Officially, it's the 6th biggest city in Texas.
Officially, it's the 21st largest city in the US.
(Unofficially, it population & rank are (much) higher.)
Technically, it's the oldest European settlement in what is now the United States (1598), easily beating both Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth (1620).
It's hometown to the largest military installation in the US, just about the size of Rhode Island.
As a metro area, it's the largest border town in the world.
It even has a congressman who, as House intelligence committee chair, stumbled into deserving some dKos adulation this week by calling-bluff and killing-off the so-called "Protect America Act" (FISA).
But as an extremely Blue city in an extremely Red state... and for lots of other shrewd reasons.... "here" is totally ignorable by everybody with any national political savvy.
So why were all the Clintons -- Hillary Tuesday, Chelsea Friday, Bill Friday & Saturday -- here 3 days this week?
((read the rest of this diary here, and then the poll will make sense :))
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