of delegates sent from Texas to the national convention. [...]
Yesterday the Express-News ran an article about some of the issues facing the Bexar County Democratic Party and its new chairman, Dan Ramos. The story yesterday focused on Ramos’ hiring of a political consultant, Gina Casteñada, to help run the Coordinated Campaign for the county. For those who might be wondering a coordinated campaign is [...]
Last night Texas finished the first part of its primary process and answered the question of whether Gov. Rick Perry would be facing Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in a run-off. The biggest factor in that equation was how much effect Debra Medina would have on the race. Well, Texas Republicans (and a few Democrats) answered [...]
Tomorrow is the election day for the Texas primaries with polling places open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. across San Antonio. If you haven’t already voted during Early Voting it is important you take the time to vote at your polling place in your respective primary. If you’re not sure of your polling place [...]
On Tuesday we come into the home stretch of what has been an interesting primary season in Texas. What typically is a sort of anointing of a chosen candidate at least turned into a horse race on the Republican side between Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Kay Baily Hutchison, and Debra Medina. Hutchison made it competitive [...]
Sunday I examined the Texas governor’s primaries on both the Republican and Democratic side. Based on the latest polls and some very bizarre episodes about 9/11 it is becoming pretty apparent we will have a Rick Perry/Bill White showdown for the general election in November. While Perry is not completely out of the woods just [...]
Early voting for the 2010 primaries starts Tuesday, February 16th and runs through Friday, February 26th with the general election Tuesday, March 2nd. While some like to wait to vote on the general election day I always encourage people to take advantage of early voting. First of all, you never know what might happen on [...]
We’ve all heard the phrase about Texas weather, “if you don’t like it now, just wait a little bit and it’ll change.” This primary season the same can be said about Texas politics. What usually is a pretty bland part of the Texas election cycle has been anything but this year. Starting with the governor’s [...]
This is the second in a series of posts about the 2010 Texas elections that started with a look at the Democrats. In this posting I dig into the Republican side of the Texas gubernatorial ticket which is pitting incumbent Gov. Rick Perry against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and conservative Debra Medina. It’s becoming a [...]
As we close out 2009 and get ready to enter the 2010 state election cycle I thought it would be good to provide my readers with my perspective of some of the statewide races starting with the governor’s race, one that will most likely provide fireworks even as far back as the primaries. This will [...]
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