The Republican governor of Texas will meet with President Obama when he visits the Lone Star State today to discuss border security.
The Democratic nominee vying to replace Gov. Rick Perry will be in a different part of the state.
Such are the touchy dynamics of presidential campaign events during a mid-term election. A president with low approval ratings in a state he lost by nearly a million votes in 2008 isn't exactly the tonic Democrat Bill White is looking for.
Such scenes, repeated elsewhere, have inevitably given rise to the age-old question of just how much good can a president do for his party's candidates when they're on the ballot and he is not? The answer is, for the most part, quite a lot.
The Republican governor of Texas will meet with President Obama when he visits the Lone Star State today to discuss border security.
The Democratic nominee vying to replace Gov. Rick Perry will be in a different part of the state.
Such are the touchy dynamics of presidential campaign events during a mid-term election. A president with low approval ratings in a state he lost by nearly a million votes in 2008 isn't exactly the tonic Democrat Bill White is looking for.
Such scenes, repeated elsewhere, have inevitably given rise to the age-old question of just how much good can a president do for his party's candidates when they're on the ballot and he is not? The answer is, for the most part, quite a lot.
The Republican governor of Texas will meet with President Obama when he visits the Lone Star State today to discuss border security.
The Democratic nominee vying to replace Gov. Rick Perry will be in a different part of the state.
Such are the touchy dynamics of presidential campaign events during a mid-term election. A president with low approval ratings in a state he lost by nearly a million votes in 2008 isn't exactly the tonic Democrat Bill White is looking for.
Such scenes, repeated elsewhere, have inevitably given rise to the age-old question of just how much good can a president do for his party's candidates when they're on the ballot and he is not? The answer is, for the most part, quite a lot.