Category Archives: Election 2004

I suppose it’s unfair to crime the Chron for its lame-o Election Central section, which has a now-empty primaries section but no index of endorsements or other useful goodies, without comparing it to the other papers. So I took a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Since I brought up the Chron’s extremely lackadaisical endorsement pace in the previous post, I may as well check in and see who they’ve supported so far. On Monday, in an editorial I can no longer find online (grrr), the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Apparently, a lot of Dallasites don’t know what Congressional district they’re in. Thanks to Texas congressional redistricting, Williamson Road in East Dallas’ Lakewood is the superhighway to confusion. From Mockingbird Lane, you can drive a mile down Williamson and cross … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Would you like to hear about some more bad electoral news for Tom DeLay? Yes, I think you would. Richard Morrison may live in Sugar Land like Tom DeLay, but they’re not in the same neighborhood politically. In the neighborhood … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Want to see Richard Morrison take on Tom DeLay in person? Check out this upcoming candidate forum in Clear Lake. The Clear Lake High School Debate Club will be hosting a Candidates Forum for the Congressional Race in District 22, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wouldn’t call this poll from CD32 good news for Martin Frost, but it’s not all bad. [Rep. Pete Sessions] leads his Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, 50 percent to 44 percent in their quest to represent Texas’ 32nd … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The title of this post is a play on the NRCC ads that have been hammering Nick Lampson lately. They’re your standard-issue attack ads: grainy images of the target, vague and voluminous accusation of one moral failing or another, an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chronicle finally realizes there’s less than four week to Election Day, and so they better get cracking on endorsements. (The Dallas Morning News has already made seventeen endorsements.) They get started by endorsing City Prop 1 while opposing City … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not quite at the thirteen million mark yet for Texas, though the data in this story is about two weeks old. Texas — one of 16 states with the deadline — expects the final figures will reveal a record number … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Katy Hubener will be in Austin tonight for a fundraiser. I’m just going to crib from Byron here: Help take back the Texas House! Do your part to meet a rising star in the Texas Democratic party: KATY HUBENER, Candidate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is hilarious: Tom DeLay was scheduled to be in Austin at 11 AM today for a fundraiser for his own campaign. Democrats were going to greet him with a protest outside the venue. Apparently, the thought of that so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The bad news: Today is the deadline to register to vote for the 2004 election in the state of Texas. If you are still unregistered, you pretty much need to haul ass to a County Clerk or Tax Assessor office, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The state of Texas has a lot more registered voters this year than in 2000. Nearly 700,000 Texans have registered to vote since early March, a surge driven by interest in the presidential race and hotly contested congressional races, officials … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rep. Max Sandlin picked up the endorsement of the Texas Farm Bureau, who had previously endorsed Rep. Chet Edwards but for whatever the reason declined to endorse Rep. Charlie Stenholm. Maybe they wanted to appear bipartisan, or maybe Stenholm’s opponent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Houston Bar Association poll this year heavily favors incumbent judges. Harris County lawyers overwhelmingly supported sitting judges over their challengers and tilted decisively toward Republicans in a poll released Friday by the Houston Bar Association. In one of only … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This weekend is your last chance to register to vote in the State of Texas for the 2004 election. I just got back from the HCDP Sharpstown location where we signed up about 20 people in the two hours I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We know (via Byron) that voter registrations are up sharply in Travis County. Now, via Lasso, we see that it’s way up in Bexar County, too. More than 62,000 Bexar County residents have registered to vote since January, boosting the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Getting worried, Tom? You should be. U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay plans to raise money for his re-election race Monday, just a few blocks from the courthouse where three associates were indicted last week on charges of illegally using … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Various Texas campaigns are focusing on the cuts in CHIP. U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards of Waco, a Democrat trying to win re-election in a Republican-majority district, charged his challenger the other day with depriving children of health insurance and shorting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you’re in the Houston area and are looking for some good political activities this weekend, there’s a veritable cornucopia from which to choose. There are five Kos Dozen parties on Friday and Saturday nights, with all of the Saturday … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’ve probably seen this NYT artlce about new voter registrations in swing states like Ohio and Florida, but in case you haven’t, you should read it. MyDD has a good discussion of it as well. Of course, as noted on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Remember that strong stench of desperation that emanated from the Orlando Sanchez campaign last year when he tried to link Bill White to Hezbollah? I’m getting a whiff of the same stuff from Louie Gohmert in CD01 now. Republican Louie … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How bad are things for the Illinois Republican Party these days? According to this Chicago Tribune poll, they’re really really really bad. Together, the surveys paint a portrait of a Republican Party so divided that it may have trouble fielding … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The deadline to register to vote in the 2004 election is October 4. If you’re not registered yet, what are you waiting for? If you live in Harris County, I urge you to check out HCVoter.net, the online resource for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some Congressional news and notes: Here’s a profile of the race for CD19 between Rep. Charlie Stenholm and Rep. Randy Neugebauer. Stenholm’s 17th District — which stretched from near the New Mexico border to the outskirts of Fort Worth — … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s an update on the race for SD106, featuring Katy Hubener and the multi-tasking wizardry of incumbent Ray Allen. (Have I mentioned that this is the kind of coverage of local races that I want to see more of in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One more pitch for the day: You’ve probably heard of the New Partnership for America’s Future (PDF), the new national campaign push by the Congressional Democrats to make their case for a majority (see also here). That makes this as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We’ve all been enjoying a little schadenfreude at the expense of Tom DeLay and his cronies, but it could mean so much more if the current unpleasantness surrounding him leads directly to his exit from the public stage. You know … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are good profiles from the last two Sunday Austin American-Statesman editions on the races in HD50 and HD48, which feature Mark Strama and Kelly White, respectively. Texas Tuesdays previously interviewed them here and here. Check them out, and consider … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some other news and notes from the campaigns: Check out Take Back Texas, which looks to be a clearinghouse on various state races of interest. They’ve got some good stories on several familiar Texas Tuesday names, and a good story … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s a nice endorsement for Martin Frost. Ed Smart is best-known as the father of kidnapped Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart, whom authorities found alive and safe after nine months in captivity. He’s also a Republican. But Mr. Smart traveled to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If I could add one thing to this anti-DeLay editorial in today’s Chron, it would be to note that one other side effect of his egregious redistricting scheme has put DeLay himself into a hotly contested race for the first … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Would you call the former CFO of Dell Computers an “anti-job growth, anti-business” activist? Mark Strama’s opponent did just that, after the Dell CFO and some other business leaders dared to endorse the Democratic challenger for State House District 50. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Star-Telegram has a brief overview of the five Congressional races which involve redistricted Democratic incumbents. No real new info, though it does nicely tie together current fundraising data plus the ratio of Democratic to Republican voters in each district. … Continue reading → Continue reading →