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Political conventions

Impact of GOP convention lukewarm for Romney, but positive for Perry and Cruz

By Karen Brooks Harper

09.04.12 | 8:59 am

While Dems get set to take the stage for their convention in Charlotte this week — and the national GOP begins to weigh the impact of its own recently ended meeting — here are two Texan ...


GOP upset

Cruz defeats GOP stalwart Dewhurst in watershed victory for Tea Party

By Karen Brooks Harper

08.01.12 | 6:00 am

Establishment Republicans lost another one on Tuesday night, as upstart Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz snatched the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in a primary runoff that at the end of the day was an ...


The war on women

Fighting back: Seeing Red at the Texas State Capitol on behalf of women's health

By Shelley Seale

03.07.12 | 8:00 am

Hundreds of people. dressed in red, converged on the Capitol Tuesday, waving banners and signs and demanding that Rick Perry and the GOP stop their war on women. The "Seeing Red" prot ...


A Paul Primer

The non-centrist centrist: Ron Paul's complex GOP line-dance

By Eoghan McCloskey

02.16.12 | 3:29 pm

Duality is part and parcel of American political culture. With few exceptions, all major elected positions are held by members of one or the other party. Duality is even reflected in the language w ...


post-mortem

The rise and fall of Rick Perry: Why Texas' three term governor couldn't last three weeks on the national stage

By Adam Sparks

01.20.12 | 3:00 pm

Rick Perry didn’t think it would end like this. Going into the first Southern primary in the race, Perry, who had commanded over one third of the South Carolinian vote back in August, was ...


Warm and fuzzy

Anita Perry aims to charm in new campaign ad (see hubby Rick pounce at the end)

By Caroline Gallay

12.22.11 | 6:00 pm

Hot on the heels of presidential hopeful Rick Perry's controversial campaign ad dismissing Don't Ask Don't Tell and suggesting that Christian prayer is prohibited in public schools, his ...


presidential politics

Ron Paul's ascension: Why are conservative voters supporting a man who will never be president?

By Garland Grey

12.21.11 | 1:00 pm

Last week when it was announced that Newt Gingrich was the latest front-runner in the GOP primary, White House senior strategist David Axelrod commented on the former Speaker of the House’s s ...


Home for the holiday

Perry jumps off the stump and comes home for Thanksgiving

By Karen Brooks Harper

11.23.11 | 11:51 am

Call it the law of diminishing returns that makes it worthwhile for people like Texas Gov. Rick Perry to jump off the stump and come home for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Conventio ...


Follow the money

Big money still rolling in as Perry falls in the polls

By Whitney Radley

10.06.11 | 4:02 pm

Unlike Texas' public school system, Rick Perry's campaign is well funded. The Drudge Report reported Wednesday morning in an exclusive: Republican White House hopeful Rick ...


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