Nov 16, 2016 | Campaign News
Provisional and overseas ballots have brought challenger Terry Meza within 69 votes of Rep. Rodney Anderson (R-Grand Prairie), who had a 101-vote lead on Election night. Meza has received 74 provisional votes to Anderson’s 24. The incumbent gained a few net votes from...
Nov 14, 2016 | General Elections, Straight-ticket Voting
A surge of Democratic voters set new records for straight-ticket voting in Dallas Co. Meanwhile, a drop in the number of straight-ticket Republican voters contributed to the largest-ever countywide advantage in straight-ticket voting in the modern era. As a result,...
Nov 7, 2016 | General Elections, Political Climate
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Nov 3, 2016 | Campaign Finance
With so many Texans voting early in general elections and a paucity of competitive races, the impact of “late-train” money in close campaigns is muted. As a result, we are seeing fewer, and smaller, infusions of cash and in-kind contributions during the campaigns’...
Nov 1, 2016 | breaking-news, Campaign Finance
Eight-day-out campaign finance reports were due yesterday for state and legislative candidates (and some local candidates) with general election opponents. The reports cover contributions received and expenditures made between September 29 and October 29. From this...
Oct 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
PRES: We have a little more detail on the UT/Texas Tribune poll released at midnight on Thursday. The poll shows “likey voters” give Donald Trump a 3-point lead over Hillary Clinton, 45%-42%, with minor party candidates and “someone else” collectively polling at 14%....
Oct 19, 2016 | Campaign Finance, House Race Analyses
In HD105, Rep. Rodney Anderson (R-Grand Prairie) has about double the resources of Democratic challenger Terry Meza, according to the candidates’ 30-day-out reports filed last week. Anderson out-raised Meza, $179K to $103K, between July 1 and September 29, and he has...
Oct 12, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Correction: We inadvertently used Rep. Gilbert Peña’s July semiannual report in our initial analysis. His 30-day-out report is not yet available online. We have corrected it below. State and legislative candidates with general election opponents were required to...
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...
Jul 26, 2016 | Campaign News
HD120 runoff: Thirty-seven more people voted in person today, bringing the two-day total to 83. This does not include ballot-by-mail voters, which are likely to comprise a significant majority of all votes cast. Early voting in person continues through Friday. Monday...
Jul 17, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Semiannual campaign finance reports were due Friday, covering either (1) the first six months of the year for candidates who had no primary opponent or (2) the period since the end of the 8-day-out reporting period of either the primary or primary runoff election (or...
