Are early voters turning Harris County TX blue? 40% have voted in early voting and 3 days left!!

[maddezmom]

Are early voters turning Harris County blue?

05:46 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Rucks Russell / 11 News

HOUSTON – More than 427,000 people have voted early so far in Harris County. This is a pace the County has never seen before.

"Next week it will be worse. There will be more people," said Ken Gum, Harris County resident and early voter.

Ken Gum joined the crowd at the West Gray Precinct where early voters had lined up. Some of them had waited up to an hour to cast their ballots, in what many consider to be one of the most anticipated general elections in American history.

"I think the election is really important," said Allison Mercado.

The November 4 election has become unprecedented according to elections officials.

In 1996, only 16 percent of Harris County voters voted early. But in 2000, 23 percent voted early, followed by 37 percent in 2004. However this year, the number of early voters has reached almost 40 percent and there are still three days of early voting remaining.

more:http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/txcn/houston/stories/khou081028_mp_early-voting-red-blue.15a4f4ccf.html


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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. McCainamania?

:rofl:

[maddezmom]

3. LOL....did you post that scary red face pic of McCain earlier?

if you did would you post it again? I think a few of my neighbors are going to look the same way after election day.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Yep. Ask and ye shall receive.

[babylonsister]

2. Yea baby! Go Harris County! Can I dream I might live in

a blue area of TX, finally?!

[maddezmom]

5. I'm dreaming with you

:hug: and I live in Montgomery Cty. :hi:

[RoyGBiv]

6. Wander inside the loop ...

I'm surrounded by Obama Blue. Near Rice I haven't seen a single McCain sticker, lawn sign, etc., not even by St. Thomas. There's a store up on Richmond near Montrose that advertises with a simple sign by the road, "Obama Shirts Sold Here." I went in there a couple weekends ago and chatting up the proprietor while buying my shirt.

No, no one had even inquired about whether they had McCain shirts too.

I know I live in a bubble, but it's a better bubble than where I was before.

[TTUBatfan2008]

4. Big deal if it goes blue...

The state overall is still very red. :(

And I say this as a person from a red area of Harris County (Baytown).

[maddezmom]

8. I think it is a big deal to the democrats that live here

might not be important in the big scheme, but looks like progress to me and that's something we all can be proud of, IMO. :hi:

[rainbow4321]

9. These little blue dots can add up down here though!!

Houston/Galveston, Dallas County, Travis County, southern border areas?..there is no telling what the Dallas suburbs hold, either. Last I heard, our local Dem candidates were ahead, we will see if that it will hold all the way til Nov 4th but to be ahead any stage of the game here is a HUGE deal considering we've always gone 70-30 repuke.
So we take back TX a little piece at a time...we'll get to blue soon enough!

[maddezmom]

10. agree, and I love your spirit

We have to believe in order to succeed. :hug:

[vanderBeth]

11. +Tarrant, El Paso, and Bexar county maybe.

That's a lot of people. I don't know about taking the state, but I think people may be surprised by the Texas results. More dems voted in the primary this year in Texas than they did for the General Election in 2004. :D

[PBS Poll-435]

7. That is great news...

And some of TX-22 is in Harris County!

I don't want Nick Lampson defeated!

[TexasObserver]

13. the GOP goons who have been running the county the past 14 years are worried.

I'm worried that they'll cheat their way to 50.1% by disallowing votes cast.

Bettencourt is a GOP hack.

[Nydari]

14. I'm in Collin County and the Obama signs are mostly gone

I think they were all stolen Sunday night. There were several big Obama signs on open ground near the George Bush highway that were gone yesterday afternoon. I also was used to seeing other very large Obama signs on my drive home and those are all gone, but strangely the Rick Noriega signs are still up.

My neighbors that had out an Obama sign as of Saturday night no longer have it out either (although this might be an HOA issue as it was the only sign I'd seen at all in my neighborhood).