Ads Infinitum: Francisco Canseco's "Clinging to Power"
The latest ad from the Francisco "Quico" Canseco campaign pummels U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San Antonio, over higher taxes and the national debt. Full Story
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2010: Perry Provided "Political Schedule" By Mistake
Texans weren't supposed to see Gov. Rick Perry's Sept. 15 schedule after all. The governor's office says it mistakenly released the governor's "political schedule" — as opposed to his schedule of official state business — to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White's campaign. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Oct. 7, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: Perry 53, White 42
Rick Perry leads Bill White by 11 percentage points in the governor's race, according to the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports. Full Story
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On the Records: What's In the Words
Since you probably don’t have time to look through 70-some campaign ad transcripts, we converted them into word clouds to help visualize the rhetoric of each political party. The word clouds compare the 100 most-used words by Republicans to the 100 most-used words by Democrats. The font size of each word is relative to its frequency of use. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Ciro Rodriguez's "We Cannot Afford Quico"
The latest ad from U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San Antonio, attacks his Republican opponent's past business dealings. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Chet Edwards' "Agree"
A new ad from U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, goes after Republican Bill Flores' plan to privatize VA health care. Full Story
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Not-So-Spare Schedule
Gov. Rick Perry apparently keeps a more detailed schedule than what his office has previously released to the public. In what might have been a mistake, a more detailed version came out in response to an open records request from Democrat Bill White’s campaign. Full Story
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The Brief: Oct. 7, 2010
The plot's still thickening in the incident on Falcon Lake. Full Story
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Interactive: Ads Infinitum
Since The Texas Tribune launched in November 2009, the Ads Infinitum blog has collected and posted political advertisements — more than 70 in all — from candidates in both parties running for various offices during the primary and general election campaigns. We recently went back and collected data on all the ads we've posted and created a treemap data visualization so readers could sort them across categories. Transcripts of the ads and the videos themselves are also available via an interactive table. View the treemap and a video tutorial on how to use it. Full Story
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Data Explainer: Campaign Ad Treemap
How to use our latest interactive. Full Story
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Show Us the Money
With a month to go before Election Day, challengers in fifteen House races outraised incumbents during the most recent reporting period, according to the most recent filings with the Texas Ethics Commission. In eight of those races, the challengers led in combined spending and saving, a rough measure of each campaign's financial strength. Full Story
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Clay Boatright: The TT Interview
The new president of the Arc of Texas on why the disability community’s rallying cry to close state-supported living centers has become trite and ineffective, why the movement's messaging should be upgraded (employing everything from the iPad to the Bible) and why businesses and faith-based groups should be mobilized to fill the gaping holes in government services. Full Story
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The Weekly TribCast: Episode 49
In this week's skirmish, topics include campaign cash, the latest polls in the governor's race, the hotbed of Texas House activity in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the consequences of the budget crisis. Full Story
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TribBlog: More Waiting for Willingham
Navarro County prosecutor R. Lowell Thompson's request that Judge Charlie Baird recuse himself from the Cameron Todd Willingham court of inquiry hearing wasn't decided today. Full Story
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TribBlog: Search for a Body on Falcon Lake
The office of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has offered to help Mexican authorities in the search for a U.S. man officials say was shot and killed on Falcon Lake in South Texas. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Bill Flores' "Loyalty"
The latest ad from the Bill Flores campaign links difficult economic times to U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards' support of Nancy Pelosi. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Oct. 6, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: Perry 48, White 43
Republican Gov. Rick Perry leads Democratic challenger Bill White by 5 percent in a new poll. Full Story
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The Brief: Oct. 6, 2010
Controversy could thwart Cameron Todd Willingham's day back in court. Full Story
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