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Election Central

Runoff Day in Texas Fields High-Profile Races Texas voters go to the
polls once again Tuesday to choose party nominees in races that went to a
runoff during the March 6 primary. A number of heated and high-profile
nomination contests will be decided today.
Perhaps the closely watched race today is
between Rep. Ralph Hall, vying for a 18
th
term
against GOP primary challenger John Ratcliffe.
Ratcliffe, a former U.S. Attorney and ex-Mayor
of Heath, Texas, is half of Halls age and was
not yet alive when the incumbent was elected to
his first political office. At 91, Hall is the oldest
person to ever serve in the U.S. House of
Representatives, but after more than three
decades in office, he was challenged by five
fellow Republicans in the March primary.
The Texan has never won re-election with less
than 66% of the vote, until 2010, when a
challenger came fairly close to toppling him.
Now, with Ratcliffe running as the more




President Obama tries out a marshmallow cannon at the
2010 White House Science Fair
conservative outsider, Hall could be the cycles first incumbent to lose a
primary race.
Ralph Hall first won elected office in 1950, and has served in Congress since
1981. He was one of the last Yellow Dog southern Democrat in Congress,
until switching parties in 2003.
The congressman promises that if he wins another term this November
(which banks on his performance today; no Democrat ran), it will be his last.
Hall may not even get that far.

White House Watch

The Presidents Schedule At 11:15
AM, President Obama will host the
annual White House Science Fair,
celebrating celebrate the student
winners of a broad range of science,
technology, engineering and math
(STEM) competitions from across
the country.
This years Fair will include a new
focus on women and girls, and
Obamas speech after viewing the
projects will announce new steps of
his Educate to Innovate campaign,
an effort to inspire more children to
succeed in STEM.
The fourth White House Science Fair will include 100 students from 30
states, as well as Bill Nye the Science Guy and Mythbusters host Kari
Bryon. In light of a new study showing elementary, middle, and high school
boys and girls taking science and math classes at the same rate, but much
less women go into careers in the STEM fields, there will also be a
roundtable for girls at the event, with White House staffers Valerie Jarrett
and Tina Chen.
After the Science Fair, the President will meet with Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel at 4:45 in the Oval Office.