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To find out your precinct voting location, go here:

http://team.sos.state.tx.us/voterws/viw/faces/SearchSelectionPolling.jsp

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Danni and I have now been to:

Del Rio
Laredo
Kingsville
Corpus Christi
Portland
Beeville
Goliad
Victoria
Angleton
Galveston
Beaumont
Lufkin
Longview
Tyler
Texarkana
Paris
Sherman
Wichita Falls
Amarillo
Lubbock
Big Spring
Midland
Odessa
San Angelo
Abilene
Brownwood
Waco

In all of those places we’ve encountered considerable support. In all of those places we’ve talked to random people who’ve wandered over to us because the Gov Bug is pink and I radiate sex and told us that they’re voting for Kinky, that their entire office is voting for Kinky, that their hardcore Republican grandparents already voted for Kinky, etc. These are places where the Democratic organization is supposed to be ironclad, where Chris Bell stopped running commercials he was so sure he had the county locked up. This is supposedly Perry country, where a candidate like Kinky has no hope of making even the smallest inroads. But none of those suppositions are true: all of Texas is Kinky country, and is Kinky country in a way conventional polls just aren’t showing.

There comes a point in time when we will have exhausted all means of showing Texans how important this gubernatorial election is for Texas, America, and the world, and that day is approaching exponentially faster than Rick Perry’s receding hair line.

Kinky Friedman has overcome all odds stacked against him. Getting on the ballot despite critics saying he wouldn’t, amassing a base of independents although critics said he couldn’t, surging in likely voter polls which critics argued he wouldn’t, leading hands down in most other polls that don’t target the 29% that voted in 2002, out fundraising the Democratic challenger which appeared to be unlikely, and now there is only one obstacle left to hurdle. Earning more votes than the other candidates. That’s what this races comes down to. While other candidates believe votes automatically belong to a certain party, Kinky Friedman believes votes are earned and belong to the people of Texas. We’re all independents at heart.

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Rob 1:30pm

Next stop Austin HQ, well the restroom first. Then food. Then Austin HQ after we pump gas. My brakes are totally messed up so a fellow Kinky fan from San Antonio, Laura is giving me a ride up to Austin. Big thanks. I’m so excited to meet Kinky Staffers and Crew at HQ and maybe they’ll have something fun for me to do. I hear the Kinkster’s going to be there watching the returns. Hopefully my wireless works. Stick around.

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Cody, Rob, and Jeremy will be at the victory party in Austin trying to bring continuous coverage through live blogging and videos if we can. Stick around. It should be pretty interesting.

History books baby. History books.

Will you be there? Try to find us.

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We’ll be at the victory party in Austin on November 7th. Make plans, car pool, pitch in with fellow Kinksters to get a room because it’s going to be a wild night. You won’t regret it.

If you missed the rallies: Check out the Video Vault and watch them.

Watch the coverage and comment about it here. Share your local coverage and radio and TV polls.

From the KinkyFriedman.com website:

Grammy Award-winning Artist Little Joe, friend of the campaign and Kinky supporter, is asking Texans to vote for the only candidate with “the best interests of the people of Texas at heart.

“It’s simple. I think everyone should support him because he’s honest and he’s the best choice for our state.”

Watch KTSA personality and #1 talk show host in San Antonio, Chris Duel, vote for the Kinkster. Chris Duel has been a huge part of Kinky’s voice in San Antonio and throughout 99 counties in Texas. The Chris Duel Show is on 550AM, Monday-Friday, 4pm-7pm in Bexar and surrounding counties. Chris has had Kinky on his show every Thursday for months. We fellow Kinksters thank Chris and all the folks from The Chris Duel Show for all of your passion, hard work and effort you’ve put in doing your part to help inform people.

Early voting ends on November 3rd, and turnout is still substantially greater than 2002. This war against apathy that Kinky Friedman waged appears to be a winnable battle after all. It seems when people are given a choice, they take it. (click for larger image)

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A less ass-originating analysis: the enthusiasm and drive of Kinky’s county coordinators has Kinky yard signs and knowledge about what he stands for out in counties that aren’t officially organized, while Chris Bell has no presence in counties Democrats have counted on generating big numbers from for decades. Kinky doesn’t need a machine to get people to the polls, he just needs the network of friends he’s been making over two years of campaigning to get as many off their likeminded friends to the polls as possible. So let’s continue to do that, and in so doing knock the idea that you need to have an enormous warchest or the support of a major party to run for office out for the count.

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