I think I’m going to be annoyed for the rest of my life that I left Texas just in time to miss the state’s biggest Presidential primary fight ever. But this kind of stuff makes me feel better:

The night before, at Quincey’s Irish Pub, just over the Arkansas line, Rendy Oliver and James Estes, two waiters who live on the Texas side and work at a nearby upscale restaurant, Timothy’s, said they were also going to vote for Mr. Obama, though both had voted Republican in the past. Mr. Estes, 34, who served six years in the Army, with tours in the Middle East, said he had decided to cross party lines mostly because of the war in Iraq.

“This is the first time I’ve voted Democrat, ever,” he said, sounding surprised. He said he supported Mr. Obama because he believed he could actually bring about at least some of the change that is the core of his message.

“I see him as a person who is reaching out more to voters without the good old boy system that’s now in effect, screwing up the country,” Mr. Estes said. Of Mrs. Clinton, he said, “I think she still has the obligation to grease the right palm.”

Amen.