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The latest 2010 elections news from The Texas Tribune.

  • The Hunted

    By Reeve Hamilton

    Republicans looking to grow their majority in the Texas House have set their sights on rural districts held by "WD-40s" — white Democrats over the age of 40, who hope their personal reputations will trump political considerations in what's shaping up to be a GOP year. Full Story 

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    Credit: Illustration by Todd Wiseman

  • On the Records: What's In the Words

    By Becca Aaronson

    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 

    Word cloud of Republican ads from Ads Infinitum blog.
    Credit: Wordle.net

  • Not-So-Spare Schedule

    By Elise Hu

    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 

  • Show Us the Money

    By Ross Ramsey and Matt Stiles

    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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  • Interactive: Ads Infinitum

    By Becca Aaronson and Matt Stiles

    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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  • Treemap: Visualize Texas Political Ads

    By Becca Aaronson

    Since November 2009, when the Tribune first opened its doors, the blog 'Ads Infinitum' has tracked significant political advertisements from the primary and general elections. As it turns out, we've covered more Republican advertisements than Democratic. We created a treemap data visualization so readers could easily sort the advertisements by five different categories: candidate/organization, political party, election, promotional/attack, distribution. Full Story 

  • The Weekly TribCast: Episode 49

    By Elise Hu

    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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  • Trash Tweeting

    By Reeve Hamilton

    From the governor's race to the bubbling battle for speaker of the Texas House, political campaigns and their staffs increasingly have to fend off social media attacks by unnamed tweeters who can’t be held accountable. Full Story 

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    Credit: Graphic by Todd Wiseman