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Barack Obama's election night address from Grant Park in his home city of Chicago:

From The Huffington Post

Here is a handy dandy guide to watching election night. The East Coast states will report first. If John McCain is going to win, then he will win Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. And then it will take the rest of the night to figure out if he still has enough electoral votes. Obama's victory could be a lot easier to figure out.

If Obama wins Virginia - it's over. That simple. ...

From the Fort Bend Star:

The dirty politics in State Senate District 17 uncharacteristically bubbled over in a candidate forum sponsored by the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce this past week at Sugar Creek Country Club. This following story is why the Republican party is facing a long winter of discontent.

From the Houston Chronicle, 10/21/2008:

Two Democratic attorneys are aiming to take the benches of two Republican state district judges in Fort Bend County.

Missouri City Democrat Milton Flick, 64, is challenging 400th District Court judge Cliff Vacek, 61, a Sugar Land Republican. Vacek was elected to the bench in 2004 after being appointed to the post by Gov. Rick Perry to fill the unexpired term of his predecessor Bradley Smith.

In the 434th District Court, Sugar Land Democrat Albert Hollan, 52, is opposing Missouri City Republican Jim Shoemake, 62, who was appointed to the bench by Perry when the state Legislature created the court in 2007.

Echoing the presidential race’s theme of change, both Democratic candidates see a need for “checks and balances” in the county court system, which they say is dominated by Republicans.

Read more: Two Democrats...

• There is a FALSE rumor going around by e-mail telling people that if they vote Straight Democratic Party, they must also cast a vote specifically for Barack Obama in order to have an Obama vote registered. THIS IS FALSE INFORMATION. The truth is that if you cast a Straight Democratic Party vote, you will be voting for Barack Obama and your Straight Democratic vote will count as a vote for Obama. But if you then go down select Obama, you may actually be cancelling your Obama vote.

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It seems that a lot of people have been coming to the Fort Bend Democrats website looking for the location of the Texas Barack Obama campaign headquarters. According to the BarackObama.com website, there are two Texas offices. One in Austin, and one just up the Southwest freeway in Houston:

Houston Obama Headquarters
3710 Travis St.
Houston, TX 77002

Valleé Ross is the Salutorian for the Class of 2008 at Lamar Consolidated High School.

She is the daughter of Marie Maltbie of Sugar Land. Valleé graduated with a grade point average of 110.440 and plans to attend the University of Texas in Austin.

While at Lamar she earned academic honors in Human Geography, World History, U.S. History, Economics, Biology, English and Spanish. Valleé is an Advanced Placement Scholar with Honors and earned the National Honor Society Shining Star Award.