Common Sense

As I mentioned before, the 5th Circuit ruled against the Texas Republican Party yesterday, saying Tom DeLay must remain on the November ballot.
The indomitable Tina Benkiser (who totally freaks me out) is appealing to the Supreme Court. I’m not sure why. Even DeLay admitted on the witness stand that he could not be sure he […]

In the Forward Together PAC’s Mapchanger contest, and it wasn’t a Texas Democrat, sadly.

We Have a Winner

After an exciting few weeks the MapChangers contest has come to a close. More than 9,000 people voted over the course of the contest, casting 18,500 votes. In a very close third round and after hard-fought final day […]

I’ve stayed out of the Lieberman saga mostly because I assumed it would work itself out. It hasn’t.
Today, Joe Lieberman announced he will be gathering signatures to run as an independent if he loses the August 8th primary to Ned Lamont. The Bull Moose, my fellow Wacoan, has welcomed him to the independent fold. Excuse […]

You did a very good thing by voting in the Moving America Forward Mapchangers contest. Now you get to vote again! We’re unabashedly rubbing our freedom to vote in the terrorists’ faces. And before you ask, yes I’m still drunk. Go Team Texas!
Now as we start the final round, there are ten candidates from across […]

With just a few more votes we can have 3 Texans in the Top 5 of Gov. Mark Warner’s MapChanger contest. The top 10 all get $5,000 for their campaigns and the grand prize winner gets a fundraiser with Gov. Warner himself.
Go sign up and vote for John Courage, he’s just a few votes out […]

The Court ruled today that largely, the redrawn, gerrymandered Texas map of 2003 is okay. They even upheld mid-decade redistricting, which, to be honest I can kind of see. You’d have to read the Constitution pretty archaically to see a prohibition on states redistricting whenever they felt like it, especially if the current map were […]

I’m feeling bad, cut me some slack.
BOR has the June SUSA governor numbers and some commentary on the crosstabs:
1,200 Texas adults were interviewed 6/23/06 - 6/25/06. Of them, 1,007 were Registered Voters. Of them, 576 were judged to be “likely” voters. MoE ± 4.2%

Candidate
June
May
April

Rick Perry (R)
35%
(41%)
(39%)

Kinky Friedman (I)
21%
(16%)
(16%)

Chris Bell (D)
20%
(18%)
(15%)

Carole Strayhorn (I)
19%
(20%)
(25%)

Other
2%
(1%)
(3%)

Undecided
3%
(3%)
(3%)

Statistically, it’s a three-way […]

Dear Fellow Democrat,
As Chairman of our Party and the Democratic Nominee for Governor, we are writing you today to ask you to help our friend Glen Maxey.
Glen ran a spirited campaign for Chair of our party, and spurred a serious discussion about the future for Democrats in our state. We […]

We’re working on getting ActBlue to start working at the state level for some of the candidates in Texas. W’re not that far away from getting it done, we just need money!
From annatopia:
ever since we got back from the convention, several of us blogger types have been trying to figure out how to leverage what […]

Phillip from BOR took the time to write a thank you letter to the Texas Democratic Party for the great treatment we got at the Convention, and in general. All I had to do was sign it.
Amber Moon, Communications Director
Hector Nieto, Deputy Communications Director
Texas Democratic Party
707 Rio Grande Street
Austin, Texas 78701

Dear Amber and […]