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March 2008 ArchivesHere's some top lines, we'll take a look inside the numbers next: Rosemary Lehmberg Mindy Montford Nothing like love blooming in a sprawling field of democracy. Dem consultant Harold Cook, who had too much time on his hands, found Democratic delegates lookin' for missed connections on craigslist.
Cook found ads for the Houston area and the Austin area. Here are some of my faves: As expected, Barack Obama cleaned up most of the delegates in the joint Senate district convention which included Travis and parts of Hays County. In District 14 (Watson) Obama won 67% of the delegates to Clinton's 33%. That's 311 state convention delegates to Clinton's 144. In District 25 (Wentworth), Obama won 63% of the delegates, which is 70 delegates to state to Clinton's 40 delegates to state. Check out district-by-district numbers at Burnt Orange Report. Their Google Docs spreadsheet is very handy. ...6:08pm: We must peace out in order to work on the news package for the 10pm newscast. So I'll end the liveblog part of this day and update on the numbers in fresh posts. Thanks for playin'! 6:05pm: This room looks so empty now that all the delegates are gone... but tabulation continues. The remaining folks still have to vote on various resolutions. There were at least 50 submitted from the precinct caucuses. 5:10pm: I'm off to catch a few more delegates for interviews and knock out a liveshot for the 6pm news. Will check back in about an hour. ...Additional restroom facilities (port-a-potties) have been brought in," announced Travis County Democratic Party Chair Chris Elliott. Oh, and the room just started doing the wave. Totally organic. It's gone around twice already! Man, this keeps getting better... one of the delegates just came up and made a plea for diapers for his baby. "If anyone has Huggies size 3 diapers, we sure could use them right now." Several altruistic fellow Dems actually had some, and brought them over. Now Democrat dad has a stash that will last him the whole day. >> Continue reading: Afternoon Update So, each of the seven thousand delegates here today made a presidential picks on a master list. We're waiting now to find out the breakdown of that list -- how many signed in for Clinton, how many signed in for Obama. This breakdown will determine the ratio of delegates awarded to each presidential candidate... which determines the statewide and then national delegate count.
About seven thousand people here at the combined county convention for Senate districts 14 and 25. Senate district 14 has the most delegates to the national convention of any district -- a whopping eight.
It's county convention day! I'll be at the Travis County Expo Center, home of the rodeo, in about an hour to post updates and photos throughout the day. Registration for delegates started at seven o'clock this morning, and these kinds of massive countywide/districtwide get-togethers are going on across the state. The convention I'll be blogging from is for precincts in State Senate districts 14 and 25 (Watson and Wentworth). My main man Matt Stiles is going to be blogging from the Senate district 15 convention in Houston (Whitmire). Send in any... Our intrepid web team at KVUE has posted raw video of parts of Craddick's deposition (see post below), but if you want to see the condensed version we put on TV, here's the 6pm video story. In this version you can watch the travel company owner, Phillip Marsteller, talk about the so-called "threatening" letter he received from Craddick and lobbyist Bill Messer. Since we didn't post all eighty minutes, I took a snapshot for you of an interesting moment we didn't post online. This is Craddick talking with his attorney, in the middl... The deposition of Tom Craddick lasts about eighty minutes, and all of it is riveting when you consider Craddick almost never sits down for extended "interviews" like that. Click on the picture to see raw video of the end of the deposition, where Craddick walks out before questioning is finished.
