Another dose of winter weather expected to hit overnight from Austin and San Antonio to Houston is injecting a note of uncertainty into today’s party primary elections.
Wendy Davis
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The Brief: March 3, 2014
Election Day is tomorrow, and the tenor of some of the campaigns has moved toward “no quarter, bayonet the wounded.”
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Inside Texas Politics: Primary Day
On this week’s edition of WFAA-TV’s Inside Texas Politics, I talked with host Jason Whitely and Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Bud Kennedy about last week’s University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, Rick Perry and more.
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Abbott’s Wife Now in Political Fray
There is yet another indication that the race for Texas governor will play out increasingly on the volatile terrain of culture and race. This time it involves Abbott’s Hispanic wife, Cecilia.
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The Polling Center: Strong Undercurrents Still Define Abbott-Davis Race
Reporting of this week’s UT/TT Poll can’t help but present a simple story: Davis is down, Abbott is up. But these latest results reflect factors that are much more deeply rooted than the low-hanging fruit making headlines and feeding campaign emails.
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The Brief: Feb. 27, 2014
Texans are much more optimistic about the direction of the state than the nation as a whole, according to the final installment of findings from the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Analysis: In Abbott World, Nugent Flap is Much Ado About Nothing
The way Democrats see it, Greg Abbott hurt himself by campaigning with caustic rocker Ted Nugent. In the Abbott camp, though, the Nuge blowback theory is another fiction spun by the liberal elites.
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Donations to Davis Spike After Abbott’s Appearance With Nugent
Detailed campaign finance records show that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis received a fundraising boost last week as her likely GOP opponent, Greg Abbott, came under fire for campaigning with controversial rocker Ted Nugent.
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UT/TT Poll: Partisan Harmony and Dissonance on Public Education
Boosting funding for public schools and cutting the number of standardized tests top the list of ways the state could change public education most effectively, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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The Brief: Feb. 25, 2014
Democrats and Republicans in Texas differ in their enthusiasm for spending more money for education, but they tend to agree on the need to invest more, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
