Sen. Hutchison voted for the Bush plan to rescue the finance industry, not the Obama plan.

Yesterday's post on the 2010 Texas gubernatorial race -- focusing on the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) has sold her DC-area home (a further indication that she is indeed serious about her GOP primary challenge to Gov. Rick Perry) -- needs two clarifications.

First, I wrote that she voted in favor of the Obama financial industry bailout; that was incorrect. She actually voted for the Bush plan -- the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 -- on Oct. 1 of that year, a bill that allowed the Treasury Secretary to purchase some $700 billion of troubled assets from banks and other financial institutions. It passed by a vote of 74-25. But she did not vote for any Obama economic bailout or stimulus package measures. (Yesterday's post has been changed to reflect that.)

And second, in listing Democratic candidates for governor of Texas, I omitted Hank Gilbert. Gilbert, his party's nominee for state Agriculture Commissioner in 2006, is a cattle rancher who is focused on improving state highway projects and fighting for private property rights.

In a Junkie post back on March 16, the question, from a reader, was, had Madelyn Dunham lived to see his inauguration, would Barack Obama have been the first president with a living grandparent? I said yes.

I was wrong.

As Philip Leib of Westfield, N.J., writes:

I give you Mary Josephine Hannan Fitzgerald, wife of John Fitzgerald, mother of Rose Kennedy, grandmother of John F. Kennedy, born October 31, 1865, died August 8, 1964.

Also, in my "This Day in Campaign History" feature on March 20, I said that Lindy Boggs (D-LA) was the first woman ever elected to Congress from Louisiana. Well, kinda, writes Mart Martin of San Francisco, who has a fascinating tale to tell:

Boggs wasn't the first woman elected from Louisiana, but she was the first one seated. In 1933, Rep. Bolivar Kemp (D) died in office. The struggle to fill his seat turned into a free-for-all. Huey Long wanted Kemp's widow, Lallie Connor Kemp, to succeed her husband, but the district's leaders (anti-Long) had other plans. They boycotted the special election called to fill the seat, which Mrs. Kemp won with 99.8% of the vote. They also managed to have the results thrown out and the election voided, which necessitated another special election a few months later. Mrs. Kemp, disgusted by all the anti-Long and pro-Long shenanigans, chose not to run in that election.

And here's one, from Sarah Parsons of Virginia, I've been saving for a while -- since January of 2008, in fact:

You stated today on Talk of the Nation that on Super Tuesday, "8 million states will be holding primaries and caucuses at the same time." This is impossible, seeing as there are not 8 million states in the country.

I don't recall saying that at all. But if I did, Sarah is quite right. There are far fewer states. I was off by only 7,999,950.

Hard to believe, but there were some inaccuracies in the Political Junkie in recent weeks. They are cleared up here.

Neuhaus ran in a caucus, not a primary; Chichester was the nominee, not Coleman

Following the death of theologian Richard John Neuhaus last week, we said that back in 1970, during his "liberal" phase, Neuhaus ran against conservative Rep. John Rooney (D-NY) in the Democratic primary in Brooklyn's 14th District. Not so, wrote Jerry Skurnik of New York City. Neuhaus actually tried to win the backing of a caucus of anti-Vietnam War Democratic activists to run against Rooney. That honor went instead to Peter Eikenberry, who went on to lose to Rooney in the primary. (Good news: A button from Neuhaus' campaign survives!)

In a Dec. 22 posting, as an aside to someone who confused Paul Weyrich with Richard Viguerie, we illustrated a Viguerie button and said it was from his 1985 bid for lieutenant governor of Virginia, when he lost the nomination to Marshall Coleman. Yes, Viguerie ran for LG in '85, but he didn't lose to Coleman. In fact, both candidates lost. David Ray of Annandale, Va., has everything you always wanted to know about the 1985 Virginia state convention but were afraid to ask:

There were five candidates for lieutenant governor: Viguerie, Coleman, state Sen. John Chichester, state Del. Pete Giesen and Maurice Dawkins (the GOP Senate nominee against Chuck Robb in 1988).

Coleman was clearly the candidate of the Rockefeller/Linwood Holton [liberal] wing of the GOP. Viguerie was the candidate of the Northern Virginia/Inside-the-Beltway conservative movement types (pro-Life Catholics and other religious fundamentalist Protestant conservatives). Chichester was the "other" conservative in the race -- the candidate of establishmentarian conservatives, business types who leaned conservative, and some former allies of the late Dick Obenshain Chichester was seen as the other committed pro-lifer in the race -- conservative, and NOT a carpetbagger from Northern Virginia.

We then began voting, and each ballot seemed to take forever. The GOP generally uses a majority rule, and there was no provision requiring any candidate to drop out at any time. So we emerged on the first ballot with no winner. I can't remember who led (Viguerie never led, nor did Giesen), but over the next three ballots, I seem to remember there wasn't much movement.

Finally, on the fifth ballot, enough Viguerie conservatives perceived the most important thing was to stop the pro-choice Coleman. Chichester emerged with the nomination. (He went on to lose to Democrat Douglas Wilder -- as you may remember, the Democrats swept all three statewide races that year.)

Well, the name of this blog is indeed Political Junkie, so what did you expect?

By the way, David also came through last October, when a particular Political Junkie column focused on trying to come up with a case prior to 2008 of a senator who was the son of a House member. In 2008, we saw Mark Begich of Alaska elected to the Senate (son of the late Rep. Nick Begich), Mark Udall of Colorado (son of the late Rep. Mo Udall of Arizona), and Tom Udall of New Mexico (son of ex-Rep. Stewart Udall of Arizona).

I could only come up with one from the past: Jon Kyl of Arizona, son of the late Rep. John Kyl of Iowa.

David had one more: Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee, son of the late Rep. Howard Baker Sr., also of Tennessee.

In last week's "It's All Politics" podcast, there was a mention that Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, the former Minnesota Vikings great, would hear or decide the challenge by Norm Coleman to his apparent Senate defeat. Not so, writes John Worrell of St. Paul:

Page's role is to appoint a three-judge panel from the Ramsey County District Court. The panel will hear the evidence and render a ruling, which is then subject to appeal.

Other than that, we've been perfect.