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	<description>He's right about Texas politics. And also left.</description>
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		<title>Texas 2010: It’s all about 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dave carney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is best situated to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012? Gallup (October 31-November) finds that 71% of Republicans would &#8220;seriously consider&#8221; supporting Huckabee, with Romney and Palin at 65% each. Other names who show up on GOP presidential polls include Pawlenty, Gingrich, Giuliani, Barbour, Jindal, and Jeb Bush, none of whom are within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez’s race and the committee appointments issue</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5265</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eliot shapleigh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tea-leaves readers in El Paso note that Norma Chavez has been touting her committee appointments around town lately, which they interpret as a sign that she will run for reelection rather than for Eliot Shapleigh&#8217;s now-vacant Senate seat. I have written about the Senate race previously, and other bloggers are all over the race, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White noise: update</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5257</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post on the Bill White rumors, I mentioned that I had asked my Houston-based colleague, Mimi Swartz, to check out the talk that he is going to switch from the Senate race to the governor&#8217;s race.
This is the e-mail she received from Frank Michel of the White operation:
Confirmed there is no truth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White noise</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5255</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep getting e-mails from friends in the politics game that Bill White is going to switch to run for governor. Got one this morning, in fact. Burnt Orange gives life to the rumors today as well. My Houston-based colleague Mimi Swartz made some calls at my request, including to a source close to White, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hopson switch</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5249</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am tempted to use the worn-out image of the canary in the coal mine, but this is more like a vulture pecking at roadkill. The Democrats now find themselves looking up at a 72-78 deficit in the House. The retirement of David Farabee and the party switch by Chuck Hopson have wiped out, without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the UT/Tribune poll’s methodology</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5213</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Tribune&#8217;s web site has a lengthy (26 pages, many of which involve a lot of funny looking symbols and squiggly lines and tiny letters that aren&#8217;t parts of words of just the sort that caused me, after my freshman year at Rice, to change my major from math to history) explanation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perry: I’m more conservative than she is … no you’re not</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5232</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dick cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kay bailey hutchison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rick perry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Morning News&#8217; Trailblazer blog reported Wednesday that Rick Perry had said at a news conference in Dallas that he was a stronger conservative than his gubernatorial opponent. This was fodder for Republican primary voters, but I think it had another purpose. It was a baited hook designed to draw Hutchison into a fight on [...]]]></description>
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