Sep 8, 2016 | House Race Analyses, Straight-ticket Voting
Our ongoing look at straight-ticket voting trends in competitive or potentially competitive districts today explores HD27 in Fort Bend Co. The district covers most of Missouri City, Stafford and the Fort Bend Co. portion of Houston, plus portions of Arcola, Pearland...
Sep 7, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: “Despite the Remedial Order’s clarity, Texas’s voter education and poll worker training documents depart from it,” claimed the U.S. Dept. of Justice in a motion to enforce the interim remedial order filed today (Wednesday). U.S. District Court Judge Nelda...
May 26, 2016 | Political Climate, Runoff Elections
A few days ago, we listed some storylines we’d be watching as the runoff election votes were tallied. Here we revisit those storylines and a couple of others from previous posts. Wayne Christian Christian or Gates? We knew one of the candidates was going to buck...
May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Through three days of early voting, fewer than 1.5% of registered voters have cast ballots by mail or in person in the primary runoff election in the state’s 15 most populous counties. Republican runoff turnout through three days is 60% below 2012 and 54% below 2014....
May 18, 2016 | Campaign News
Early voting for the primary runoff election continues. As we noted yesterday, Republican turnout continues to lag behind 2012 and 2014, while Democratic turnout is ahead of both years. Absentee voting by mail continues to be the main driver of turnout so far. Friday...
May 17, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Three incumbent representatives did not win their multi-way primaries outright and now face runoff challengers. The two Republican incumbents raised more than $800K combined since the primary, and each significantly out-raised his opponent. The lone Democratic...
May 10, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC open: The Austin American-Statesman endorsed Gary Gates for the Republican nomination and declined to endorse for the Democratic nomination. SD24 open: The Dawn Buckingham campaign announced the endorsement of Blanco Co. Comms. Paul Granberg and James Sultemeier....
May 9, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC open: The Dallas Morning News made no endorsement in the Republican runoff between former Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Center) and Gary Gates. The paper endorsed Grady Yarbrough in the Democratic runoff. SD24 open: The Dawn Buckingham campaign released a new radio ad...
Apr 29, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: The U.S. Supreme Court will let the Texas Voter ID law stand (PDF), for now, paving the way for its continued use in the general election. However, SCOTUS gave the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals a July 20 deadline to rule on the case pending there. Oral...
Apr 13, 2016 | Campaign News
TREPAC Endorsements: The Texas Assoc. of Realtors TREPAC announced its runoff endorsements: RRC open: Gary Gates SD1 open: Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) SD24 open: Rep. Susan King (R-Abilene) HD5 open: Cole Hefner HD18 open: Ernest Bailes HD27: Rep. Ron Reynolds...
Mar 15, 2016 | By the Numbers
Filed under HD128, HD27,...
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 hottest...
