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Perot was denied bids for contracts 77 times before receiving his first contract. EDS received lucrative contracts from the US government in the 1960s, computerizing Medicare records. EDS went public in 1968, and the stock price rose from $16 a share to $160 within days. Fortune called Perot the "fastest, richest Texan" in a 1968 cover story. [18]
O'Rourke held the widest lead over Trump out of the Democratic presidential candidates included in the possible match-up. [42] A poll conducted between July 24 and 27 in his home state of Texas found O'Rourke leading all other candidates by 3 points at 27%, a 12-point increase from the previous month's University of Texas poll.
A nonpartisan blanket primary took place, in which all candidates were listed on the same ballot. Since no candidate had received over 50 percent of the vote, the race proceeded to a runoff between the top two candidates in the first round, [9] resulting in two Republicans advancing to the runoff. [7] The runoff took place on July 27. [10]
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
There are too many hotly competitive states, Texas requires too many campaign resources to move the needle, and a state that hasn’t voted Democratic for president since 1976 simply remains too ...
An October 29, 2007, study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy found that through the first five months of 2007, McCain had received the most unfavorable media coverage of any of the major 2008 presidential candidates, with 12 percent of the stories having a ...
Medina is the owner of and boot-finder for Full Circle Vintage, a shop he started as a pop-up when he moved to Austin about 12 years ago. But boots were, as they are for lots of Texans, an ...
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