Category Archives: Election 2004

Following up to this post, Rob Booth points me to the FEC search page, which has some more up-to-date info right now than Open Secrets does. A few highlights: From CD01, Max Sandlin has $727K on hand. No info as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Morning News has an unfortunately useless article about how the various Congressional candidates are doing in their fundraising for this year. It notes that there’s a lot of money being raised, and that three Dems – Max Sandlin, Nick … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A blog called Preemptive Karma claims to be getting “good vibes” for Chet Edwards and Martin Frost regarding poll numbers to be released early next week. I can’t vouch for any of this information, but I’ll be watching for any … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some yahoo is claiming that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee missed the deadline to file for the Democratic primary in January and is thus ineligible to be on the ballot in November. In a lawsuit filed this week, Houston businessman Tom … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A few notes from around the Congressional campaigns… Byron notes that Martin Frost outraised his opponent this quarter and is well on his way to meeting his overall fundraising goal. That’s good news, since we all know the campaign there … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You want evidence of ticket-splitting, here it is. LUBBOCK – Cotton farmer Don Langston has voted Republican for more than three decades, but this year his livelihood will steer his congressional vote. Mr. Langston is among West Texas Republicans who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The full 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned its preliminary ruling and declared Henry Cuellar the winner of the 28th CD Democratic primary over Rep. Ciro Rodriguez. The 5-2 ruling ends Rodriguez’s bid in state court to overturn the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Democrat Loranzo Sadun, aiming to oppose Mike McCaul as a write-in candidate in the 10th CD, has announced that his campaign has 500 verified signatures on their ballot access petition, which is enough to allow any write-in votes for him … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Major congrats to Byron LaMasters for getting credentials to cover the 2004 Democratic Convention as a blogger. I’m looking forward to reading your coverage, Byron. And bring a digicam, too – you never know who you’ll be able to get … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Local Voter, your one-stop shop for determining who your elected officials and upcoming ballot choices are, has a page of profiles of the speakers at te upcoming Democratic convention. A similar page for Republicans is in the works. Check it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I like this idea: Every Tuesday, Rep. Max Sandlin’s campaign blog is profiling a different county in the new CD01. This week’s feature is Angelina County. This allows Rep. Sandlin to highlight his connections to all of the communities that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And the next round in the Rodriguez-Cuellar recount fight goes to Cuellar. SAN ANTONIO – A state appeals court on Wednesday agreed to a new hearing to reconsider last week’s ruling in a voter fraud lawsuit brought by U.S. Rep. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nick Confessore asks Does anyone have good information on audience growth for the top political blogs? Are they still going up, or reaching a peak? Why don’t we take a look at their own stats? Here’s the last year for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I usually crosspost my stuff from the Political State Report here, but my entry today on the latest news and notes from the longstanding and increasingly bizarre recount fight in the 28th Congressional District is fairly lengthy, so I’ll just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dave McNeely pays a little attention to Richard Morrison in the Statesman. Morrison, who’ll turn 37 on July 4, also lives in Sugar Land. Before and since winning a contested primary, he’s campaigned all over the parts of four counties … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, well, well. The fight for the 28th CD Democratic nomination is not over yet. U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez was brought back from the brink of political extinction Wednesday when a 4th Court of Appeals’ panel overturned a lower court’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I see here that Mike McCaul, the Least Insane Republican Candidate from CD10, is hoping for a leadership position once he gets to Congress and finishes shining all of Tom DeLay’s shoes. WASHINGTON — While most congressional candidates remain focused … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Stakeholder highlights three Congressional candidates who recently got a bit of love from Roll Call‘s Stu Rothenberg. One of them is Lois Murphy, who was named today as the seventh member of the dKos 8. Be sure to marvel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Quite a few bloggers attended the state Democratic Convention this past weekend, and many of them have written up their experiences. There’s a lot of good stuff out there, so check out these links if you want to know what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In addition to the Blogger Caucus, I will be attending one convention-related activity this weekend, a party tonight for Richard Morrison. Look for me there if you attend. The Chron says that the state Dems are pinning their hopes on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Democrats arrive today for three days of fellowship and non-insane party platform construction. As noted before, I’ll be mostly limited to the blogger caucus tomorrow – and if you can, you really should try to make it – but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Vince Leibowitz of the Free State Standard is looking to raise a few bucks for Bill Bernstein, who’s running against Jeb Hensarling in the 5th CD. I have some mixed thoughts about this, so please bear with me while I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rep. Ciro Rodriguez is arguing his case before an appeals court in what is likely his last shot at overturning the recount results from the 28th CD Democratic primary in which challenger Henry Cuellar was declared the winner. During oral … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nice article by Farhad Manjoo in Salon on the BlogAds experience. He touches on all of the things that I think need to be said when discussing candidates buying ad space on blogs – bloggers and blog readers don’t like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kos, writing for The Gadflyer, argues that the recent special-election wins by Stephanie Herseth and Ben Chandler in reliably red districts is a portent that 2004 will be an abnormal election, one that may disproportinately favor Democratic Congressional candidates. He … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Morris Meyer campaign blog appears to be up and running. Note that by having an RSS feed, I discovered its activity sooner rather than later. Yes, I’m going to preach the RSS gospel until I’ve converted everyone. What’s the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Stakeholder has a report from a rally in South Dakota honoring their new Congressperson Stephanie Herseth, and a guest post from Rep. Herseth and many of the volunteers who helped get her into the House. Two down, eleven more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The next stage of the legal dispute between Rep. Ciro Rodriguez and Henry Cuellar over the primary result will take place on June 24. A three-judge panel of the 4th Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on June 24 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Earlier, in shilling for progressive bloggers in other states to adopt the Texas Tuesdays concept, I noted that Nick Confessore downplayed the impact of the “Contract with America” on the GOP sweep in 1994. The Bonassus (just added to my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congratulations to Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth for her victory in the South Dakota special election last night. Turned out to be a close race, meaning that loser Larry Diedrich’s weird statement about moral victories will either be taken as vindication or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How bad do you think you’re going to lose if you concede defeat before you begin? SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Republican congressional hopeful Larry Diedrich is effectively conceding defeat in today’s South Dakota special House election before the polling booths … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing his What They Need To Do To Win series, Greg Wythe lays it out for Rep. Martin Frost. Great stuff, and I hope after he’s done with the incumbents he’ll do the same for the other two Texas Tuesday-supported … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Checking around the Texas blogs for (mostly) political news and notes in our state: Greg will be looking at the electoral maps for each of the endangered Texas Democratic Congressional incumbents and from that he’ll project the outcomes they’ll need … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I may have mentioned this before, but a reminder never hurts: Richard Morrison will be on TV tonight in the Houston area (checking around, I see that this was originally scheduled for last week). Here are the details, via an … Continue reading → Continue reading →