||Texas Congressional District 17||Map||||Chet Edwards (D) [bio, $$] vs. Van Taylor (R)||Calhoun, Aransas, San Patricio, Nueces (part)||Bosque, Brazos, Grimes, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Madison, McLennan, Somervell, Burleson (part), Limestone (part), Robertson (part).||
More than a year ago, pundits an analysts across the country predicted that Chet Edwards (D-Waco) would have a tremendous fight on his hands to [...]

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One day after the NRCC pulled its support from Van Taylor, the DCCC decided to pull about a million from Chet Edwards, evidently believing that Edwards has the race in the bag and Taylor is, as everyone predicted, toast.
This is good and bad. It’s good because, at the very least, Edwards won’t get last minute [...]

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One day after the NRCC pulled its support from Van Taylor, the DCCC decided to pull about a million from Chet Edwards, evidently believing that Edwards has the race in the bag and Taylor is, as everyone predicted, toast.
This is good and bad. It’s good because, at the very least, Edwards won’t get last minute [...]

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Nate Nance is one of my favorite Texas bloggers. He’s also probably one of the state’s more under-rated bloggers simply because his blog isn’t strictly all politics, all the time.
It’s posts like the one he did yesterday on the ‘intern’ non-scandal that Right of Texas has tried to ignite that show that Nate’s got mad [...]

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I knew this was coming and actually had the tip a couple days ago from a DC source and decided not to go with it because I was unsure of this particular source, since it came out of the blue. I thought it might be a plant to deliberately throw us off the trail.
But, it [...]

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The always enjoyable Anna Tinsley has a well-written look at the CD-17 race in the Star-Telegram today.
Tinsley catches a lot of the subtleties involved in the race this year, and I like how she phrases this:
Republicans are making another run, in what some say could be one of the costliest congressional races this year, at [...]

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Since I’ve been accused of picking on Van Taylor (I actually pick on all Republicans equally), I hate to do two anti-Taylor posts in a row, but this came across my desk via a Google Alert.
It’s a sure sign things are not going well for you if you are a Republican running for U.S. Congress:
Democrat [...]

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Over in CD-17, I’m sure Van Taylor (R-West) was hoping for a much better second-day bounce from his appearance on Hardball the other night.
However, when the reaction on day one is a disaster, you know it’s going to be worse on day two.
Paul Hackett, who Taylor appeared with on Harball, had more choice words for [...]

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The Republican’s only Iraq War vet running for Congress didn’t do too great of a job handling Chris Matthews (or Paul Hackett, for that matter) on Hardball last night.
Van Taylor (R-West), who is running against Congressman Chet Edwards (D-Waco) to represent a congressional district that includes President Bush’s Crawford ranch, seemed to have trouble with [...]

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The MainStream Media has taken note of the fact that CD-17 GOP Nominee Van Taylor has no real roots in the area he carpetbaggered into to run for Congress.
Mayor Russell Willsey of West, the city Taylor lives in, says he “wouldn’t know [Taylor] if [he] saw him,” and that he has not met the wealthy, [...]

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