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  • Late Hits

    By Ross Ramsey

    We take you now to Runoff Land, where a handful of candidates are still smacking each other for a chance at their party's nomination. Full Story 

  • The Cure for Record Turnout

    By Ross Ramsey

    Early voting in the April runoff elections runs Monday through Friday of next week (that's March 31-April 4). The pickings are slim, and you're loopy if you think turnout will look like it did in the first week of March. Full Story 

  • A Fling or a Trend?

    By Ross Ramsey

    Texas Republicans have never had a primary like this one. They got a quarter of a million more voters to the polls this year than they did in the presidential primaries four years ago. Full Story 

  • The Big Wave

    By Ross Ramsey

    The early voting tsunami is great for political scientists, but it sure makes elected and wanna-be-elected officials nervous. It's big, but it's impossible right now to know who's voting and how, whether the voters are new, whether Republicans are voting in the Democratic primary, whatever. It's a big, fat question mark. For incumbents, that sort of uncertainty is maddening. Full Story 

  • Texas Voters: Both Primaries are Close

    By Ross Ramsey

    A week before the start of early voting in the March 4 party primaries, Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama in Texas by eight percentage points and John McCain leads Mike Huckabee here by four — a statistical tie — according to polling done for the Texas Credit Union League. Full Story 

  • Names, Trivia, and Money

    By Ross Ramsey

    The ballots are more or less complete, pending court actions and dirty tricks and all the usual stuff. And the annual courtship between the vampires and the blood banks — candidates and financiers — is well underway. Full Story 

  • A Three-Alarm Mess

    By Ross Ramsey

    A Harris County grand jury indicted Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife, Francisca Medina, on charges related to a fire at their home. Full Story 

  • The Annotated Ballot

    By Ross Ramsey

    Leave out the presidential contest and only a handful of the 173 statewide and legislative races on the Texas ballot are without incumbents. And they're all in the Texas House. Full Story 

  • Drastic Plastic

    By Ross Ramsey

    Add Dawnna Dukes to the list of Texas lawmakers misreporting credit card spending by their campaigns. And to the line of lawmakers going to the state to make amendments to their campaign finance reports and to try to get their fines lowered. Full Story 

  • Go!

    By Ross Ramsey

    Weatherford Mayor Joe Tison kicked off the first day of filing, saying he'll run in the GOP primary against Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford. And then the flood began. Full Story 

  • The Other Season to Greet

    By Ross Ramsey

    You think they decorate the malls too early? Here's our version: There are only 90 money-raising, commercial-running, attack-mailing, town hall-squabbling, sign-stealing, robo-calling, finger-pointing, voter-abusing days left until the Texas primary elections. Full Story 

  • Who Done It?

    By Ross Ramsey

    Six Fort Worth Republicans are asking for an investigation of automated phone calls they say might have swung the results of a special election earlier this month. Full Story 

  • Following the Money

    By Ross Ramsey

    Democrat Chris Bell is suing Republican Rick Perry and the Washington, D.C.-based Republican Governor's Association over the provenance of $1 million in campaign money in last year's gubernatorial election. Full Story 

  • Crash Test Dummies

    By Ross Ramsey

    Dan Barrett and Mark Shelton — a lawyer and a doctor, a Democrat and a Republican, an opponent and a supporter of the current Speaker of the House — will face each other in a runoff in HD-97 in a few weeks. The money is big, the stakes are big, and there's nothing else going on in state politics at the moment. It's a Petri dish full of what'll be happening in House races for the next 12 months. Full Story