How the G.O.P. Got Blindsided in Texas - What does the Democrats’ upset victory in a congressional special election mean for the two parties’ battle for the Hispanic vote in 2008?

“The Texas redistricting engineered three years ago by former Republican leader Tom DeLay has claimed another victim ”” a Republican in heavily Hispanic south Texas. In an unexpected coda to the GOPs midterm election debacle, seven-term Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla was defeated in a special runoff on Tuesday by former Democratic congressman Ciro Rodriguez. The upset has Democrats dreaming of a fresh start in Texas, a state that has provided an almost unrelenting chain of bad news for the party in recent years.”

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