I am watching House Speaker Tom Craddick's deposition video from this morning, and it's a lot of "I don't know", "I don't remember", "I'm not advised" and "I have no idea's". Craddick was fidgety at first but overall appeared calm and at times even a little bored in the video. It lasts about 80 minutes, and lobbyist Bill Messer was deposed separately for another 90 minutes. His attorney, Dallas-based Tom Thomas, is a tiger! (If I am ever in trouble with the law, I am so calling this guy.) He snaps at plaintiff's attorney Kevin Buchanan several times, and instructs his client, Tom Craddick, not to a... Just a quick update, questioning of Craddick and Messer is complete in their fishing lawsuit depositions. Plaintiff's attorney Kevin Buchanan said the deposition lasted about ninety minutes. I'm told there was lots of asking Craddick to speak up (he tends to mumble sometimes) and Buchanan is admittedly a little hard of hearing. The transcript won't be available for another ten days or so, but I'll have details about the questioning this afternoon. ...House Speaker Tom Craddick and lobbyist Bill Messer are going under the oath right now in the lawsuit filed against them by a Dallas travel agent. (See the backstory and documents here.) The plaintiff's attorney, Kevin Buchanan, says it should go "pretty fast" so I'll update once I hear anything. A judge denied Craddick's earlier motion requesting that attorneys be prohibited from talking to the press, so we should definitely be hearing something. ...The two prosecutors facing off for Travis County DA met up for their only post-primary debate on the campus of UT last night. From what I can tell, it wasn't a snoozer. My colleague Melissa McGuire, who is on the night beat this week, included a lot of the barbs over public integrity in the video story here. (If you were there, share your thoughts! I am scared of UT Parking and Transportation Services so I generally stay away from any events that require parking at UT.) ...On the Clinton and Obama campaign planes, many of the seats usually filled by traveling press are now empty. As media companies slash budgets, several large newspapers have opted not to pay for their reporters to travel with the campaigns everyday. The topic is the feature of a NY Times piece today, which devotes a section to the decisions of my Belo-brethren at The Dallas Morning News. Among the newspapers that have chosen not to dispatch reporters to cover the two leading Democrati... Bet you couldn't wait for this one. Viral video vixen "Obama Girl" is back. Her new video features her own take on the 3am phone call commercial which started airing before the Texas primacaucus. One of the final shots of the video features Obama's brief dance on stage at the Austin Music Hall, after the Texas debate. Check it out and let us know what you think. They may have their differences on the best ways to reform the Travis County District Attorney's office, but competing candidates Mindy Montford and Rosemary Lehmberg share at least one thing in common - they both LOVE their dogs. Montford loves her dogs (a beagle and a mix) so much that both four-legged friends are featured in a TV ad, "Mindy Montford's Animal House".
Some signs of the fierce primary campaigning remain, but even signs for upcoming races are getting tossed if they're in the wrong place. The DMN's venerable political journalist Wayne Slater took some funny pictures of reporters on the presidential campaign trail, and he actually took one of my journalist crush, Newsweek's Richard Wolffe! Thanks, Wayne, for heeding the call and sending this in. All right, so Wolffe's eyes are closed... but I'm grateful nonetheless.
(In an earlier post featuring >> Continue reading: Thank You, Wayne Slater House Speaker Tom Craddick is set to go under oath on March 27th in a nearly-yearlong lawsuit, in which a Dallas travel company owner claims he was bullied by Craddick and lobbyist Bill Messer when he refused to give them their money back after a fishing trip that didn't happen. See my May 2007 story here. Craddick requested a judge to limit the time and scope of the deposition. A motion filed by his Dallas attorneys also requested that the attorneys involved be restricted from talking to the media about it, and that any videotape or other recor... The Mindy Montford campaign has phoned at least two Austin-area state lawmakers, to assure them that Montford isn't incahoots with Republican political consultant, Reb Wayne. Montford is in a Democratic runoff for Travis County DA with fellow prosecutor Rosemary Lehmberg. "I can confirm I got a call assuring me that Reb Wayne was not at her press conference," said State Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin. Strama is certainly familiar with the consultant in question. Wayne helped run two House races against Representative Strama. State Rep. Donna Howard's chief-of-staff says her office also... In this morning's Washington Post, find State Senator John Whitmire, D-Houston, co-authoring an op-ed suggesting "smarter" ways to address the country's overcrowded prisons: Our country has a million more prison beds today than it did just 20 years ago, yet the average time served behind bars has increased by only six months, to about three years. Holding inmates an extra six months costs a bundle, but greater reductions in recidivism may be achieved by the alternative treatment and sanctioning programs th... See item below regarding the Texas GOP calling for an investigation into illegal in-kind contributions to State Rep. Hubert Vo, D-Houston, from Lot 8, the boutique owned by Project Runway winner Chloe Dao. "Hubert Vo paid for the event in question. No in-kind contribution was made, none was reported, and our campaign report is true and accurate. We look forward to the Republicans' apology for wasting taxpayer resources with this frivolous complaint once it has been dismissed." -- Karen Loper, Vo campaign manager ...
