Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post blogs on the winners and losers as a result of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on Tom DeLay’s Texas redistricting:
WINNERS
Former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D): Rodriguez’s political career, which seemed all but over following his primary loss earlier this year to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D), has new life. Assuming the courts […]

John J. Miller of the National Review writes about “Henry vs. Ciro: The First Important Election of 2006.”
President Bush’s poll numbers are weak — but are they so lousy that his embrace of a congressman at the State of the Union address will sway Democratic voters in a Texas primary election today?

Gary Martin of the San Antonio Express-News reports on the latest sign of the Cuellar campaign’s ineptitude:
A political attack on former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez by Henry Cuellar’s campaign backfired Friday when an angry Illinois business owner said her company was being dragged through the political mud with false accusations.
Cuellar’s campaign accused Rodriguez of working for […]

A week ago, Act Blue was reporting that $71,000 had been collected on-line on behalf of Ciro Rodriguez in his effort to take back his congressional seat from Bush sympathizer Henry Cuellar. Today, Act Blue is reporting $124,000.
That buys a lot of South Texas TV. And I think the on-line world has only begun to […]

The Texas Environmental Watch has a chart comparing the votes of five Texas congressmen on issues like Arctic oil drilling and holding polluters accountable. Not surprisingly, the votes of Henry Cuellar match up much more closely with his Republican colleagues than they do with the Dems.
[Update:] The Swing State Project reports that the League of […]

Firedoglake blogs about the race to contribute to the campaign of Ciro Rodriguez:
Atrios and Kos both posted today about their page view-to-donation ratio for the Ciro Rodriguez fundraising drive. I’m quite proud to announce that we have the highest percentage of donors relative to readership of any of the three and we also have the […]

As noted in my earlier post, the blogosphere has rallied behind Ciro Rodriguez. Earlier today, Kos wrote:
It’s been about 23 hours since I started posting on this race, and in that time the netroots, Atrios, and Firedoglage [sic] ActBlue pages have collectively raised nearly $30K. The Cuellar people dismissed our efforts yesterday as a “one-day […]

Jaime Castillo and Gary Martin of the San Antonio Express-News report on the reaction to the Bush/Cuellar hug:
A well-traveled photograph of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar being embraced by President Bush prior to Tuesday’s State of the Union address triggered a rush of Internet donations to one of Cuellar’s Democratic primary rivals Thursday.
Within hours of a […]

And you wonder why Democratic members have long speculated that Henry Cuellar would give up the charade and become a Republican?
Once again, Kos is on the story. The photo is in the Washington Post.

Daily Kos also blogs about the recent endorsement of Henry Cuellar by the Club for Growth:
Cuellar beat Rodriguez by 203 votes in the 2004 primary after DeLay’s illegally funded redistricting gambit forced the two sitting congressman into the same district.
There are districts where political realities force us to accept Democrats of Cuellar’s mold — he’s […]