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November 08, 2006

A few things to feel good about...

  • Diane Henson won! The other 3rd Court candidates came in EXTREMELY close. If they run again, they'll win.

  • No Democratic Incumbent was defeated last night (so will y'all quit worrying about Hopson and Heflin?)

  • Dallas County came into it's own last night. Good job up there in North Texas!

    • On the national front I just saw a press conf with soon to be elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi on CNBC. The reaction of the market seems to be mostly ho-hum. Which makes me laugh my ass off...

    All in all, we did great nationally and even Texas took a few steps forward. However, there are some notable dissappointments:

  • Seaman v.Garcia is way closer than it should have bee and even now remains too close to call

  • More people voted for Hank and Valinda Hathcox than Bell. Idiots. If he'd done as well as they did it would have meant the end of Rick Perry, Buttplug.

  • Analyzing (or, as a certain friend likes to call it, doing the post mortem) the Ag Comm's race is irritating as hell. While the newspaper endorsements hurt (compare Hank to Moody's race) they actually weren't the killer. It was Todd and his giant freal head's last minute TV. It's obvious in the Travis County numbers... he did better here than he should have. 800k and Hank would have been our Ag Commissioner and Democrats would have had their first statewide win in more than a decade.

    • You know, it's kind of surreal... when we started getting the numbers in from the EV in West Texas we were tremendously excited. Shaving the margins was an excellent strategy and even with shitty turnout, it worked better that those tried by the 2002 statewides (tremendously better when you realize Hank's budget was less than 100k). The problem with it is that it depends on the metro's to get their shit together. Dallas, El Paso and Travis are good... just need Harris and Bexar to pull head out of ass. Come on, y'all... we need you.

    Posted by mcblogger at November 8, 2006 01:43 PM

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    Comments

    So many countries, so many customs... Abacuck

    Posted by: Abacuck at November 24, 2006 03:42 AM

    A blind man would be glad to see... Leonard

    Posted by: Leonard at November 24, 2006 03:52 AM

    First think, then speak... Florence

    Posted by: Florence at November 29, 2006 04:34 PM

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