So there was a very interesting comment dropped in my post from yesterday:
The plan .... (4.00 / 4)
was to offer Richard Morrison two million dollars to run for the 22nd congressional seat. Morrison, in turn, would drop Noriega.
You see how far that secret plan went.
by: Galveston Gale @ Thu Mar 29, 2007 at 14:18:50 PM CST [ Reply | ]
Would somebody please explain to me, again, how brilliant the plan to put all the Texas Democratic Party's efforts into a few House races was. Please tell me, again, how much good will come from that decision made by Matt Angle, political consultant, paid for by Fred Baron, millionaire lawyer, and enabled by Boyd Richie, Chair of the Texas Democratic Party. Exactly what have Texans gained, so far?
(Here's this week's guest column from David Van Os. - promoted by boadicea)
In the presidential election of 1976 the Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale carried Texas, with a 254-county rural-urban coalition conducting a full-court campaign for the state's electoral votes. Jimmy Carter was elected President of the United States in a close election. Had Texas' electoral votes gone instead to Gerald Ford, Carter would not have won the presidency.
It was not unusual for the Democratic national ticket to win Texas. Hubert Humphrey carried Texas over Richard Nixon in 1968, Lyndon Johnson carried it in 1964, and John F. Kennedy carried it in 1960. Like Carter in 1976, Kennedy in 1960 won a close election - one of the closest in history - that he would not have won had he not won Texas.