Texas politics and history buffs unite! The LBJ School's new Center for Politics and Governance is hosting the authors of Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas on the UT campus. Authors Jim Henderson and Dave McNeely will be joined by former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby, former Speaker of the Texas House Gibson "Gib" Lewis and State Senator Rodney Ellis. They're gonna talk all things Bob Bullock. After the panel, join them for some cookies and other refreshments. Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 6:30 p.m. Say what you want about whether endorsements matter, but both candidates in the race for Travis County DA race have racked them up. Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton came out for Mindy Montford today. "Ms. Montford is one of the toughest prosecutors you'll ever meet in a courtroom. As our District Attorney, Ms. Montford will be fair and impartial in the administration of justice throughout Travis County," he said in a statement. It's tough to keep up with all the new endorsements trickling out so here's a rundown of each candidate's featured supporters, from their respective websites. State Representative Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, led a presser this morning to speak out against a proposed landfill in Eastern Travis County, near the Village of Webberville. She linked the proposal for the landfill with an all-but-scuttled film and music studio complex in the same area. Here's Dukes: "Why is it okay to put something in a community that a community opposes, but to oppose something that is positive like the Villa Muse development?" City councilmembers who rejected the developers request to be released from Austin's extra-territorial jurisdiction (say that three times fast) say one thing... Earlier today, the Texas Democratic Party denied a request by the Clinton campaign to have the state party verify all one million caucusgoers and postpone the county conventions as a result. "It is not appropriate, nor is it lawful, for the TDP staff to review these signatures and disqualify persons and/or re-calculate results. The Texas Election Code 174.025(c) requires the precinct chair to determine the eligibility of participants. There is no statute, rule or directive that authorizes the TDP to comply with your request... With regard to your campaign's request to push back the upcoming March 2... The Texas Democratic Party denied a request by Hillary Clinton's Texas campaign to postpone the county conventions set for March 29th. The delegates from the caucuses won't be certified until those county conventions, but the Clinton camp sought a delay, in order to verify the one million plus caucusgoers. The campaign says it has received more than 2,000 complaints of irregularities, and that it doesn't want ineligble voters to be counted. "We're saying to the party, before we have the county conventions, we need to make absolutely certain that we protect the integrity of the process," said Clinton Texas C... Another day, another endorsement in the runoff race for Travis County District Attorney. It looks like former DA candidate Rick Reed will announce his support for Mindy Montford later this afternoon. Reed worked for Travis County DA's office before abruptly quitting his job during the four-way primary race. Last week, another former candidate, Gary Cobb, announced his support for Rosemary Lehmberg. That started a small flap concerning what was promised in exchange for Cobb's endorsement. Cobb says he was promised nothing from Lehmberg,... "Todd", the addressee of the emails I receive from the Obama campaign, just got a new call for help. The county conventions, the next step of the three-step delegate selection process, are March 29th. As we saw in Iowa over the weekend, delegates selected from the precinct conventions can change their candidate, and one campaign could squeeze out another delegate or two out of Texas if their peeps show up. Both campaigns are now working to make sure their delegates get to the conventions. Part of the note to ... Congressman Lloyd Doggett is not happy about the House's decision to go into a rare closed session to debate the FISA bill. He called it "mysterious hocus pocus". Here's an excerpt of his remarks: Recent proceedings in this House served one and only one valuable public purpose--hopefully, this totally unproductive exercise will ensure that the Democratic Leadership will never again yield to demands that the public business of this people's House be conducted in secret. A little back-and-forth today after the primary's third place finisher, Gary Cobb, threw his support behind Rosemary Lehmberg in the Travis County DA race. Mindy Montford says she's "troubled" by Cobb's endorsement in the April 8th DA runoff. She questions why he's really supporting Lehmberg, because she says Cobb wanted a top position in the DA's office in return for his support. "I was asked once, twice, three times whether I was going to make [Cobb] First Assistant, and by law, I can't make that promise. There is a law that says you cannot accept someone's support or offer in exchange for the pro...
