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...

Sure it’s Texas and there’s no question that John McCain is going to win here.  But damn it felt damn good to do this: As we waited in line, Janice was literally a latte-sipping-liberal Obama voter: Precinct judges gave these out as people exited: Seems a little presumptuous after 2000, but I’ve got my fingers...

Democrat Michael Skelly, a Houston wind energy executive, is challenging incumbent Republican Congressman John Culberson in Texas’ 7th Congressional District, which is thought to have a 16 point Republican advantage.   Culberson won reelection in 2006 against Jim Henley (who ran a respectable but poorly funded campaign) 60%-39%.  At the beginning of this...

Janice, Tag, and I live in Houston, which you may have read is not in such great shape.  Friday night was terrifying.  We lost power at around 11:30 and went to sleep.  At 3:30 Saturday morning, we woke up to five smoke detectors chirping throughout our house.  Thankfully, there was no fire, but there was no way to go back to sleep. In short, the night was...