Posted: 10/21/2008 11:40:08 AM EDT
|
Stood in line for about 25 minutes for early voting at City Hall. The people were mostly old and mostly white. There were a few blacks and very, very few young people. The demographics for my city are: Latino 31.2% White 48.3% Black 10.2% Asian 8.2% Other 1.3% Median income is $56,000 Median Age is 30 Population is over 190,000 I don't know if this is indicative of early voting, or representative of voting trends in general. I know that "the youth vote" is generally a fairy tale though. I voted a straight Republican ticket, and I expect Texas Republicans to do very well this year. Texas is going to go for McCain and the turnout already seems to be big. I am hoping that my county will be getting a new Republican, NFA friendly sheriff and that we can displace many of the Democrat judges that swept in last time. Senator Cornyn will win re-election, as will my Representative. There was a bond issue to improve the hospital that I voted for and I broke down and voted against allowing off premise beer and wine sales. My neighborhood is on the cusp of being a ghetto as it is. I can't buy gas without getting harassed by pan handlers and the last thing I want is to attract more winos. Let them go to the next county and buy alcohol. That's what I do. |
Remember what I said to you in an earlier thread? |