Oh my. IF the GOP kept this seat AND kept the House hilarity would definitely ensue over at DU.
Definitely one to keep an eye on. Think Ronnie Earle will check in to the asylum if this goes down? There's always hope.
" Thirty-six percent said they’d vote for Lampson and 4 percent for Libertarian Bob Smither, who’s also on the ballot.
But 35 percent said they’d vote for a write-in candidate.
“That tells me that they’ve been reading the papers,” Granato said. “They’re up on that. And of course, the next step is, ‘Who’s the write-in candidate you want that’s closest to your preference?’”
The answer: 79 percent of surveyed voters who said they’d write in a candidate said they’d write in Sekula-Gibbs.
“So this barrier of writing her name in is minimized by the fact that they are aware,” Granato said. “So if they even get confused working this machine, they probably can go to a poll worker and try and get it right. And they know who to pick.”
The poll also indicates that Sekula-Gibbs has higher name recognition than Lampson and that in a normal head-to-head competition with her name on the ballot, she would win by double-digits. "
HOLY CANNOLI!!!!
This is BIG news ... it is the #1 pickup for Dems in the nation... It's still a long-shot but "GIBBS" is not hard to write in.
BTW, the funniest part of it is the pathetic showing of Lampson. He's had a free run on this seat - it's his to lose. And he still is at only 36% LOL.
Houston PING
The Comical will be deeply saddened if she wins.
DeLay has been a thorn in their side for a long time. Democrat victory here would be like dancing on his grave.
How many people live in Sugar Land now? I haven't been there since 1985.
President Bush, right, joins Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, center, R- Texas, and Republican congressional candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, left, during a get-out-the-vote rally Monday, Oct. 30, 2006 in Sugar Land, Texas.
Sekula-Gibbs is running against Democrat Nick Lampson for the congressional seat vacated by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
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Bump to the top! Any voters in Delay's district have anything to say about voting today?