| Sitting here in the DiNovo HQ in Pearland while Martha is prepping her own blog post as we take a break in calling. My phone is elsewhere in the HQ while another one charges, giving me some time to put up a quick post instead of pestering folks in precinct 63.
Martha has a great picture of Dr. Dinovo here. She also has a post up just now, with a picture of me blogging about her post about me blogging about the campaign. Freakish.
McBlogger has probably the most humorous take here.
Capitol Annex brings us this newspaper nugget.
In Brazoria County, 2,223 voters cast their ballots in the first four days of early voting compared to the 4,506 votes cast in the same locations in the first four days of the general election early voting.
But the east Pearland voting box during early voting has generated the same or even more votes than it did during early voting in the general election, which stunned Brazoria County's lead elections clerk Susan Cloudt.
Charles Kuffner gets a post out at Kuff's World at the Houston Chronicle. Texas Kaos also writes about why people here are working hard.
There are about 10 people calling from the HQ here, including TDP staff like Brian Pendleton. The folks from the TDP and from Lampson's campaign have been down here doing a good job of organizing this race. A lot of people once educated are thankful for the calls and head out to vote. There are a few dead folks and some that probably aren't used to getting so many contacts in a short period of time that will hang up on the political phone calls. Of course, saying that you are a friend of Dr. Anthony DiNovo when you start your call usually keeps them on the line a bit longer- if only because they think we're calling from the doctor's office with some grave news of some sort.
Brian mentioned earlier today that some of the precincts had horrific turnout, with noon voting of seven and even just one vote at one area precinct. Other districts in the more populous areas in Pearland had better turnout. There hasn't been any rain in Pearland today though there were reports of some wet weather in Matagorda County before it went back out into the gulf.
We say Weber and O'Day folks at Precinct 63 this morning which seems to be about the most pointless use of resources in an election like this. If anyone is going to show up at the polls, they've already made up their mind and pestering them with leaflets...I'm glad DiNovo resources are being spent getting Democrats to remember to show up and vote by calling them or blockwalking. |
