This is from a Public Policy Polling survey: For the first time since December PPP finds Democrats leading on the generic Congressional ballot, albeit by the insignificant margin of 43-41. The biggest reason for the shift is that the party is becoming more unified. Democratic voters are planning…
Ciro Rodriguez
Charles Cook, the publisher of a widely read (in Washington) political newsletter, has changed his rating of the congressional race for Tx-23 from “likely Democratic” to “leans Democratic.” This is the race between incumbent Democrat Ciro Rodriguez and Republican challenger Quico Canseco. The district includes the northwest, west, and southwest…

The closings of bookstores in San Antonio and Laredo leave a void that can’t be filled with a Kindle.
I met yesterday with William Hurd, who plans to seek the Republican nomination for Congressional District 23, a sprawling district that runs from San Antonio to El Paso, between Interstate 10 and the Rio Grande. I first met Hurd ten years ago, when he was student body president at Texas…