Monthly Archives: March 2014

Cost Per Vote for the Texas Primary

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Lawrence Person

The Texas Tribune has a fascinating chart up showing the cost per vote for Texas races. A few highlight: Wendy Davis spent $4,172,161.26 to garner 432,056 votes, or $9.66 a vote. Greg Abbott spent $8,109,379.17 to garner 1,219,831 votes, or … Continue reading →

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Instead of Actual Content…

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Lawrence Person

…enjoy a Golden Retriever nodding its head in time to the music: There may or may not be any real content today, as it’s a Stuff Needs To Be Done day. But certainly I’ll have something tomorrow at the latest…

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WILLisms Breaks Down Democratic Turnout Failure

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Will Franklin has an interesting piece up detailing just how poorly Democrats did in primary turnout on Tuesday, noting that both the Democratic Party total, and Wendy Davis’ numbers compared to Bill White, were down significantly from 2010. By contrast, … Continue reading →

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A Quick Overview of Primary Results

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Lawrence Person

A very brief look at last night’s primary results: John Cornyn won, but couldn’t break 60% against a field of underfunded challengers. The Democratic Senate runoff is going to be between the big-spender David Alameel and the LaRouche candidate Kesha … Continue reading →

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Dan Patrick Beating David Dewhurst Soundly

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Most people were expecting to see a David Dewhurst—Dan Patrick runoff for Lt. Governor. however, you’d be hard=pressed to find anyone who would predict that not only would Patrick garner more votes in the primary than Dewhurst, but also do … Continue reading →

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On Barack Obama’s “Flexibility” With Russia

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Lawrence Person
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Vote Today!

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Lawrence Person

It’s primary election day in Texas. Find your voting statewide place here. A list of Williamson County polling places can be found here. A list of Travis County polling places can be found here. This winter storm is likely to … Continue reading →

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A Ridiculously Brief Williamson County Election Update

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Since I live in Williamson and have received a ton of flyers on local judicial races, I should probably get together some semi-coherent thoughts about the race and post them here. Fortunately, Holly Hansen has already done the heavy lifting. … Continue reading →

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A Random Assortment of Texas Statewide Race News

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Lawrence Person

With primary voting upon us tomorrow, it looks like I’ve run out of campaign to cover. Here then is a quick, scatter-shot batch of snippets on various races: Wendy Davis is super popular…just not in Texas. “27 percent of the … Continue reading →

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Pete Sessions vs. Katrina Pierson: Super-Brief Race Update

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Lawrence Person

I haven’t been covering the primary race between incumbent Pete Sessions and Tea Party favorite Katrina Pierson for a couple of reasons. First, it’s not my district. Second, when it comes to incumbent Republicans drifting too far left, Sessions (with … Continue reading →

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