You may have read that Texas congressional districts were redrawn for this election in an unusual move that tended to favor Republicans. As it happens the district I live in now pits two incumbents against one another - Pete Sessions and Martin Frost. Neither one of them was the congressman for this area last term.

What surprises me are the yard signs this race has generated. It seems that practially every other house has a yard sign. And not just those 18-inch wide signs. Lots of folks have BIG signs - mini billboards - in their yards. Driving down the street I feel like they are yelling at me.

The signs for the two congressman far outnumber the yard signs for the presidential race. That may be because there is not much doubt who is going to win the presidential vote around here. From what I can tell the congressional race is somewhat closer. By my informal count the Frost signs seem to have a slight edge in numbers. It could be that his supporters are putting out an extra number of signs just in case. After all Sessions was accused in an earlier race of stealing his opponents signs.