I failed to post this earlier in the day but veteran prosecutor Gary Cobb told me he will be announcing his endorsement of Rosemary Lehmberg in the runoff race for Travis County District Attorney in the morning. When we talked Wednesday afternoon, he said it was "likely" but not official until the presser at 10:30 Thursday morning. Cobb finished third in four-way race for Travis County District Attorney last week. ...We are used to them now. The ten minute long impassioned rants, straight into the camera, punctuated only by a few camera turns. "Special comments" by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann came into being in 2006, and he has said his bosses let him keep doing them because they seem to draw ratings, even though they are dripping with pointed (and sometimes poetic) criticism of our nation's most powerful leaders. These special comments are almost always directed at Republican leaders -- President George Bush is Olbermann's favorite target... I am on the "night beat" this week, which is the branding we give to our 10pm newscast. I am filling in for a reporter who's gone to our sister station in Houston, KHOU-TV. That means I may wander into the general assignments world this week, covering anything from a brush fire to the SXSW music festival. Anyway, the temporary GA shift coupled with my ongoing post-primary blues explains my lack of frequent posting. I will try to get my mojo back soon. Just after I stare at the wall some more, and spend a little more time contemplating throwing myself off something tall. (Don't do it, kids.) ...House Speaker Tom Craddick's spokesperson Alexis DeLee just called with a statement regarding the Speaker and lobbyist Bill Messer's motion to keep their upcoming depositions a.) out of public view; b.) limited to one hour; c.) limited in scope (they want the Plaintiff's attorney to be restricted from asking any questions that have to do with politics.) "This is a routine filing, and in this case it keeps the depositions focused on the facts of the case, and prevents any kind of political fishing expedition for partisan purposes," DeLee said. "Fishing" expedition. Was that pun intended? ...The week before the 2007 session ended, House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Republican power-lobbyist Bill Messer were sued by a Dallas travel company owner, who claimed the Speaker abused his power in trying to get his money back over a fishing trip that Craddick and Messer couldn't reschedule. See my May 2007 story here. In a letter signed "Speaker Tom Craddick", Craddick and Messer wrote: "There are clearly exceptional circumstances, and therefore we... Does anyone know what this Todd Gallaher looks like? A veteran Capitol staffer resigned Monday over allegations he impersonated both a state representative and a newspaper reporter in the last month - first to sway a state primary race, then to glean information on an ethics complaint against his boss.Here's the full Morning News story.... Everything seems to be eclipsed today by the wait for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's troubles, but Mississippi is voting, and the Texans for Obama group will be at Scholz's for another watch party tonight. WHEN: WHERE: As a special bonus, these folks will be having informal delegate training for people who are attending the county/state conventions. County conventions are set for March 29th. ...
I was feeling nostalgia for the canceled Fox comedy, Arrested Development , after the news about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer broke. Remember the character J. Walter Weatherman? He's the guy George Bluth always hired to teach the kids a lesson. He would "lose" his... The campaign staffers have almost all left Texas now, headed to rest up or keep competing in this Democratic nomination contest that is feeling more like the reality show, Survivor. "Eleven remaining states... Guam... only ONE survivor!" My KVUE colleagues helped cover a good chunk of this race, so my pictures below only represent a fraction of the Texas presidential primacaucus madness we saw once both campaigns descended upon us. A look back... in pictures. Barack Obama won the Wyoming caucuses tonight by a 61% to 38% margin. Turnout busted all records... with an unofficial total of 8,690 votes cast today. I guess it's because Texas is so large and populous that I keep snickering when I watch reporters in Wyoming speak breathlessly about the massive turnout. I mean, 8,690. That's roughly the size of two healthy Harris County caucuses. Or the number of walking across ... I wandered on to HuffPost this morning as usual, to peruse the page for news, and look who I found! Jennifer Kim, who I've gotten mistaken for a few times, even though we don't look much alike. Kim is an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter, and in this video she and other supporters talk about how they want to see the contest between the two Democratic candidates continue. It looks like this was shot Monday night outside Clinton's Austin rally. Anyone have at least $2,500? You can buy yourself a copy of Barack Obama's victory speech, delivered on the night he won the Iowa Caucuses. "Washington DC's Edmund Burke School is auctioning the original copy of Barack Obama's Jan. 3rd Iowa Speech, given when the candidate's surge in the caucuses kicked off a national frenzy," according to a release from the school's PR people. You can make a bid right here. Which one WAS the Iowa speech, you might be asking. Well it's not the "Yes we can" speech. "Yes we can" was del... Weird. Someone at my station must have signed me up for emails from Barack Obama, because a missive from Obama just landed in my inbox. For whatever reason, the email was addressed to someone named "Todd". Who is this Todd guy? Anyway, Obama is sharing with supporters