By Maggie Lineback

8:45 am ET: We are cursed. Our first live shot was supposed to be at 6am at a 24 hour coffee shop called Cafe Brazil. It’s in the Uptown section of Dallas. When we arrived, it was coming down so hard we could barely see the road. Apparently, the Election Link Vehicle is cantankerous when it comes to weather. We beg. We plead. No dice. I feel like if we just get out of Dallas, our luck will change.

9:33 am ET: Hurrah! Live television. It was only a thirty second hit but we actually made it.

We are in Waxahachie, TX which is about 30 miles south of Dallas. There’s a quaint town square with a big courthouse. We stopped in to the Courthouse Cafe where locals are grabbing breakfast and a cup of coffee. That sounds like what we will do right after Kris Gutierrez does a radio hit. There is nothing like chicken fried steak for breakfast!

12:12 ET: Every once in a while you come across something completely unexpected.

For example, you wouldn’t expect to find a large Czech population in say, Texas, but pull into West, TX and before you can say Jak Se Mas (how are you?) you’d be disabused of that notion. Apparently a good percent of the people here can trace their roots back to Czech farmers, ranchers and shopkeepers who settled in the area en masse in the 1890s.

The highlight of West for most travelers is the Czech stop and Little Czech Bakery. And the highlight of the bakery is a delicious little concoction called the Kolache. It’s a special type of dough filled with savory or sweet stuff. The sausage and cheese kolache is the big seller.

Evelyn in the bakery says she will be heading out to vote tomorrow. She will also be attending a caucus for the first time and she’s pretty excited about it. She won’t be alone. In bigger counties some of the caucus organizers are worried there won’t be room for everybody at some locations.

We’re getting pea-sized hail. As previous noted, all sorts of things seem to go wrong with ELV in weather. Now the “link wireless” that less us ditch cables is on the fritz. So we are going old school and hooking the camera to the Election Link Vehicle.

Read all ELV Blogs >>