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Despite the weight of the unwanted bling, the Washington-based political analyst Charlie Cook has changed his analysis of the race from "leans Republican" to "tossup." My friend Paul Burka of Texas Monthly takes issue with Cook, ...

The electoral defeat of the highest-ranking Hispanic Republican in Texas has triggered widespread speculation that race is still a significant obstacle in Texas politics, particularly among the Right. Victor Carrillo, the incumbent ...

Gregory Tejeda's take on Texas politics · Blowtorch Bob: The Duty to Remember El Salvador's Roberto D'Aubuisson · Don Francisco's Chile-Relief Telethon Raises $60 Million · Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and ...

Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California By Michael Barone March 09, 2010 Stop messing with Texas! That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed.

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WASHINGTON – Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama , a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help ...

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll found that fewer people approve of Congress than at any point ... They're always stalling, playing politics, trying to jockey for a better position for their own re-election." In recent weeks, Obama has ...

Washington (CNN) -- Some 65 years after their service, a group of former civilian women pilots whose unheralded work was key to helping the U.S. effort in World War II are being honored Wednesday with the Congressional Gold Medal. Fewer than 300 ...

President Obama blamed Washington's obsession with keeping score in politics for the uphill battle his health care legislation has faced. Bill Plante reports. (AP) Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty ...

When Dori Martin and Marylyn Myers Peyton joined the U.S. Air Force in the 1940s, little did they know that they would one day become a part of history. President Barack Obama signs a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce ...

Her boyfriend, Kurt Gorman, told the Philadelphia Daily News that the two met in Ennis, Texas, several years ago and that nothing seemed amiss until she packed up her clothes and moved out of their apartment in Pennsburg without warning in August ...

Ten political races to keep an eye on during the 2010 midterm elections ... Ron Paul's, R-Texas, 2008 presidential campaign. McMahon, a multimillionaire who is spending heavily on her own race, is the favorite to win the GOP nod. Her campaign ...

... champion debater in high school and became so deeply involved in electoral politics that he never took a degree, though he was just a couple of classes short. Later, when enrolled briefly at the University of Texas, he would acquire a life-long ...

Texas currently ranks sixth in the nation for highest foreclosure rates ... Limbaugh claims its to avoid a millionaire tax, which is ironic, considering his politics.

That's what National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Cornyn , R-Texas, did this week, and the ramifications for Republicans ... through the unique prism of national party politics.