First Day Voting Figures Are Up

Kinky Friedman, candidate for governor of Texas, has said all along that there must be a larger turnout than the last election, if he is to have a chance of winning. It looks like that larger turnout may be happening. At least the first day's numbers look good. Over at the blog Texas Gone Kinky, the first day numbers are listed for the five largest counties in Texas.

Here is what the numbers look like when compared to the last election:

HARRIS COUNTY
this election.....8545
last election.....5322
up 60.5%

TRAVIS COUNTY
this election.....5009
last election.....4626
up 8.3%

DALLAS COUNTY
this election.....9129
last election.....8172
up 11.7%

TARRANT COUNTY
this election.....7497
last election.....6266
up 19.6%

BEXAR COUNTY
this election.....8195
last election.....5171
up 58.5%

Of course, we'll have to wait until the night of November 7th to know just who these voters are rushing to the polls to vote for, but at least the numbers so far are encouraging.