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...similarly obnoxious Jean Schmidt once again avoided a well-deserved early retirement. Republicans even ousted four first-term Democrats before they could get entrenched in deep-red districts - not only the clearly doomed Casanova Tim Mahoney of Florida, but Nancy Boyda of Kansas, Dan Cazayoux of Louisiana and Nick Lampson of Texas. (See the Top 10 video campaign moments...
Texas: Tom DeLay's Legacy It was expected that incumbent Democratic Congressman Nick Lampson, who holds Tom DeLay's old seat, would have a tough fight on his hands. With minutes to go till poll closing in Texas (thanks to a tiny sliver of far western Texas around El Paso running on Mountain time), only a few votes had been counted at the other end of the state southwest of Houston, but the early vote shows Republican challenger Pete Olson hanging on to a slim lead with about 51% of the early vote in two of the four counties reporting...
...ironies in the district rise as high as Ike's storm surge. In the former majority leader's redrawing of the Texas map, he pulled the Johnson Space Center and NASA, a pork-rich environment, into District 22. And after winning DeLay's old seat, the Democratic leadership restored Lampson seniority based on his four terms representing his old adjacent district, which had been dismantled by DeLay. That led to Lampson serving on three committees vital to the district-agriculture, science and technology, and transportation- which helped him win the endorsement of the influential Farm Bureau, whose 400,000 farmers...
...only debate of the campaign, Olson chided Lampson for talking conservative at home and voting like a liberal in Washington. It is a message Republicans have used with some success against blue dog Texas Democrats in the past, and it would seem likely to resonate in a district that is still around 55% Republican and voted 64% for President Bush in 2004. But DeLay sacrificed some conservatives to scoop up NASA and to boost Republican chances in other districts, leading some Texas observers to suggest those adjustments and a boom in the number of minority middle class voters...
...Austin-based political newsletter, said he has never seen Democrats in the Houston area as organized as they are this year. "Olson is an attractive candidate but it is still a rough year for Republicans," Kronberg said. "Conventional wisdom gives it to the R(epublican), [but] I think Lampson holds...