We have a ton planned for our coverage of primary night, including something approaching real-time results, frenetically updated maps, and a crowdsourced liveblog. Let the game(s) begin!
Evan Smith
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2010: KBH is 28th Most Conservative Senator
National Journal says she’s more conservative than Alexander, Hatch, Murkowski, and a few others but less conservative than the vast majority of her colleagues.
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2010: Chron Endorses Borris Miles
In backing the former state representative over incumbent Al Edwards, the paper cites his “proven business acumen and leadership abilities.”
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2010: Perry Compares KBH to Kinky
He has slammed his main rival in Tuesday’s GOP primary as a creature of the tainted D.C. culture, as insufficiently conservative, as indecisive — but this may be the unkindest cut of all.
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Chron for Gilbert
“[S]omeone who began working at age 10 on the family cattle ranch.”
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: EPT for KBH, White, Kinky
The El Paso Times backs the favorite gubernatorial candidates of edit boards elsewhere and makes its pick in the anybody’s-guess Democratic primary for Ag Commissioner.
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TribLive: A Conversation with Julián Castro
For the third event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the mayor of San Antonio about the big issues facing the nation’s seventh-largest city, how his early notions of the job squared with the reality of being in it, his age, his ethnicity, his party affiliation in a nonpartisan office and, of course, his future plans.
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TribBlog: Mr. President?
Ron Paul wins the first big straw poll of the 2012 race for the GOP nomination.
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Statesman for Chavez-Thompson
“[N]obody in the race — perhaps on the entire ballot — offers a more admirable life story.”
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Star-Telegram for KBH, White
The laggard of the big five papers finally calls, “Bingo!” — joining its edit board counterparts elsewhere in supporting the senior U.S. senator and the former Houston mayor in the upcoming party primaries for governor.
