U.S. Senate Runoff Races Are a Study in Opposites
Nearly nine weeks after crowded Democratic and Republican primaries for a rare open U.S. Senate seat were pared down to each party’s top two vote-getters for Tuesday’s runoff, the races have become a study in opposites.
On the Republican side, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz, a former state solicitor general, agree on virtually every issue that could come before them in the Senate. But more than $40 million has been spent by the campaigns and outside groups trying to convince voters that the race provides an opportunity to upend all that is wrong with the ...
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Michael Miranda
Finally an article from the Tribune about the Texas Senate race that covers both parties. In referring to the Democratic candidates the article states "they are struggling to draw the attention of voters or donors". Could that be because most of the media including and especially the Tribune has for the most part ignored the Democratic candidates like they don't even exist for most of this election season.
Adele Roberson
While reading this article by the Texas Tribune I was thinking the Texas Tribune has acted for the last six months like there were not any Democrat candidates running in the Texas race for US Senate.
Scrolling down I find Michael Mirandas' post and he is saying exactly what I wanted to say.
The only informative column I have seen about Paul Sadler was in the Houston Chronicle three months ago when the Chronicle endorced him.
Oh, well... so what else is new? In Texds it is always the same old same old.