By Mehgan Sellers and Emily Kim
The community leaders at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church don’t tell their congregation who to vote for; but they do tell them to vote.
Antioch, the first African-American Baptist church in Houston, has run announcements in their newsletters and even has an example voting machine near the entrance where people can […]

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“After trying to save her sinking candidacy with awkward turns of flattery and sarcasm, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton resorted to a new tactic in Tuesday night’s debate: self pity.”
That’s the opening paragraph to this Ron Fournier article about the negativity in the campaigns of the Democratic nominees. His commentary about the debate in Ohio […]

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Recently a commercial was released by Sen. Clinton’s campaign hinting at Sen. Obama’s inability to adequately handle national security issues. Days earlier she was at the debate discussing how much she respects Sen. Obama now she promotes more smear tactics. It is simply the game of politics.
The “3 A.M.” ad as it is called, has […]

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These days, when you look up “King County, WA” in the dictionary, a picture of Barack Obama might accompany it.
Obama won 67 percent of the Washington State vote, compared to Clinton’s 31 percent. Every legislative district in King County went to Obama by an astonishingly high percentage, the highest being 81 percent in the 37th […]

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By Emily Kim
HOUSTON - Barack Obama fanatic and owner of Cravings’ Gourmet Desserts SherRyl DeWalt has found a way to turn her small business into a sweet campaign support. Working out of her house she makes a special peach cobbler she calls ‘Obamalicious’ and pecan and sweet potato pie, their top crusts carved with slogans […]

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By Charles Cadwallader
HOUSTON – Just before 11:00 a.m. today a small crowd of volunteers was finishing up setting the stage for the arrival of President Bill Clinton, who was set to speak at Mason Park in Houston, TX at noon.
By noon a large mass of nearly 1000 people withstood the occasional rain showers to hear […]

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A few days ago, Lawrence Talbot wheeled his suitcase into a Barack Obama campaign office in downtown Austin. He works in public relations in Los Angeles, but decided to stop in Texas on his way back from a Florida business trip.
He did not know anyone in Austin and had no place to stay. […]

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by Laura J. Mansfield
AUSTIN - At 9 a.m. this morning I was heading down Slaughter Lane in Austin, when I looked to my right, and out my window was a giant bull made out of metal, staring at me from the side of the road.
Only in Texas I thought, as I headed to an Obama […]

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By Kate Miller, Philip Pirwitz and Liz Burlingame
You can’t miss it.
Driving into Houston, TX on the freeway, to your right, is the biggest church in North America, Lakewood Church. With over 30,000 members and an arena which the Houston Rockets used to call home, Lakewood seems more like a small city than a church community.
When […]

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By Liz Burlingame and Philip Pirwitz

 
Yes, it’s true. Texas used to lean toward the Democratic Party. Hard to believe, we know.
 
“When? What?” asked one exasperated 18-year-old voter at the San Antonio Clinton rally on Friday. For years, Texas votes have been regarded as sure-things for Republican nominees in a state considered as conservative as New York […]

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