Texas has been a reliably "red" state since 1980. In 2004, George W. Bush won the state by a margin of 61 percent to 38 percent over John Kerry. But over the past several weeks, a surprising number of Obama signs have been springing up in traditionally Republican neighborhoods.
Last Monday, record numbers of early voters packed polling locations from Houston to El Paso in what officials said could likely be the start of an unprecedented election turnout in Texas.
Anxious voters, many with the nation's crumbling economy on their minds, smashed first-day early voting records before lunchtime around big cities like Houston and San Antonio. Then more kept coming.
Harris County finished Monday with a record 39,201 early voters, an 88 percent increase from the first-day turnout in 2004. Dallas County hit a record of 34,421 voters upstaging the last record in 1996 of 21,960 early voters.
Impossible to draw any conclusions, but it does make for interesting times...
Very restrained, CT, but I can see the hope and the secret glee that something different will occur in Texas this time. Well, if Texas goes for Obama and Cornyn loses, then the Democrats better deliver in the next two years ... And, they's better make sure they charge the recession/depression to the Repubs.
Posted by: pausanias | October 27, 2008 at 09:50 PM