Hunter wins Texas straw poll
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California congressman Duncan Hunter won Texas' first Republican Party Straw Poll on Saturday in a low-turnout event that lacked the top-tier presidential candidates.
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Texas voters will get &quot;Kinky,&quot; but they won&#039;t get &quot;Grandma.&quot; The state elections chief on Monday rejected gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn&#039;s request to be called &quot;Grandma&quot; on the November ballot, but he decided her fellow independent candidate Kinky Friedman could use his nickname as long as it was accompanied by his given name &amp;#151; Richard.
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Hunter Mahan earns his first PGA Tour victory by winning the Travelers Championship over Jay Williamson with a birdie on the first playoff hole.
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When Duncan Hunter first came to Congress a quarter century ago, there were those who said he&#39;d rather walk through a wall than open a door.
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Tiffany Jackson scored nine of her 19 points early in the second half as No. 4 Texas broke open a close game and went on to a 74-59 win over No. 1 Tennessee on Thursday night.
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Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference.
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In the Nov. 3 BC-ELN--Texas Glance and BC-TX Exit-Poll Excerpts, The Associated Press overstated President Bush's support among Texas Hispanics. Under a post-election adjustment by exit poll providers Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, 49 percent of Hispanics in the state voted for Bush, not a majority. The revised result does not differ to a statistically significant degree from Bush's 43 percent support among Texas Hispanics in a 2000 exit poll.
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SAN DIEGO -- Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, found himself the focus of controversy Monday after leading House conservatives in a successful bid to block a bill aimed at overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence community.
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AUSTIN, Texas - A lawmaker in this firearm-friendly state wants to help more people get the chance to shoot live animals - even if those people can't see. A bill filed for the 2007 legislative session would permit legally blind hunters to use laser sights, or lighted pointing instruments.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain won Saturday's  Washington state contest to pick a Republican presidential  candidate, chalking up another victory in his almost-certain  bid to represent the party in the November election, local  media projected on Sunday.
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Tiffany Jackson scored 9 of her 19 points early in the second half as No. 4 Texas broke open a close game and went on to a 74-59 victory over No.
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By Neil Strassman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 6--Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging conservation effort to preserve and restore the Trinity River basin from its North Texas headwaters south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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London, Dec. 7 - US President George W. Bush&#39;s home town in Texas has beaten Osama bin Laden&#39;s former villa in Afghanistan to win the Turner Prize for modern art.
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California Rep. Duncan Hunter is leaving the House after 14 terms to seek the 2008 GOP presidential nomination Ã¢ÂÂ and guess what? A certain Duncan D. Hunter is running succeed him. But in a San Diego district that&#39;s virtually assured of electing the Republican nominee, a bevy of party hopefuls are lining up to block the family&#39;s succession plans in the 52nd District.
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Colt McCoy passed for 333 yards and three touchdowns to lead No. 7 Texas to an easy 58-14 win over Rice on Saturday night in the Longhorns' last game before the start of the Big 12 schedule.
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Henry Melton ran for two touchdowns, Colt McCoy passed for two more and No. 7 Texas emptied its bench and still piled up the points on Division I-AA Sam Houston State in a 56-3 win Saturday night.
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Kenny Lofton pinches hits and scores the winning run in Texas' 6-5 win over Chicago after almost being out twice in the winning rally.