Late Night Texas Round-Up

by: Karl-Thomas Musselman

Mon Oct 04, 2010 at 09:00 PM CDT

• Democrat Bill Moody is the only statewide judicial candidate to get the endorsement of the Houston Chronicle.


• Multiple BOR staff members quoted in this Statesman story on Social Media in the 2010 Texas elections.


• Will John Cornyn and Pete Sessions stay on as the campaign chairs for another cycle for the NRSC & NRCC?


• I'm hoping Democrats are smart enough to do this legally given that Texas Republican have proven they don't know how.


• Yes, another link to Rick Perry vs. The World. But it's still decent writing and worth a read if you want to peer into the polls.


• I suspect 538 is about to update their Gubernatorial rankings since the last run was a week ago. Still, Rick Perry has been stable at about an 85% favorite to win according to their models. They also show Chet Edwards losing, but Ciro Rodriguez holding on.


• Houston firefighters endorse Perry.


• The City of Austin finally takes apart the Tri-Party agreement that has underperformed expectations of redevelopment and revitalization of the 11th and 12th Street corridors in East Austin.
  

Bonus

• One of my favorite things back when I was a print newspaper editor in high school was headline writing, something that once took me to State in UIL competition. So read this- Twitter users: How to tweet better using the wisdom of newspaper copy editors.


• Why do intelligent people fail?


• This map from The Electoral Map Blog says a lot by itself.

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• President Barack Obama has appeared with one of the gubernatorial candidates in a TV ad- Rick Perry.