Two Primaries, One Ballot: How the 2026 Texas Republican and Democratic Races Compare
Disclosure: This analysis was researched and written with the assistance of Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant. All candidate information was sourced from public reporting, campaign websites, editorial board interviews, and polling data. The persuasion scoring reflects the author’s editorial judgment applied through an AI-assisted workflow. Voters should verify claims independently before casting a ballot. I just finished scoring every candidate in every contested race on both the Republican and Democratic primary ballots for Dallas County. Same methodology for both: two independent 1–10 scales measuring how much each candidate relies on facts/data versus feelings/emotions. Now that both ballots are done, patterns jump out. The two primaries are operating in different universes — different emotional registers, different power dynamics, different relationships with money. Here’s what I found. ...