http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle The Trib staff blogs all the latest on Waco area election campaigns. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for The Local Angle: XML. en-us ddoerr@wacotrib.com 2008-04-17T17:48:56-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 The Trib staff blogs all the latest on Waco area election campaigns. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for The Local Angle: XML. U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards reported having $1,288,190 cash on hand in his campaign account this week, up more than $271,000 from December. Edwards, D-Waco, continued to enjoy a huge advantage in campaign dollars over his Republican challenger during the most... http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/04/17/edwards_increases_lead_in_camp.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards reported having $1,288,190 cash on hand in his campaign account this week, up more than $271,000 from December. Edwards, D-Waco, continued to enjoy a huge advantage in campaign dollars over his Republican challenger during the most... 3201203@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-04-17T17:48:56-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/04/01/edwards_obama_won_texas.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Sen. Barack Obama has won Texas and the “game is over” in the state, said U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. Five Democratic members of Congress from Texas who support Obama, including Edwards,... 2805103@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-04-01T18:36:07-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/28/texas_democratic_county_conven.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle All 260 or so county and senatorial district Democratic Party conventions are still scheduled to take place this weekend despite e-mails and “robo-calls” claiming to be from the party that suggest that they have been canceled, according to a Friday... 2712203@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-28T14:37:02-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/27/former_dnc_chief_to_attend_dem.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will be in attendance for the party’s McLennan County convention on Saturday, according to the party’s top county official. John Cullar, chairman of the county Democratic Party, said he was notified... 2694103@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-27T20:40:27-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/20/democratic_party_county_conven.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Local supporters of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will need to make at least one change on their calendar for March 29 after the location for the county Democratic convention has been changed. The McLennan County Democratic Party... 2521303@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-20T09:38:23-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/17/texas_democratic_party_denies.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle The Texas Democratic Party is refusing a request by Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign to postpone the March 29 county conventions, according to a statement released today by party chairman Boyd Richie. On Friday, the Clinton campaign said that a postponement... 2451003@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-17T15:57:09-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/15/clinton_campaign_seeks_to_post.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle While the results of the Texas caucus remains unknown, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign wants the state Democratic Party to postpone county conventions scheduled later this month so the eligibility of participants in the March 4 precinct caucuses can be... 2416103@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-15T20:09:00-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/12/us_senate_candidate_noriega_ra.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Rick Noriega, a five-term state representative from Houston, laid out the future of his campaign in Waco Tuesday night at a local Democratic Party club meeting, making his case on how he plans to take down U.S. Sen. John Cornyn... 2311903@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-12T02:14:48-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/11/democratic_us_senate_candidate.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Rick Noriega, the Texas Democratic Party nominee running to oust U.S. John Cornyn, will visit Waco today to get out his message as he continues to work to raise his name ID. Noriega, a five-term state representative from Houston, won... 2294003@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-11T12:46:15-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/11/obama_appears_to_win_mclennan.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Sen. Barack Obama appeared to be the winner of McLennan County’s Democratic precinct conventions, according to incomplete caucus results released Monday with only three precincts remaining to be reported. In unofficial results, Obama has claimed 536 precinct-level delegates compared to... 2293603@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-11T12:29:36-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/06/obama_leads_clinton_in_mclenna.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Sen. Barack Obama remained ahead of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in McLennan County’s precint-level delegates awarded based on Tuesday night’s caucus results, according to preliminary counts released Thursday afternoon. John Cullar, McLennan County Democratic Party chairman, said Obama was beating... 2182003@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-06T17:48:11-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/06/state_party_chair_commends_rec.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle More than 1.3 million Republicans voted in the GOP primary election for president which almost double the 2004 turnout and 200,000 more than in 2000, according to a Republican Party of Texas press released issued Wednesday. Tina Benkiser, the state... 2174903@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-06T13:41:18-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/05/state_party_says_democratic_ca.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle Boyd Richie, Texas Democratic Party chairman, said the “sun came up” on the state party Wednesday with a huge turnout in the party’s presidential primary and caucus elections. About 2.8 million Texans who voted in the Democratic primary and the... 2148403@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-05T14:15:07-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/05/nonbinding_gop_propositions_pa.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle You won’t find these results in our coverage in the newspaper, in part because they don’t mean much to anyone except Republican voters. Three nonbinding propositions appeared on Texas Republican primary ballots. These essentially are gauging the “temperature” of GOP... 2136603@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-05T08:58:25-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/entries/2008/03/04/mclennan_county_dems_going_wit.html?cxntfid=blogs_election_08_the_local_angle With 100 percent of the vote in, McLennan County voters casting ballots in today’s Democratic primary election gave a 414-vote edge to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Returns showed Clinton with 12,275 votes to Barack Obama’s 11,861 votes. Clinton made a concerted... 2128603@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/listening_post/ 2008-03-04T23:37:38-06:00