By Charles Cadwallader
SEATTLE, WA – One week ago I was sitting in a jet on my way back to my home state of Washington, I had just spent the previous five days frantically running around Texas reporting what our professor has called the “primicaucus.”
Now I’m back in Seattle and still covering the ongoing nomination race […]

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9:48 p.m. CT
CNN.com is reporting that the Texas primary results are showing Clinton and Obama in a dead-lock, at 49 percent and 49 percent.
Harris County, a predicted stronghold for Obama, has not yet released any results.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson just arrived, here to support Obama.
Hold onto your hats, kids.

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The quality of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plus disagreement with George W. Bush has propelled some gay Republicans to cross the partisan aisle in this election.
Noel Freeman, President of the Log Cabin Republicans chapter in Houston, is one of these people. And because of that he said he’ll be stepping down from his […]

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by Mehgan Sellers and Emily Kim
Across the country, dinner tables are split over this year’s Democratic nomination. The divide runs through race, religion and even party lines.
The Houston GLBTs are no different. Their two major groups in the city are split, as is the general community. The Houston GLBT Political Caucus endorsed Obama last […]

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By Will Mari and Cailin Magruder, SeattlePoliticore

HOUSTON- He preached to the choir.
Literally.
On Sunday, former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee urged evangelical voters to make their voices heard as he visited supporters at Grace Community Church south of Houston.
Grace’s Pastor Steve Riggle introduced Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister, as the election’s conscious candidate for social conservatives.
He […]

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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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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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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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