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Kay Enters The Fray
It’s been a while since we had a good campaign ad on Swampland. You remember the type–macho comforting voice over, soaring music, stock footage of the national character, looking up with big eyes or flapping in the wind. So here goes, the kickoff online spot for Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who announced today her …
Playing Politics With Health Care In Texas
In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat held up Texas as “model citizen” in this difficult economy. And while I’ll take a back seat to no one in my regard for my home state, I have to take issue with Douthat’s suggestion that President Obama should be looking to Texas as he tries to figure out a way to fix health care. As …
City Slicker
Election day in Texas! And that means… cattle?
Obama this morning took a tour of the Future Farmers of America exhibit in Houston, Texas. We’d been promised a rodeo by his handlers and had been wondering: who rides rodeo at 8:30am? Turns out no one. And, alas, Obama didn’t go near any of the prize bulls and cows being groomed by …
Obama Claims the (Thorny) Crown
His blowout victories yesterday in the Potomac Primaries have prompted Barack Obama’s campaign to finally embrace his frontrunner status. After weeks of downplaying expectations, even before contests where he led in the polls by 20+ percentage points, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe today said: “We believe that it’s next to …