about a contest for Texas state representative in Lyndon Johnson’s old hometown between a GOP Christian conservative incumbent and his 24 year old Democratic challenger that highlights the 2002 battle, across the Lone Star state, between George W. Bush’s ascendant Texas Republicans and a multi-cultural Democratic ticket headed by a Mexican-American gubernatorial candidate and an African-American candidate for United States Senate. Liz Smith wrote "this is grassroots politics, the lifeblood of the USA, as seldom seen before," the Washington Post called "absorbing" and "funny," the Dallas Morning News wrote "this is an artist at work," and John Leonard, in New York Magazine, wrote that "compared to the sound bites that pass for coverage on the networks and the yaps that pass for analysis on the primal-scream cable shows, this flying visit to a small election towers like De Tocqueville."