Bill Clinton will be at the University of Houston tonight in the Hoffheinz Pavillion! It’s raining quite a bit today. So stayed tuned for some pictures and impressions from the rally. We will post later tonight.
“If she wins in Texas and Ohio, I think she’ll be the nominee,” Clinton told several hundred supporters during [...]
Voters can begin to start voting in Texas today ahead of the March 4 Primary date. Harris county has 35 polling locations that you can visit.
See the Early Voting schedule. The hours are from 8 to 4:30 pm until Feb. 22nd. See the detailed hours in the schedule.
Hillary and Obama are locked into a very close battle in Wisconsin according to recent polls released by the American Research Group and Research 2000.
ARG 49: Clinton 49 vs. Obama 43 , Feb. 15-16th (error +/-4%)
Research 2K: Clinton 42 Vs Obama 47 , Feb. 13-14th (error [...]
I attended a George Lopez stand-up show at Toyota Center last night. George was in classic form and his delivery was as good as ever. However, towards the tail-end of his routine he started to venture towards politics! As he noted Texas’ March 4th Primary he said and I will paraphrase here:
Latinos don’t understand [...]
Since the news media washed this out in under a day I thought it deserved some more attention! :)
State Democratic Chairman Brian Colon made the announcement after a marathon hand count of 17,000 provisional ballots that had to be given to voters on Feb. 5 because of long lines and a shortage of ballots. [...]
I read a lot of debate and arguments going on about the role of superdelegates and whether or not Florida or Michigan should be allowed to seat their delegates. I must say one argument that is being applied selectively is in favor of Obama. Obama supporters, indeed obama himself, and many liberal blogs says [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education takes note of a study that found that No Child Left Behind legislation directly contributes to high school dropout rates by making it advantageous for the schools to get rid of academically troubled students. Local KHOU has a report on this study as well.
The study, by researchers at Rice University [...]
I posted previously about the Obama campaign’s post-Potomac success and I cautioned that key states had yet to vote and we ought not to get ahead of the voters; especially considering that Hillary was polling well before Tsunami Tuesday. Well here are the new polls showing she is still maintaining her leads in OH [...]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates looking to toss out the incumbent, Texas Senator John Cornyn, debated tonight at UT-Austin. Our very own contributor, Roy, was in attendance at the UT-Austin Noriega debate to provide our first-hand coverage of the debate.
Stay tuned for our exclusive debate coverage.
Post-Potomac Update:
I previously broke out the numbers for the voter turn-out in the Primaries and promised to update it with caucus numbers. Well, MSNBC has done it for me.
Obama has a slight lead over Hillary in the overall popular vote. MSNBC breaks the numbers down for all the contests including caucuses.
I would note at [...]