Texas Primary

How a Democratic Candidate for Texas Governor Relates to the Town Hall Mobs

Rachel Farris | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics


Rachel Farris

Ambassador Tom Schieffer, you wannabe-Democratic-nominee-for-Governor of Texas, hoping to skim past the primary, you have friends who are "no tells-ies" of your own.

This Campaign Pulls Volunteer Into Politics

Jonah Lalas | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home


Jonah Lalas

It is early morning on August 28th at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. While thousands of delegates and enthusiastic supporters were rec...

Clinton Picks Up Momentum Post-Ohio And Texas

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

Monday's polls hinted at a Clinton comeback in Ohio and in Texas, which prepared us for what came yesterday night. Now, surveys are registering Clinto...

How Winning A Coin Toss Made Me An Obama Delegate

Deanie Mills | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Deanie Mills

Nobody knew what to do with half a delegate. Some conferring took place. They said we'd have to toss a coin -- the other delegate and me. Hillary or Barack? Heads or Tails? Oh Lord how I wish I were kidding.

A Night at the Texas Caucus: Hurry Up And Wait

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

It was a waiting room in Limbo, act three of Jean Paul Sartre play. Most the four hundred in the cafeteria had fallen into resignation, if not coma. ...

The Race Goes On -- And Gets Uglier

McClatchy/NBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"Now it could get ugly," McClatchy reports in its Tuesday night wrap-up. Hillary Clinton's victories in Ohio and Rhode Island aren't enough to turn t...

Thomas B. Edsall

Clinton's Coalition Reunites For Texas, Ohio Victories

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton owes her victories in Texas and Ohio to restored support from white men, who, in recent primaries, had been backing Barack Obama. Exi...

Sam Stein

Texas Polls: Obama And Clinton Maintain Demographic Groups

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Exit polls from Texas show Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton holding on to the demographic groups that have come to personify their campaigns. ...

Jason Linkins

Your (Slightly Less) Super Tuesday Liveblog

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Good evening and welcome to a liveblog of tonight's Kinda Super But Not Really Tuesday Primary in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont but especially Oh...

Clinton Campaign Sets Up Texas Primary Press Room: The Men's Bathroom

Wall Street Journal | Jackie Calmes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


It was immediately interpreted as something of a metaphor for the Clinton campaign's attitude to the press: With Sen. Hillary Clinton at Austin's conv...

The Obama Balloon Loses Air Over Texas

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

Before it ever happened, it's already over. That was the feeling last night at the small Obama rally in Houston less than twenty-four hours before th...

Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama Delegate Math Could Cloud Results

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


(Read the latest news from the Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island primaries.) Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton reached for the finish lin...

Texas And Ohio Primary: Who Do You Think Will Win?

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


What do YOU think is going to happen. Discuss in the comments. ...

Jason Linkins

Slate's Delegate Counting Widget Lets Readers Experience The Pointlessness Of The Democratic Primaries

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


For those of you who just can't get enough of the soul-crushing pointlessness of the 2008 Democratic Primary process, Slate offers this new widget: a ...

Texas, Ohio Primaries: Clinton and Obama Make Closing Arguments

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton tried to manage expectations for the series of make or break primaries she faces in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island Tuesday. "...

Hillary Clinton Faces Tuesday Primaries In "Happy-Warrior Mode"

NY Times | PATRICK HEALY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton does not look like a candidate who might drop out of the presidential race as early as Wednesday. In a weekend dash of...

Hillary Banks On Fear Mongering As Key To Tuesday Victories

The Swamp | Rick Pearson | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics


Democrat Hillary Clinton made it clear to reporters aboard her campaign plane today that in the final days of the Texas-Ohio delegate spectacular, her...

Clinton Supporter Attacks "Exceedingly Unfair" Texas Caucus System

CNN | Peter Hamby | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Former HUD secretary and Hillary Clinton supporter Henry Cisneros excoriated Texas' arcane electoral process as "a great burden on voters" and said th...

NAFTA Seen Differently in Ohio, Texas

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


LAREDO, Texas — If the shuttered factories that dot the Ohio landscape tell the story of NAFTA, so too do the miles of trucks carrying auto part...

Fatigue Hinders Obama Camp's Ground Game

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

The difference between the Clinton and Obama Texas ground games going into the Tuesday Two-Step is this: the Clinton field organizers don't know what...

Katrina Evacuees Could Impact Texas Primary Outcome

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Karen Dalton-Beninato

When Hillary Clinton skipped visiting Louisiana just before the primaries, she sent Bill to New Orleans instead. After losing the state, Clinton at...

An Unscripted Barack Obama Preaches Personal Responsibility In Texas

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

The press are checking email, reading Politico and stifling a yawn or two even though it is clear that Barack Obama has caught a live one in Beaumont,...

Hispanic Vote In Texas Still Up For Grabs

Politico | Gebe Martinez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


As both campaigns continue to work furiously in the run-up to the March 4 primary here, there are telling signs that the Hispanic vote, considered the...

Jason Linkins

Bill Clinton: Some Voters Are More Important Than Others

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


It's not like the vagaries of the Texas Primacaucus/Caucamary have been kept as a closely-guarded secret that's only being now unveiled to the unsuspe...

Ground Report: Clinton Campaign Aimless in Texas

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

"This is pretty much last minute," Hillary Clinton says to the room full of true believers in a union hall in Houston. "My good friend, your congress...