A man carries his granddaughter next to picture of ousted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at his house in a "red shirt village" in Sakon Nakhon province May 26, 2011. Ahead of a July 3 national election, dozens of rural communities are branding themselves a "Red Shirt Village" in the poor northeast plateau, home to a third of the country's population, giving the movement grass-roots muscle to mobilise behind its parliamentary allies, the opposition Puea Thai Party. Picture taken May 26, 2011. To match Special Report THAILAND/ELECTION REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)