At this morning’s TribLive conversation, political strategists Matthew Dowd, Mark McKinnon and John Weaver explain why they haven’t made up their minds in the 2012 race.
2012 elections
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TribLive: The State of the 2012 Race
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, political strategists Matthew Dowd, Mark McKinnon and John Weaver assessed the state of the 2012 presidential race.
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TribLive: Romney and the Hispanic Vote
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, political strategists Matthew Dowd, Mark McKinnon and John Weaver discussed Mitt Romney’s pressing need to win over Hispanic voters this fall.
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Demographics
Dewhurst’s Latest TV Ad: “Stop Obama’s Amnesty”
In a new TV ad, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst describes the southern border as “a 2,000-mile monument to the failure of Washington,” and the U.S. Senate candidate says President Obama’s recent executive order “burns me up.”
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In Debate, Sadler and Yarbrough At Odds on Economy, Immigration
In a debate between the Democrats running for U.S. Senate, retired educator Grady Yarbrough and former legislator Paul Sadler disagreed on most major issues, including whether America needs a “Berlin Wall” on the southern border.
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Public Education
Cruz Accuses Dewhurst of “Deliberate Falsehood”
Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz said Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made a “deliberate falsehood” when he said that he had never supported a payroll tax. Dewhurst’s campaign says the allegations are “false and misleading.”
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Updated: Liveblog: The KERA Senate Debate
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz faced off Friday night in the first debate of the hotly contested Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate.
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Texas Weekly Newsreel: Senate Runoff Debates
This week, the volume goes up in the U.S. Senate primaries, with debates for the Republicans on Friday and the Democrats next week, sponsored by KERA Dallas, the Tribune, Hearst, Univision and others.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aguilar on the aftermath of changes in U.S. immigration policy, Batheja on how the Republican candidates for Senate are handling that sensitive issue, KUT’s Philpott on new driver’s license laws and immigration, M. Smith on racial tensions and an ousted police chief in Jasper, Galbraith on the state’s efforts to limit electric service blackouts, Hamilton on the hot Campbell-Wentworth Senate runoff in Central Texas, Murphy maps the May primary voting, Root on the restoration of the arson-damaged Texas Governor’s Mansion and Dehn’s latest Weekend Insider on obese Texans: The best of our best content from June 18 to 22, 2012.
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Perry: Cruz Backers Don’t Know “How Texas Works”
A Super PAC backing Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s bid for the U.S. Senate released a new web video Friday in which Gov. Rick Perry praises Dewhurst’s conservative record and criticizes some backers of former Solicitor General Ted Cruz as uninformed.
