. . . the Houston Chronicle.
Today our locals did a nice preview of Tuesday's Texas presidential primaries.
Wait! Silly me. Make that . . .
. . . "primary."
"Texas Republicans may give Romney the clinching delegates," writes Emily Wilkins in a generally useful piece, so far as it goes. Her thesis is that in theory Mitt Romney can wrap up the GOP nomination tomorrow, but that Mssrs. Paul, Gingrinch, and Santorum may win enough delegates to deny him.
Despite the state's strong Republican leanings, Romney has shown little love for Texas in the days leading up to the primary. He has visited the state only once and held private fundraising events rather than public rallies.
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"He hasn't had a single rally or meeting with grassroots," complained Texas Republican Party Chairman Steve Munisteri. "I think he takes Texas for granted."
This is a legitimate story. Maybe Texas will give Mr. Romney the delegates he needs; maybe it won't.
Where the Chronicle fails is in not asking whether Mr. Obama -- the man the newspaper recommended to Texas in 2008 -- might be embarrassed tomorrow in the same way that he has been dissed in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas -- by losing more than 40 percent of the Democratic primary vote to Mr. Nobody and Mr. Uncommitted.
There's at least a sporting chance that a lot of Texas Democrats will also show up and register their opposition. Forty percent is unlikely -- Texas Democrats have already purged most moderates and conservatives -- but double digits could happen.
But not that you would know by reading the Chronicle.
I think it is just bad journalism.
Given the newspaper's political bias, however, the contrary thesis is at least plausible: that the newspaper doesn't want to mention the possibility of voting against the president because mentioning the possibility might well encourage some yahoos who read the Houston Chronicle to do just that.
Why would any Texas Democrat vote against Barack Hussein Obama?
Possibly because, Ms. Wilkins and Mr. Editors, the president of the United States has undertaken to harm Texas in so many, and such profound, ways that Mr. Romney's failure to show love for Texas is a fleabite on an elephant's rump by comparison.
These spontaneous local uprisings against the president in his own party won't topple him, but they are still important. Sean Trende calls them "a sort of organic primary challenge to Obama."
Advice to Texas Democrats here on how to vote against Mr. Obama tomorrow, not once but twice.
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