Early voting began in Texas on Monday, with long lines reported at several polling locations in Corpus Christi, including the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center.<\/p>\n
Among those casting their ballots on the first day was Jesus Esparza, who said he believes voting is the first step toward making change.<\/p>\n
“You know, our country and city come first. They do have a duty to the citizens, also the citizens do have a duty to the community,” Esparza said.<\/p>\n
Esparza also weighed in on the role political advertisements play in motivating voters. While the ads can help inform the public, he said the volume can become excessive.<\/p>\n
“Maybe about five everyday at least. More so today, actually,” Esparza said.<\/p>\n
Political analyst Dr. Bill Chriss said he has been paying close attention to the effects of political advertising, particularly ads funded by political action committees.<\/p>\n
“When I see it’s a PAC Ad or an attack ad I just turn the sound off I won’t watch them,” Chriss said.<\/p>\n
Chriss said ads funded by candidates tend to be more positive, while those funded by political action committees often focus on attacking opponents.<\/p>\n
“The adds that are run by candidates, tend to be more positive, then the adds that are run by PACS, political action committees. They will tend to attack someone they don’t like. And I think that’s turning a lot of people off,” he said.<\/p>\n
Chriss said voters should focus on candidates’ qualifications when deciding how to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n
“I’m more interested in what people have to say in why I should vote for them, then why I should vote against the other guy,” he said.<\/p>\n
Early voting in Texas runs through Oct. 30.<\/p>\n
In Nueces County, early voting hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week. Hours will change to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting began in Texas on Monday, with long lines reported at several polling locations in Corpus Christi,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-471343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}