I was hoping someone would post a Maryland thread.
My experience is similar. I live in an unincorporated hamlet of less than 8,000 in Anne Arundel County. Our precinct is pretty red - 60% McCain in 08, 62% Bush in 04, 65% Ehrlich in 10, 65% - 70% for hopeless congressional and senatorial candidates and local candidates. Our precinct is over 90% white, affluent, highly-educated.
Never waited more than five or ten minutes to vote, except in 08 when I waited a little longer in a line of maybe 20 folks. I always vote mid-morning on election day.
Well, went down to the volunteer firehouse around 10:15 like I do every year. Couldn’t fine parking. Had to park illegally.
Got in the door - there are three lines of around 20 folks each to get to the election judges to get our little plastic voting card, and then another 40 or 50 people waiting in line to get into the voting machines. Over 100 folks! It’s been like this since we opened at 7 am, says one of the election judges. 450 folks have voted (out of about 2100) so far in three and a half hours, they tell me (do the math - even without counting early voting, which was very heavy this year, that’s nearly 85% turnout over the course of the day, IF IT DOESN’T PICK UP DURING THE AFTER-WORK HOURS!). When I left, there was a line outside to get into the firehouse.
It took nearly an hour for me to vote. A truly unreal experience in my little red corner of a deeply blue state.
I have no expectation that Gov. Romney will win Maryland, but if we’re seeing this kind of Republican precinct turnout HERE, what does it mean in Ohio? Pennsylvania? Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan??
There may be a reason why Romney is campaigning in Obama territory and Obama is campaigning in,... well,... Obama territory.
Voted at 7:45am this morning in mostly red North Carroll area - no line at all.