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5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But in Dallas, ticket splitting Democrats handed incumbent Craig Watkins a bitter loss to a party-switching moderate, Judge Susan Hawk, while in Bexar County, Democrat Nico LaHood bought his way to victory with outlandish backing from a Corpus Christi trial lawyer, allowing LaHood to flood the local TV with commercials. [read post]
28 Sep 2013, 3:41 pm by Sandy Levinson
Mickey Edwards, in his book The Parties Versus the People:  How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans (Yale U. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
Ten states apply this rule to primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Vermont. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Florida recently announced they will close seven prisons and four work camps under a gubernatorial plan from Republican Rick Scott that's being tarred by Democrats and prison-guard unions as soft on crime and evidence of an "extreme Tea Party agenda. [read post]
15 May 2012, 10:54 am by Don Cruse
I haven’t written much about this year’s elections for the Texas Supreme Court. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 11:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While this blog has focused on bipartisan #cjreform planks in the Texas Republican and Democratic Party platforms (see a link roundup and discussion here), GOP SD 11 Chairman Scott Bowen published a column last week at Big Jolly Politics detailing bipartisan platform agreement across an array of issues.Texas Rs and Ds agree on a lot more than you think.RELATED: See also a column at BJP from Howie Katz, who comments at Grits under the pseudonym BarkGrowlBite,… [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 3:45 am
The Texas Secretary of State’s Office disagreed with Birnberg but couldn’t order the party to put Torry on the ballot. [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 8:00 am by JB
In 2020, Trump showed that it was possible to make inroads with minority voters, especially in the two crucial states of Texas and Florida. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 7:26 am
Bradford, narrowly lose the election to succeed his nemesis to Republican Pat Lykos.Robert Ryan and Jeffrey Dorrell, two Harris County grand jurors who bucked the DA's office to insist on indicting Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina for arson.Gerry Birnberg, chair of the Harris County Democratic Party whose candidates nearly swept Harris County judicial races and won their first countywide seats - including Sheriff - in many years.The prosecution team in the… [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
“Our Very Pronounced Theory of Equal Rights to All”: Race, Citizenship, and Populism in the South Texas Borderlands Gregg Cantrell explores Populism from a seldom-studied perspective, examining the People’s party’s efforts to win votes among the ethnic Mexicans of the south Texas borderlands. [read post]
27 Jul 2016, 9:29 am by Paul Stephan
By the end of the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton had become, by acclamation, her party’s official nominee. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 7:17 am by J. Gordon Hylton
The other 4% divided their donations between the two parties. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by John Dean
If Hillary is elected, and Democrats win control of Congress in the process, millions of th [read post]