The idea that the popularity of a candidate at the top of the ballot can pull down-ballot candidates to victory may be only slightly more real than the Loch Ness monster.
Bill White
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Money Matters
The four major gubernatorial campaigns will spend big bucks — maybe as much as $60 million — between now and the March 2 primary. What is that deluge of cash and advertising going to look like? Ben Philpott, who’s covering the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune, filed this report.
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Debate Deconstruction
The race for Texas governor started months ago, but the battles between the best-funded candidates will really take off in the next couple of weeks. One high point: Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison are expected to debate at least once, and maybe twice, in January. So how will those joint apperances figure into the overall campaign? Ben Philpott, who’s covering the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune, filed this report.
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Do Not Open Until After the Holidays
In a couple of weeks, they’ll be all over the place. But political ads at this time of year are dangerous. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune.
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The Brief: December 22, 2009
State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, will be hiking, not running, in 2010.
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2010: Shapleigh Sitting Out
Putting to rest rumors about his future plans, state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh told the El Paso Times today that he plans not to run for any elective office in 2010.
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2010: Changing Horses
Three Democratic legislators who came out early for Fort Worth’s Tom Schieffer in the race for governor say they’ll go with Houston Mayor Bill White, who entered the race as Schieffer exited.
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Jim Hightower on Kinky, White, and the Dems
Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower talks Democratic politics in 2010: Kinky Friedman’s switch to the agriculture commissioner race, Bill White’s campaign for governor, the prospects for his party up and down the ballot, and more.
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2010: Newsweek Calls the Governor’s Race
Newsweek has done its best Carnac the Magnificent impression and divined that the ultimate victor in the race to be the next governor of Texas will be…drumroll please…