Oct 18, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: Hillary Clinton’s ad buy in Texas is believed to be around, or less than, $100K, reports the Texas Tribune’s Abby Livingston and others. Reservations have been booked for October 19-25 in the Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio markets for an ad highlighting...
Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign News
Deadlines: Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the deadline for Texans to register to vote for the general election and for general election candidates to file 30-day-out campaign finance reports. We will begin updating our Crib Sheets on Wednesday morning and analyze the numbers,...
Sep 21, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter Registration: More than 14.8 million voters are registered in Texas, up about 600K since March and around 1.2 million since the 2012 presidential election. It is the highest number of registered voters in state history, and the Secretary of State believes that...
Sep 19, 2016 | Ads, Campaign News
Voter ID: U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos sided with the Voter ID suit plaintiffs who argued that state election officials were misleading voters about court-ordered remedies to the Voter ID law. She ordered the state to accurately describe the procedures a...
May 14, 2016 | Campaign News
Early voting begins Monday and runs through Friday for the primary runoff elections. RRC open: The San Antonio Express-News reiterated its endorsement of Gary Gates. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times endorsed Gates for the Republican nomination and Cody Garrett for the...
May 6, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: Judge Lawrence Meyers, the lone Democrat currently holding state office, has withdrawn a lawsuit he filed to overturn the Voter ID law. The suit is not related to a federal lawsuit before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Oral arguments are scheduled...
Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign Finance
State and legislative candidates were required to file 8-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. The full reports are not yet available online, but we’re able to report summary totals for most candidates this morning. In this post, we summarize some of the...
Feb 12, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: Rep. Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas) will endorse Hillary Clinton at her Dallas field office’s grand opening on Saturday. The Dallas Morning News endorsed John Kasich and Clinton for their respective party’s nominations. The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Jeb Bush...
Feb 10, 2016 | Campaign News
CCA: The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Chris Oldner (CCA2), Sid Harle (CCA5) and incumbent Michael Keasler (CCA6). HD27: The Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, Harris Co. Chapter endorsed Rep. Ron Reynolds (D-Missouri City). HD49 open: University Democrats...
Feb 8, 2016 | Campaign News
The State Bar of Texas released the results of its 2016 judicial poll. Participating members of the State Bar of Texas choose a preferred candidate for each office regardless of political party. All incumbents finished in first place for their respective statewide...
Feb 3, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: Sen. Don Huffines (R-Dallas), who headed Rand Paul’s organization in Texas, is now supporting U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz following Paul’s departure from the presidential race today. Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) tweeted that he has endorsed Cruz, and the Texas Tribune...
Jan 23, 2016 | Campaign News
The Tarrant Co. Republican Party released results from the straw poll it conducted at today’s candidate fair in Arlington: PRES: Ted Cruz 40%, Donald Trump 27%, Marco Rubio 9%, Rand Paul 5%, Ben Carson 4%, Jeb Bush 3% CD6: Joe Barton 57, Steven Fowler 37 CD26:...