Guest Column: How Partisan Are Texas State Senators?
[Editor's note: Mark P. Jones, chairman of Rice University's political science department, has developed rankings of Texas state senators based on their votes during the regular and special sessions this year. According to his analysis, the most conservative senator was Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, while the most liberal was Rodney Ellis, D-Houston. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, and Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, were in the middle. But the distance between those two is greater than the distance between the most and least conservative Republicans and the most and least liberal Democrats. Jones' paper follows, along with his charts and rankings of ...
Comments (6)
Garh Halter
Votes in the Texas senate are not recorded. How did you get invididual votes of senators? Your area is Latin American politics. How did you become an expert in Texas politics?
Proud Texan
Garh, where do you get your information? Votes in the Senate are recorded and the votes are also recorded in the journal. Maybe you should turn your attention to Latin American politics?
David Edmonson
Geez, Garh, I hope you're not a political science professor at A&M or anything.
Amy Eldred
So based on Mr. Lane's analysis, the TX Senate, like the rest of the country reflects two ideologies...
He intimates that the ideological middle is some great place to make decisions from, but when you get right down to it, if a person isn't willing to adhere to their personal morals and principles, they don't bring much to the table. Bottom line, every time someone says that people should move to the "middle" they mean move to the left...
T D
Amy, if I search your name and "Tea Party," am I going to find anything?
jpt51
We need more people like Wendy Davis to run for office!