The Texas Blue: News
Witness the Weakness
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 1:41pm
John McCain only managed to scrape together $12 million in February.
More on Litigious Possibilities
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 12:04pm
If you would like to read the letter from TDP General Counsel Chad Dunn to the campaigns, you can see it here. I just spoke with Clinton's Texas spokesperson Adrienne Elrod, and she asserted that the main issue for the Clinton campaign is a question of seeing agreements in writing. "It is our standard operating procedure that anytime we enter into an agreement, we want to see that agreement in writing." I have requested a kick up the ladder to Guy Cecil, and we'll see what that yields. More to come.
Hagee Endorses McCain, Angers Donahue
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 12:03pm
Stop me if you've heard this one before: The head of the Catholic League, the televangelist pastor of Texas' largest mega-church and a Senator from Arizona walk into a bar...
Upon seeing yesterday's news about Catholic League head Bill Donahue's displeasure over Senator John McCain's buddy act with Cornerstone Church Pastor John Hagee, I don't think we're going to be seeing that scene anytime soon.
A Collection of Recent Polls
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 11:15am
Plenty of polling is going on in Texas, and we've collected some recent numbers for you after the jump.
News Roundup, 2/29/08: Last Days
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 10:19am
We have many things to cover and a long way to go between now and Tuesday, but some developing stories will stay with us for the duration.
A Hazy Shade of Potential Protracted Litigation Over Caucus Procedures
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 9:48am
This story about potential litigation against the Texas Democratic Party came out last night. The story essentially seems to be that Clinton campaign representatives have been asserting their right to challenge the caucus process and results, and the Obama campaign has said they are "keeping all options on the table. As a result, TDP General Counsel Chad Dunn wrote a letter to both campaigns cautioning against litigation, and both campaigns have said they don't plan to sue prior to the primary. This story is developing and we're working on it right now. More as we get it.
Clinton Takes to the Blogs
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 9:38am
Senator Hillary Clinton has taken to the august climes of the Huffington Post to write about child poverty. As blogging goes, it is pretty good. I do however think the media's sense of wonder that there's a whole 400 comments on the thread is adorable.
Statistics and You, Part 2
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 9:30am
The other day we told you that your chances of being on the FBI's terror watch list are about 1-in-300. We also learn the depressing factoid this week that your chances of being in prison are slightly more than 1-in-100. So, just to reiterate: you are three times more likely to be in jail than to be on the terror watch list.
Liveblogging Obama's Fort Worth Rally
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:40pm
9:30 PM - I think I'll leave the final thoughts retrospective for in the morning. Let it be enough tonight to say that both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are fierce machines that offer fast rides while national politics has cast eyes on Texas. I have started to think that no one really knows how March 4th will turn out, and that we may not know until March 5th (or possibly even March 6th) as it may be very close. But who knows for sure in these days of broken records and shifting worlds? What I do know, both implicitly and explicitly, is that A) we probably won't see the presidentials again after March 4th, and B) the landscape of Texas politics has been changed forever by these two campaigns swinging into town for awhile. What that means in the big picture largely depends on the newly motivated, the devoted supporters, and the devout Democrats both campaigns will leave behind.
Can It Get Any More Blatant?
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:02pm
The Republicans tell you that telecoms deserve immunity in the wiretap mess because they were protecting America from monolithic evil, etcetera and so forth. So watch as the Funhogs pout because telecoms aren't donating enough to the GOP in reciprocation for attempts at granting them immunity. I wish I could say I was joking, but alas I am not.