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Last year, the Senior Gift Committee released a video parodying the “Don’t Vote” campaign. We didn’t think too much of that one either. But we look forward to this year's full-length video. If you think you can decode this cryptic teaser, feel free to leave a prediction about the next one in the comments...
...recent New York Times story, the Senator mused that she had been hoping the "November Republicans" - a reference to the moderates she has relied on for support in the past in a state with no party registration - would turn out and vote in the primary. But her campaign appears to have misjudged the tectonic political shifts of the past year...
That indecision has helped the Perry campaign relentlessly pin the Washington label on the Senator, dubbing her Kay "Bailout" Hutchison for supporting the bailout bill for the banks. The latest online video ad released by the Perry campaign casts Hutchison as the "Earmark Queen" to the music of Abba's "Dancing Queen." Hutchison has said her work for Texas in bringing home funds for the state should be "celebrated and appreciated," but Perry has tapped the zeitgeist and run an astute campaign, according to James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas...
...mining a historically rich Texas vein of independence. (Coincidentally - and helpfully for Perry - primary day on March 2 is also Texas Independence Day; Hutchison has tried to play on the coincidence with a "declare your independence from Perry" tour.) It is no accident that his final week on the campaign was dotted with economic-development press conferences and talk of balanced budgets in contrast to Washington ways. That message of Texas resiliency and fiscal conservatism resonates with Texans of both parties. A recent poll by the Texas Politics Project found 88% of Texas Republicans believed that the Texas state government...
...final weekend of the campaign, both Perry and Hutchison were stressing their Texas roots. Hutchison, a fifth-generation Texan and a Daughter of the Republic of Texas, sat astride a quarter horse, wearing a black Stetson as she rode in the Houston Rodeo parade. Her cowboy boots were decorated with the word Senator. As for Perry, he spoke to the Texas State Rifle Association Saturday. "Texas is just a sensible place to live. It's a sensible place that takes sensible approaches to issues like gun rights," he said. "We treat our citizens like adults in this state...