his record breaking $55 million take in February: No campaign has ever raised this much in a single month in the history of presidential primaries. But more important than the total is how we did it -- more than 90% of donations were $100 or les... I am going to make a little picture collage of the seven Texas House Reps who won't be returning next session, after being defeated in Tuesday's party primaries. In fact, I was going to make the collage last night and actually started to, but my primary post-partum was too strong to overcome. The retiring class of the Texas Primaries 2008: State Rep Kevin Bailey, D-Houston (pro-Craddick) State Rep Pat Haggerty, R-El Paso (anti-Craddick) Now, just to be clear, I'm not talking about an alcohol-induced hangover, because this is a family blog. But I am feeling a sense of sadness and lack of motivation now that the madness (whoa, I rhymed) is over. Things happened so fast and furiously for the last three weeks; and poof, it's gone. Anyone else falling into the same malaise? Sure, we can be excited about the fact that this Democratic nominating contest continues; which means we have much intrigue ahead of us. But the questions here in Texas have largely been answered*, and I won't be >> Continue reading: Post Primary Hangover? Precisely many delegates will be awarded to each candidate from last night's caucuses won't be known for good until the Democratic state convention in June. But in the meantime, here's the TDP's look at who's in the lead in each state senate district. ...The AP and the cable networks called it before midnight, but since the urban areas still weren't in and the AP had to un-call Missouri on Super Tuesday, I didn't want to go with it just yet. But it looks like Clinton has a comfortable four point lead on Obama now, with 85% of the precincts reporting. She doesn't catch up to Obama in the delegate count, in fact, they pretty much evenly split the Texas delegates. But she does pick up a lot of momentum, as the press declares these big wins as a "revival" or a "comeback". It's a testament to how successfully the Clinton campaign moved the goal post, be... Well, about a half of the state's precincts are in and this race is still basically tied. Senator Clinton makes a great speech tonight, victorious in Ohio by a wide margin. In his remarks down here in San Antone, Senator Obama gives us a mathematical truth: We'll wake up tomorrow morning with Obama holding about the same delegate lead that we woke up to this morning. We'll also wake up to a lot of complaints and confusion about tonight's caucuses, which I'm sure we'll cover throughout the rest of the week. ...10:55pm: And the crowd files out, hurrying home to watch a few more hours of election returns. The night is still young. 10:53pm: Obama still talkin'... no, he's done now. It strikes me that he is always much better, a lot more inspiring as a speaker after big victories. With the uncertainty (and some losses) tonight... he doesn't seem as good. 10:40pm: Obama takes the stage, congratulating Clinton on her wins in Ohio and Rhode Island but making clear he still has the same delegate lead as he did when this election day began. >> Continue reading: Liveblogging from the Obama Party Basement If you aren't out at a crowded caucus right now, why not keep an eye on the returns online. I'm looking at returns complete with a county-by-county breakdown at the NYTimes politics page, which has been great throughout this nomination process. Click here to check it out. The Texas Secretary of State's office obviously handles elections for the state, so it may post faster than the Times. Check that out right here. Oh, and we can't forget the boys and gir... I caught two of the Obama campaign's Texas press secretaries in front of a TV down in the filing center, watching Wolf Blitzer. When Democratic political analyst Paul Begala said something about how this nomination battle is all about math now, Adora and Nick flashed half smiles at each other, knowing that they just heard their campaign's argument come out of the mouth of Begala.
CNN's Texas exit polling shows this: African-Americans: Obama 83%, Clinton 16% These numbers are consistent with our polling from the last week. But in Texas, the Latino population outnumbers the African American population two, sometimes three to one, depending on the Senate district. So, while there are MORE African Americans who support Obama than there are Latinos who support Hillary, what percentage of tonight's electorate will these two groups actually represent? If Hispanic turnout... Exit poll data is coming in, and the liveshots on these here risers are all going on at once. Here's a look at a few moments after broadcasters wrapped up their 5pm shots on the riser adjacent to us. There are actually two sets of these multi-tiered risers out here tonight.
We arrived in San Antonio, where Senator Barack Obama will be appearing tonight after polls close. As soon as we got here, we got kicked out of the perimeter, so this is pretty much all I got to see of the space where the press will be spending the evening.
Obama will be speaking outside the Municipal Auditorium, which you can see here: >> Continue reading: The Scene from San Antonio My first election day as a reporter was 2002. I covered the US Senate race between Jim Talent and Jean Carnahan in Missouri (Talent won, but wound up being defeated by Claire McCaskill in 2006). During that cycle I even traveled back home to Texas to do a story about Dallas GOP media guru Scott Howell, whose clients wound up winning every race he worked on that year. Wound up seeing Howell again on election night, at Jim Talent's crowded, sweaty victory party in St. Louis. I'll never forget the sight of a drunken U.S. Senator Kit Bond standing outside smoking a cigar in the middle of the night. Thi...
