Third Base for the Home Run

It was politics meets sports on E-night at the Third Base (I'll spare you the tired sports analogies -- save that fun for the 24-hour newsies), where a throng of folks turned out to watch returns (and the Boston-Houston game).

It was also the site for Travis Co. Pct. 3 Commissioner Gerald Daugherty's E-night party. By the time I got there, however, the GOP contingent was decidedly small and quiet (still, I couldn't find Daugherty in the thinning crowd, milling around an alcove area at the far end of the bar) -- and when CNN called game over and Obama the winner, the crowd was completely drowned out by the shouts of glee. Presumably not so much fun for the McCain/Palin button wearers -- or for fans of Daugherty, who was trailing Dem challenger Karen Huber with just more than 45% of the vote.