Blogs: January 2015

The United States Supreme Court's recent announcement that it will review the constitutionality of requiring states to recognize same-sex marriage invites another look at the attitudes toward same-sex marriage from the most recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll – which found attitudes largely divided along partisan lines.

The outcome of the vote for Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 84th was never in doubt, leaving most analysis of the voters for Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) and Scott Turner (R-Frisco) to focus on the sources of division. As a first cut at that discussion, we put together a map of the votes by district.