White will face four opponents in the Democratic primary, and the winner of that contest will take on the victor of the Republican fight between Gov. Rick Perry, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and activist Debra Medina. [...] Democrats have made huge strides in Texas’ large urban counties in recent years. The main holdout has been Tarrant County, which has remained solidly blue. Is 2010 the year things change? Maybe not, but it ought to be an interesting electoral season anyway.
The death of longtime Tarrant County District [...]
Senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln has found herself right in the middle of the national debate over health care, and that’s a tough spot as she prepares to face Arkansas voters in 2010.
As she did in September, Lincoln trails four possible Republican [...]
A day after the Tejano Democrats and the Houston Black American Democrats issued a press release claiming Gene Locle's opponent lacked diversity in her hiring practices, bloggers disclose that her office is 71% minority and now the Houston Chronicle claims Gene Locke's lawyer firm lacked diversity in [...]
Former US Rep. Nick Lampson may be getting back in the game.
Former Congressman Nick Lampson, a moderate Democrat from southeast Texas, is considering a race for state comptroller, he confirmed this afternoon.
“It’s something that I’ve been asked to look at,” he said. “I don’t know that I will but [...]
GOP Recruits young, energetic, Tea Party candidate to take the SeatHouston Mayor Bill White hasn't even announced that he'll join the Democratic race for governor, but the Texas Republican Party isn't waiting.
The state party has launched the first negative solvo against a Democrat. The GOP hardly even bothered with Tom Schieffer when he was in the race, but it' [...]
Former Congressman Nick Lampson, a moderate Democrat from southeast Texas, is [...]
More Texas Democrats are coming forward today in praise of Obama's Afghanistan policy.
Rep. Chet Edwards of Waco's stance isn't far from that of many Republicans: a troop surge is good, an arbitrary deadline for withdrawal is not. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez of San Antonio, called the Obama plan a "strong, well-reasoned'" [...]
Democratic allies of President Barack Obama expressed fears that the U.S. is shouldering too much of the military [...]
1. In the parlance of Olympic diving, President Obama's speech at West Point had a significant "degree of difficulty": How to impress upon a nation, weary and wary of war, the importance of winning in Afghanistan? It would have helped him immensely if he'd actually used' [...]
I certainly agree that the Democratic statewide ticket would benefit from the presence of a qualified Latino candidate or two or three. Agreeing on that is the easy part. Finding someone who qualifies as qualified and who is actually willing to get into a race, especially if it means [...]
"I am making a prediction right now that the Republican Party will take both houses of Congress" -- Dick Morris
Rasmussen recently took a look at partisan trends. New numbers reflect similar polls which show Obama and the Democrats on the decline. Moreover, contrary to some mainstream media reports, the GOP is starting to see some movement in the Party's direction on party identification. 
Five public officeholders in Upshur County, Texas announced today at a Courthouse press conference, that they are formally switching their registrations to Republican. They will be running for reelections on the GOP ticket. 
