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Reeve Hamilton has interned at both The Nation and The Texas Observer, for which he covered the 2009 legislative session. Most recently, he has been a desk assistant at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. A Houston native, he has a B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University.

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Chet Edwards on Health Care Bill

by Reeve Hamilton  |  10 seconds ago

U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, on why he is opposing federal healthcare legislation.

"The Texas of Today is the U.S. of Tomorrow"

by Reeve Hamilton  |  3/11/2010  |  1

That's what former state demographer Steve Murdock says about the dramatic population shifts happening throughout the state and the country — and why they matter.

Census and Sensibility

by Reeve Hamilton  |  3/10/2010

"You want a good count both because you want to have your representation and because you want to get the resources your community needs," says demographer Steve Murdock.

Weak Tea?

by Reeve Hamilton  |  3/3/2010

Candidates favored by the Tea Party movement did not fare well on primary night, but they had an effect on several races.

The Straight Story

by Reeve Hamilton  |  3/2/2010

One distinguishing feature of primary night is the absence of straight-ticket voting, which is why certain races that seem winnable now simply aren't in the fall. Take Collin County, where straight-ticket ballots favored R's over D's on Election Day 2008 at a rate of 66 to 33 percent. A Democrat “has literally got to be Jesus Christ running against Judas or he loses,” an analyst says.

In Closing: The Big Five

by Brandi Grissom, Reeve Hamilton, Emily Ramshaw, Abby Rapoport and Matt Stiles  |  3/1/2010

Whether or not the outcome of tomorrow's gubernatorial primary is conclusive — whether or not we have a runoff six weeks hence — we can say this with certainty: One of the five main candidates on the ballot will be the next governor of Texas. And this: 40 hours from now, we'll know much more about the state's coming political landscape than we do today. While we bide our time and wait for results, we present these final snapshots of the campaigns as they wound down.

In Closing: Rick Perry

by Reeve Hamilton  |  3/1/2010  |  1

“I treat every campaign seriously,” he says. “Nobody’s gonna outwork me. Nobody can put in more hours and go more places and do more things than I do.”

Primary Color: Agriculture Commissioner

by Reeve Hamilton  |  2/26/2010

Will the Democrats choose the most serious guy in the race, a rancher with hands-on experience? Or the consummate promoter — someone who'll sell Texas goods to America and the world with gusto and bravado, the way he sells his cigars, salsa, music, and one-liners?

Primary Color: The Final Five

by Reeve Hamilton, Ross Ramsey, Brian Thevenot, Julian Aguilar and Andrew Kreighbaum  |  2/26/2010

This is the final day of early voting — a period in which many more energized and engaged Texans cast ballots for their favorite candidates than their counterparts did in 2006. During the last two weeks, we've published fifteen installments in our Primary Color series, analyzing the marquee contested party primaries for Texas House and Senate seats, for Congressional seats, and for slots on the State Board of Education and the Texas Supreme Court. Today we present the last five of our stories. Brian Thevenot reports on the face-off between very different GOP insiders to take on state Rep. Diana Maldonado, D-Round Rock, in House District 52. Julian Aguilar looks at the ideological purity test in HD-43, where incumbent Tara Rios Ybarra, D-South Padre Island, has been called a "closet Republican" by her Democratic challenger. Reeve Hamilton explains how Democrats have to choose between an Agriculture Commissioner candidate with ranching experience and one who's the consummate promoter. Andrew Kreighbaum weighs in on the six-way free-for-all to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill in Place 3. And Ross Ramsey contemplates the potential karmic payback of state Rep. Chuck Hopson, of Jacksonville, who quit the Democratic party and filed ...

Primary Color: HD-127

by Reeve Hamilton  |  2/19/2010

Four plausible candidates are vying for the GOP nomination to succeed retiring state Rep. Joe Crabb, R-Atascocita, and each has a decent shot. The tough part for voters in this reliably Republican north Houston suburb is differentiating between them.

Texas Tea

by Reeve Hamilton  |  2/12/2010

The Tea Party is a movement more than an organization, with various Texas offshoots that agree on some things and not on others. Like whether to be a PAC or a nonprofit. Which issues to emphasize. And whether to endorse — gulp — Democrats.

Primary Color: HD-66

by Reeve Hamilton  |  2/10/2010

The race to replace state Rep. Brian McCall, R-Plano, has it all: the high price of ambition, reruns of a 2006 campaign ad, a bikini-clad beauty and a fight over conservative bonafides.

Up in the Air

by Reeve Hamilton  |  2/2/2010  |  3

Feeling blue over paltry federal funding for high-speed rail? Forget about it. Two Austin visionaries are already looking ahead to the next transportation innovations.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett on SOTU

by Reeve Hamilton  |  1/28/2010

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, responds to the State of the Union address.

Barack and a Hard Place

by Reeve Hamilton  |  1/28/2010  |  1

Two very different Texans in the U.S. House of Representatives — Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and John Carter, R-Round Rock — respond to the president's State of the Union address.