DALLAS — On the first day of early voting, politics was not at the top of this city's concerns. 

Instead, residents were obsessed with Ebola, a disease less threatening to their lives, statistically, than the furniture in their homes. 

Ebola panic has calmed a bit since Oct. 20, but continues to color the political conversation. The electoral fate of Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat facing a serious Republican challenger named Ron Natinsky, depends more on his handling of the public health scare than other issues that might have been out front — like his summer offer of housing for ...

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