Quick: Who’s the highest ranking woman in Congress? If you said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, you’re right. And you’re obviously using things like “facts” to arrive at that conclusion.  Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison apparently has a different method of calculation. Hutchison, who will challenge incumbent Rick Perry for...

The signs are good for Harris County Democrats.  Here’s an email I got today from a well-connected local Dem pol: 314,000 citizens have voted in person at the early voting locations. 45,000 citizens have already returned their mail ballots. That’s a total of almost 360,000 early votes with approximately 28,000 mail in ballots sent out but not...

First, a poll: Harris County voters are on the verge of favoring a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 44 years — putting the area out of step with the rest of Texas, according to a Houston Chronicle poll. They gave Barack Obama the edge over Republican John McCain by 7 percentage points this week, with very few undecided or backing...

Rick Noriega is the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas.  His opponent is incumbent Republican Bush clone John Cornyn. This is a steep, uphill battle for Rick.  Texas hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994.  But a lot of Democrats believe that this is our year and Rick is the candidate to do it. They may be right. ...