Nothing against your wife or anything, but 'because traffic sucked when he came to town'? That's kind of a dumb reason to not vote for someone... oh wait, "because he's black," that's a dumb reason to vote for someone, but people still do it.
She's Irish. Get her pissed and she will kill you, your sons and your grandsons in retribution.
Just gotta roll with it, sometimes. Bush should have known better.
Edit: Besides, this was Texas. It's not like Bush was gonna have a close call there anyway.