From the Texas Tribune:
- Three Texas House runoffs give warring GOP factions chance to settle up before November.
This article is focused on races for the Texas House of Representatives, but it illustrates terms and concepts you will see in the chapters on elections, parties and interest groups.
I want you to read this and explain what it is telling us about competition within the Republican Party, not between Republicans and Democrats.
Relevant terms:
- incumbent
- primary
- hardline conservative
- runoff
- intraparty factions
- grassroots
- Republicans
- political elite
- Texas Right to Life
- Empower Texans
- special interest groups
- Associated Republicans of Texas
- Super PACs
- liberal
- Planned Parenthodd
- Second Amendment
- property tax
