The Discerning Texan
-- Edmund Burke
Monday, October 30, 2006
Attention Elites: Dems attempt to "steal" Texas House seat may Fail
And since I learned of this judicial travesty--and I am not making this up--I have continued to think "what if Sekula-Gibbs actually WINS this race." It would be a huge "in your face" to Texas Dems whose whole Delay witch-hunt seemed to be designed to steal a Congressional seat that did not represent the will of the people in its District (something that Texas Democrats have been quite accustomed to doing over the years)...
Therefore, when I saw this on the Fox News site, I must admit to not only being really pumped up by the good news, but also feeling somewhat vindicated in that I gave my fellow Texas Republicans a lot more credit than the Elitist Media seemed willing to do:
HOUSTON — In the race for the congressional seat
once held by former Rep. Tom DeLay, the same number of likely voters said they would vote for a write-in candidate as for the Democratic nominee, according to a new poll.Thirty-five percent of respondents said they would vote for a write-in candidate, a statistical tie with the 36 percent support for Democrat Nick Lampson, according to the poll of likely voters in the Houston area's 22nd Congressional District.
Of the respondents who said they'd choose a write-in candidate, 79 percent said they planned to name Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, a Houston city councilwoman backed by the Republican Party.
Twenty-five percent of surveyed voters said they were still undecided.
"Both candidates seem to be swimming upstream here," said pollster John Zogby, president of Zogby International, which conducted the poll. "What's clear on one hand, is Nick Lampson seems to have had the opportunity and has not closed the deal just yet. On the same token, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs has a great opportunity in a Republican district."
The poll was conducted for the Houston Chronicle and KHOU-TV and appeared on their Web sites Sunday night.
The poll also shows that 62 percent of respondents were aware that there's a write-in candidate. Sixty-one percent said they know how to cast a write-in vote.
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Fifty-two percent of poll respondents identified themselves as Republicans, 32 percent as Democrats and 16 percent as independent.
"Punditry was coloring the district blue. It's still a Republican district. Even harder than selling a write-in, is selling a Democrat in this district," Zogby said.
DeLay, the former House majority leader, resigned from Congress in June amid legal and ethical problems. He had already won the GOP nomination for his district. But the courts refused to allow Republicans to replace him on the ballot, forcing them to turn to a write-in candidate.
Sekula-Gibbs said the poll results show that Lampson is a weak candidate. "I think we are at the top of the hill. We are ready to plant the flag," she said.
If I were Sheila's campaign advisor, my advice for the first words of her victory speech would be: "Hey Ronnie Earle: Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it..."
