Guest Column: Republican Candidates, Side by Side
Editor's note: Mark P. Jones, chairman of Rice University's political science department, is taking his work on the ideological stands of state legislators to another arena, namely how candidates with legislative voting records compare with one another. As you might expect, it depends. Jones' paper follows.
The Extent of Ideological Differences in Six Texas GOP Primaries
The 2012 primary season features a host of highly contested legislative races involving competing ideological and interest groups within the Texas Republican Party. I examined six — four in the House and two in the Senate — which each involve two current or former ...
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Steven Kite
It's important to note, however, that these are STILL Texas Republicans...
Saying that one is "to the left" of another is very much akin to comparing, say, Genghis Khan's humanitarian instincts to those of Attila the Hun.
None have been within navigational distance of sanity since before Raygun took office; anyone who drifts that way even in the mildest rhetorical sense will be destroyed by any means necessary. Fortunately there are none within the party that would even know where 'left' IS....