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...made a good start last year by collecting endorsements from most of the South Texas bosses. But stances that might help Clinton elsewhere may be hurtful along the Rio Grande. For example, bashing international trade agreements is a vote winner among factory workers in Ohio, which also votes on March 4. But South Texas Democrats love free trade: the impoverished region pins its economic future on commerce with Mexico. Same with denouncing the oil industry, which employs a lot of Democratic voters in South Texas. Ditto for scorn heaped on the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind legislation. That...
...terrain is not what it was back then. Clinton is an organization Democrat where Democratic organization is a shambles. Nearly 2 million people turned out to vote in the 1988 Democratic primary in Texas; four years ago, the number was less than a million. It's almost impossible for a Democrat to be elected statewide...
...Texas G.O.P. had grown to an asterisk. A person needed a sharp eye to see that the cracks in the Democratic monolith would topple it within a generation. The reasons could fill a book. And the fact that it started with Texans' abandoning the old "solid South" to vote for a gray warhorse, Dwight Eisenhower, should boost the spirits of John McCain. But as Hillary Clinton searches the wreckage for a way to rescue her campaign, these are the pieces she has to work with...
...from there, across the state line in Arkansas, and from 1972 onward, he has nursed the belief that he might somehow reconnect the working-class whites of that region to the Democratic Party. Scant luck so far. But he was still at it in advance of the Texas vote, stumping through places like Tyler and Lufkin and Texarkana and Nacogdoches - proving that the Clintons still believe in a place called Hope...
Wrong. On Tuesday, the first day of early voting, election officials across the state reported a record turnout. In just one day in the state's 15 most populous counties, some 65,000-plus voters went to grocery stores and bank lobbies, rec centers and libraries to vote. Some images are startling: 1,000 Prairie View A&M students, a traditionally African-American college in a rural area west of Houston, marched seven miles to the nearest early voting station. And in a state requiring no party registration to cast a ballot, two out of three early voters...