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?
Tagged: TexasPosted on: December 14th, 2006“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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