View county-by-county thematic maps visualizing the partisan breakdown and turnout in the 2010 governor’s race.
2010 elections
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A Conversation With Mark McKinnon and Mike Baselice
For the 15th event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the former George W. Bush and John McCain media strategist and Rick Perry’s pollster about what happened Tuesday night: how the Republicans took back the majority in the U.S. House and upped their number of seats in the Texas House by 30 percent, what that portends for the next two years in Austin and Washington, D.C., and whether the governor is really running for president.
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TribLive: Mark McKinnon and Mike Baselice
Full audio and audience Q&A from our TribLive post-election debrief with pollster Mike Baselice and media strategist Mark McKinnon.
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What Victor Carrillo Problem?
Republican victories in Texas House races included several by Hispanic Republicans. But as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, those freshman members may have to perform a bit of a balancing act in a party that seems likely to push hard-line immigration legislation.
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State Government
Frenemies: A Love Story
More than in any past campaign, Rick Perry showed himself to be adept at what you might call the friendly attack, striking on one level while making nice on another. He did it to the press, and he did it to the federal government.
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On the Records: A “Fed Up” Word Cloud
Gov. Rick Perry’s new book, Fed Up!, has 56,000 words, but “federal,” “government,” “people,” “Washington” and “states” are the most commonly used.
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State Government
On the Records: Mapping GOP Gains
Texas is — at least geographically — more red after Tuesday’s GOP wave.
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2010 Full Election Results
Complete 2010 general election results up and down the ballot, and county-by-county interactive results maps for statewide races.
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Congress
What Chet Does Next
His resounding defeat was only one of Election Day’s many hits to the solar plexus of the state Democratic Party. But the loss of the powerful and politically talented U.S. congressman from Waco engenders the most speculation. What’s next for Chet Edwards?
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State Government
The Speaker in a Squeaker?
Tuesday’s elections gave Republicans a nearly two-thirds majority in the Texas House — and, with it, the power to do just about whatever they want in the next legislative session. But as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, the party faithful are battling over who should lead the lower chamber.