The signs are good for Harris County Democrats.  Here’s an email I got today from a well-connected local Dem pol: 314,000 citizens have voted in person at the early voting locations. 45,000 citizens have already returned their mail ballots. That’s a total of almost 360,000 early votes with approximately 28,000 mail in ballots sent out but not...

First, a poll: Harris County voters are on the verge of favoring a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 44 years — putting the area out of step with the rest of Texas, according to a Houston Chronicle poll. They gave Barack Obama the edge over Republican John McCain by 7 percentage points this week, with very few undecided or backing...