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Most appellate court races not competitive outside Houston

Now that filing deadline has past, I'm disappointed to see that Dems fielded no additional candidates besides Keith Hampton for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this year, though they've got horses in all the Supreme Court of Texas races, including Bill Moody who topped all Democratic statewide vote-getters in 2006. (I predict Moody and Hampton will top all other D vote-getters in the November election.)At the appeals court level, the majority of incumbents got a pass and only three of the 14 courts will see more than one contested general election. Seven appellate courts won't have any contested general election races at all, demonstrating that the practice of gerrymandering "safe" districts isn't limited to legislative seats.The dearth of candidates also demonstrates that the Democrats' inability to find strong contenders extends to judicial races on the appellate level...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).