John Cornyn voted for the FISA bill, which runs rampant over our civil liberties. Rick Noriega would have voted against it.
Reason number 482 why Texas needs to put Rick Noriega in the Senate.
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Deep in the heart of ruby-red Texas, John Cornyn only leads by 4 points. The campaign hasn’t even started yet, and the incumbent is below 50% and Noriega is nipping at his heels. This race just moved into the top-tier.
Texas needs two senators who will back our veterans:
John Cornyn failed to stand up for our troops — I will
News Item 1: The boycott of DailyKos by Hillary Clinton supporters will be almost completely ineffective, for a number reasons. The first is that, well, there just aren’t very many Hillary supporters on the web. If you look at the demographics of primary voters from exit polls, you’ll see that the more highly [...]
I wrote earlier this week about the duplicity of republican candidates who claim the “pro-life” position and I made the argument that this was nothing more than a cheap trick to consolidate political power. Sure enough these old tricks are being redeployed over and over again in order to further their political power. [...]
Hillary and Obama have agreed to do two more debates.
The first one will be in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center (one of my classmates from Drexel actually worked on that engineering/architectural project back in the day) on April 16.
The second one is still pending but should be in North Carolina and hosted by [...]
The Texas Two Step election system for the Democratic Presidential Nomination has provided us with a very interesting experiment, whereby, we can actually compare and contrast results between primaries and caucuses from the same election in a staunchly republican voting state.
I have been puzzled by the dramatic difference between Texas’ primary and caucus results. To [...]
From a mailing list I’m on, another example of why the Texas two-step hybrid system is FUBAR:
6:00 pm Caucus-goers begin to arrive
7:00 pm Polling location closes, there is an estimated 1,000 voters still in line waiting to vote (eight precincts and three poll workers equals one really long wait)
1:00 am Last voter votes and polls [...]
Given the contentiousness of this issue I decided to highlight a fairly straightforward analysis that summarizes how Hillary or Obama could win the nomination.Let me just remind everyone, as well, that either way we are choosing from the greater of two greats! Here it is:
via the NYT:
Apparently governors of Michigan and Florida are willing to pony up the money for redo of their respective primary elections. Just today Yahoo News is reporting that DNC Chairman Howard Dean is ready to give them their way.
“All they have to do is come before us with rules that fit into what they agreed to [...]