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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Talk about cold comfort. Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, edging out likely nominee John McCain.
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Texas A&amp;M's great turnaround season continued Sunday as the Aggies earned a spot in the Cotton Bowl against Tennessee. And the Aggies have their top rival, Texas, to thank for it.
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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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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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Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards received  38 percent of the vote to win an informal poll of Texas  Democrats conducted online, the state&#39;s Democratic party said  on Monday.
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The Texas congressman rallies his online supporters to keep giving money, and to stage a march on the nation's capital to show they mean business. He has only 16 of the 1,191 delegates needed to win the Republican presidential nod.
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There's little doubt about Ohio State after a convincing victory in the 1 vs. 2 showdown with Texas.
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The Texas Longhorns earned another national title Monday, not for football but as the country's best party school.
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EditorÃ¢ÂÂs note: CQPolitics.com will provide results and analysis of the Texas 23 runoff contest Tuesday night.
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NO. 24 OHIO STATE 33, OKLAHOMA STATE 7: At San Antonio - Ted Ginn Jr. and Lydell Ross each ran for a touchdown and Justin Zwick threw for a score as Ohio State beat Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome.
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Texas bumped Utah from the coveted No. 6 spot in the Bowl Championship Series standings released on Monday, improving its chance for its first major bowl in eight seasons.
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California Rep. Duncan Hunter is seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination and retiring from the House after 14 terms, and his son Duncan D. Hunter is running to succeed him in the San Diego-area 52nd District. But the heavily Republican orientation of the open district has not deterred other GOP hopefuls from running against the congressmanÃ¢ÂÂs son.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney narrowly won a straw poll of mostly Christian conservative voters at the Family Research Council's Values Voters Summit held this weekend in the nation's capital.
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Tiffany Jackson got acupuncture before the game to soothe a sore left ankle, then scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead No. 17 Texas to a 64-43 win over No. 13 Texas Tech on Sunday, another key victory in the Longhorns' chase for a third straight Big 12 title.
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Bob Elderkin's vote would appear to be a sure bet for President Bush on Nov. 2. He is a hunter, part of a conservative-leaning group of outdoorsmen that is 38 million strong and avidly supports gun rights.
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How many of Texas' 254 counties on Nov. 7 voted for Richard "Kinky" Friedman, an iconoclastic musician and author who waged an independent campaign for governor? (Friedman finished fourth overall, with 13 percent of the vote, in a race won by Republican incumbent Rick Perry).  0 2 4 6