Rick Perry’s Blogger Summit featured big-name speakers, social media strategizing and a chance to shoot guns with the Governor. What it didn’t feature: much talk about Texas.
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Spoiler Alert
What’s it like to be a person who wages a no-win campaign but, by taking votes away, dooms the chances of one or more of the other candidates in the race? Mark White knows. Kinky Friedman knows. Debra Medina could soon find out.
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Primary Bloggers
On Jan. 23, bloggers learned the tools of the trade at the Perry 2010 Blogger Summit featuring Andrew Breitbart, Gov. Rick Perry, and others.
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The Polling Center: It’s a Texas Thing
Texas identity remains alive and well and continues to play a critical role in the state’s politics.
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2010: “Strongly Disapprove”
It seems Republicans in Texas are generally unimpressed with the President, according to Rasmussen poll numbers.
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TribBlog: Nullification Now
For the disgruntled ultraconservative, nullification may be the new secession. But as one prominent legal scholar puts it, “If you believe in nullification, you don’t believe in the constitution.”
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The Brief: January 15, 2010
Note to self: don’t bring gun to the grocery store. Even if you wish you could.
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The Unmentionables
Meet the Democratic candidates for governor that no one’s talking about.