WHAT? Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson isn't wearing his lucky Cosby sweater today for primary day in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. He usually wears this thing on big election nights. "The sweater is not on because I do not think I need it," he said while spinning on MSNBC. "I can think of [another] reason ... 9:13pm: We end with the ready-to-answer-the-phone-at-3-am line and the crowd cheers madly. The acoustics in this room, again, are AWESOME. I felt like that speech was the perfect length. And we're out. Tune in for a historic (and crazy) day tomorrow. 9:12pm: "Nobody's vote is more important than anyone elses, assuming we count them all, which is what we're gonna do," she says with a grin. I THINK this is a reference to her push to have the Florida and Michigan delegates seated, even though Obama's name didn't even appear on the Michigan ballot because all the candidates agr... It's GOTV time. The race is still just as tight as it has been all week. Clinton is up 46% to 45%, still a statistical dead heat. "Texas is a must-win for Clinton," writes pollster David Ianelli of Public Strategies. "She not only needs to win here to turn the tide after several consecutive losses, she needs to win convincingly to cut into Obama's national lead in delegates." Changes within geographic regions say a lot more about what's happening here.
This new Hillary Clinton ad running in Texas hits Obama on whether he's ready to be president. Calls him out for not holding any hearings as the chair of a Senate subcommittee. Says HRC will "never be too busy to defend our national security". Meanwhile, I'm hearing that K... Last week I chronicled some problems I was having with getting the Clinton campaign not calling me back... ever. After my problems were publicized on Daily Kos, I found a reliable Clinton campaign contact who almost always picks up his phone. Now, it's another press member who's getting stood up. Jay Root from the Fort Worth Star Telegram was told he could get a phone interview with Hillary Clinton, but each time the call was suppo... It's night five of the Belo Texas tracking poll, and the race is still within the margin of error, as it has been all week. It's now tied up, 46% Obama, 46% Clinton. Pollsters say the race will be decided on the strength of turnout by Blacks and Hispanics, whose loyalties are divided. "Taking a look at the largest voting blocks where the candidates had their biggest respective leads, we confi... Senator Barack Obama will be in San Antonio on election night, but the location is TBA. No word on where Senator Hillary Clinton will be just yet, but we should know soon. ...In the epic back-and-forth also known as the HD46 primary battle, the Texas Ethics Commission has dropped the complaint leveled by a State Rep. Dawnna Dukes supporter against challenger Brian Thompson. The complaint claimed Thompson did not clearly state his ads were political ads and who paid for them, even though his commercials ended with a message saying "political advertisement paid for by the Brian Thompson campaign". "The evidence submitted with the complaint on its face shows no violation," the letter from the Commission said. If you haven't been following, there were other skirmis... Women's rights activist Gloria Steinem is joining former Rock the Vote head Jehmu Greene and actress Amber Tamblyn at Momo's tonight to kick off the Texas leg of a "One of a Million" for Hillary tour. That's this afternoon at Momo's, the bar/club above Katz's. 4:30pm "The eyes of the world are on Texas," said Gloria Steinem. "Hillary Clinton not only represents the needs and hopes of most women, men and children in this country, but her presidency would free the leadership talent of its women and girls." ...Friday's results from Belo's Texas tracking poll show the Democratic race still deadlocked. Hillary Clinton wins back her one point lead on Friday, now up on Barack Obama 46% to 45%. Results from all four nights of tracking have been within the 4 point margin of error. Pollster David Ianelli: The seesaw battle for a one point lead over the past couple of days underscores the critical importance for both campaigns of mobilizing their supporters and getting people out to the polls next Tuesday. One thing is clear however -- Hillary Clinton will not come out of the Texas primary with the share of T... After getting off work, I had a decision to make. Jamba Juice and go home... or early vote? Because parking was unavailable near the Jamba Juice, I ventured to the early voting location at South Congress and Oltorf and found this line:
This is pretty much the scene across Travis County. After 12 days of early voting, 115,316 ballots were cast, including mail-in ballots. ... |
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Elise Hu is KVUE's Political Reporter and your dedicated blogger. There's too much politics in Texas to fit into a newscast, so the fun continues here. Email your ideas and feedback to ehu@kvue.com.
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