Well, uh, here we are at the big Election Night bash in the home of our only Park Cities friends. And, uh … nobody else is here. It’s kind of, how you say, awkward. We parked three blocks away because we know how parked up it gets in the Park…
Matt Pulle Although Allen Vaught is still locked in a tight contest with Republican challenger Bill Keffer — it’s Vaught by 51 percent to 46 percent with 43 of 55 precincts reporting — the Democratic state representative doesn’t seem too nervous as the results trickle in. I swear his campaign…
Sam Merten Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey Things are looking bleak for the GOP, but you don’t have to be at the Radisson to know that. We’re still trying to locate Lowell Cannaday, who’s behind 56 percent to 44 percent with 420 of the 708 precincts reporting. But, in the…
With 200 of Dallas County’s 708 precincts reporting, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez maintains her lead over challenger Lowell Cannaday: 313,083 (or 56.24 percent of the vote) to 243,632 (43.76 percent). Sam’s with the Republicans and will have more comments and photos from the GOP un-shindig shortly — only, as…
T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas was, moments ago, in the middle of telling David Gregory on MSNBC that “it’s anybody’s game” and that “in many cases, we’ve underestimated Sen. McCain,” when Gregory broke in with the news: NBC News has called Ohio for Obama. Dallas County now…
State Rep. Allen Vaught Lauren Mish, the youngish campaign manager for Allen Vaught, is confident that her candidate will score a victory over former Lakewood-area state Rep. Bill Keffer, the Republican challenger. Talking to her as she set up her laptop in the front corner of the boisterous Lakewood Tavern,…
Sam Merten The scene at the Radisson Hotel As Dallas County GOP chair Jonathan Neerman told me earlier, a 20-point margin for Barack Obama would amount to an insurmountable lead to overcome for local Republicans. Of course, with early voting showing just that — a 20-point lead for Obama –…
Sam Merten Jonathan Neerman, Dallas County GOP chair If Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman is nervous, he’s not showing it. Since he arrived at the Radisson Hotel around 5:30, he’s calmly been working the room, checking his Blackberry while sipping from a glass of water. Neerman says the…
Brandon Thibodeaux Lowell Cannaday and Lupe Valdez during one of their debates The troops are scattered hither and yon: with the Dems at Bishop Arts, with the Republicans at the Raddison, and we’ve even pulled Pulle back into the fold for a night to hang with Alan Vaught at the…
Daryl Reaugh, the Dallas Stars’ beleaguered-of-late broadcaster and a Canadian to boot, wonders today why Election Day in the U.S. and A. isn’t a national holiday, then makes his case for such. To which he adds: Oh, and since I can’t vote I will use the free time as a…
Elaine Liner As of 11:30 a.m., the Krispy Kreme on Greenville Avenue had given away 343 free doughnuts to folks who said they’d voted. You have your choice of any doughnut, but the most popular today is the sprinkle-topped, star-shaped glazed pictured at right. And children of voters are getting…
Ran into Ron Kirk just now at the Lakewood Starbucks. Our former mayor and one-time Democratic U.S. Senate candidate (and, of course, a real big Barack Obama worker) did a double-take upon seeing his favorite Dallas Observer columnist, latte in hand. He said, “Oh, man, this is Election Day. Don’t…
This brief from The Onion this morning, which more or less reads like the Newsweek piece referenced below. –Robert Wilonsky WASHINGTON — In a press conference held this morning on the White House lawn, President Bush formally asked the assembled press corps and members of his own administration if, in…
As we prepare to adios George W. Bush from office, Newsweek wonders whether he’s bothered by the mean things John McCain’s been saying about him from the stump. Or whether it means anything to Dubya that he’ll leave the White House with “the lowest approval ratings of any modern president.”…
Alexander Flores From art director Alexander Flores, who almost never sees sunrise: At the Village Country Club at around 7:30 a.m., the line was long for a few of the other precincts set up there, but for 1213, my precinct, no line at all, which makes me wonder what the…
[Editor’s note: Apologies to Friends of Unfair Park who tried to post comments earlier this morning; they were stuck in a dead server, which also delayed posting and which has since been repaired. So I’ve been promised.] Took all of three minutes to vote this morning at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary…
Hands down, the best-made T-shirt in the dresser remains the “Perot for President” tee I bought from a street-corner salesman as a gag, swear, in the final days of the 1992 campaign. Sixteen years and countless wearings and washings later, the thing still looks brand-new; not so much Ross Perot,…
Bruce Sherbet, Dallas County’s elections administrator, will leave his office this evening at about 5, 5:30, like any other day. He will grab dinner, do some reading and try to fall asleep by 11 p.m. But he fears he won’t be so fortunate. Already, he has “night-before jitters,” as he…
With early voting wrapping up yesterday, we contacted Kirk McPike, Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s campaign manager and number-cruncher for local Democrats, for the latest on what the party is forecasting. He says Democratic-aligned precincts in general are outvoting the trends in terms of percentage of the vote from 2006 when the…
Yesterday, Vince Leibowitz posted to Burnt Orange Report a flier Republican Bill Keffer sent to would-be voters in Texas House District 107 in East Dallas, in which he attempts to link his opponent, Democratic state Rep. Allen Vaught, to some scary-looking dudes. You can see what Leibowitz brands the “racist…
Sam Merten In true lawyerly fashion, Tom Perkins knows nothin’ ‘bout nothin’. If you thought we couldn’t possibly have left anything of interest out of Tuesday’s lengthy post regarding last week’s city council meeting, there’s one tidbit we’ve been following. Turns out Mayor Leppert kept council member Mitchell Rasansky from…
On Politico.com this morning, Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Matt Drudge’s post concerning the campaign’s giving The Dallas Morning News — along with the New York Post and The Washington Times — the heave-ho from the campaign plane. Says Burton: “We’re trying to reach as many swing voters that we…
