I'm so TICKED. Chronicle reporting fewer democrats will be voting due to

displacement by Ike, thereby endangering what chances we had of making dem gains in this state. Actually, there will be fewer voters of all stripes, but the democrats were hit harder.

I am SO PISSED.

Here's the link to the story online:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6006004.html

The island, whose residents tend to vote Democratic, is divided between two state Senate districts, both of which are contested in the Nov. 4 election.
The storm scattered thousands of Galveston voters, and nobody knows whether they will be able to return home before Election Day. They can vote from afar by mail, but will they? Or will they be too busy trying to reassemble their lives?
"I do think it (Ike) has the potential of altering the political landscape," said Kelly Fero, a consultant for former Galveston City Councilman Joe Jaworski, a Democrat seeking to unseat state Sen. Mike Jackson, R-La Porte, in District 11.
"It's the Democratic part of the Jackson district, and it's gone," Fero said.

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For those who are unaware, the historic older areas of Galveston includes a lot of black residents. Permanent, voting residents.

I'll try to find the link

Were the hardest hit areas blue counties or something? Wouldn't there be a lot of republicans displaced by the hurricane too? I would have thought that beachfront property would be more red than blue.

and in this state, that means those voters are probably republican and registered to vote at their primary residences. Sure, a lot of folks call Galveston home, but many of those people are poorer or middle class.