[a fool in paradise]

It also signals an unmistakable evolutionary step in national politics, one that provides further evidence of a trend that helped make Barack Obama president: growth-oriented communities like the Texas metropolis, rather than aging big cities or nostalgia-inducing small towns, are setting the course of the country's political direction.

Conservatives who stayed home (7% total voter turnout) sent a message that they "can't be bothered".

Even going to the poll and only voting for one or more of the other offices would have sent a message of non-approval.

But none of this really matters to Houston voters. Gotta go Christmas shopping or watch the game on tv. "Why it was in the 40s outside!"

[freekitty]

No. I don’t believe that. The voters are being offered nothing to vote for. The elections are being rigged big time now.

[TheGrimReaper]

I voted for 3 city council spots and controller (although the controller choices were also pathetic)...left the Mayor spot blank. Lying Liberal A or Lying Liberal B? I won’t dignify either of them with a vote.

[Terry Mross]

Houston is not red. The outlying areas are but Houston is blue. That’s why Bill White was mayor and Sheila J Lee is in congress.