Posted on 11/06/2012 5:23:46 AM PST by PizzaTheHut
In 2008, at around 6:45 AM, in my local polling place in Fairfield, CT, there was a line that went 100 feet down the length of a school hallway and it took about 1/2 hour to get my ballot. Never saw it that crowded. This was the Obama tidal wave.
In 2012, at around 6:45 AM at the same polling place, there were 5 people ahead of me in line. Oh wait, it gets better. Since there are still power outages, this polling place is serving 2 other local districts as well. So, it's 3 polling places in one. Yet, virtually no wait.
Of course, CT is still solid blue and will stay that way, but I just saw first hand of Dem enthusiam being down.
Anyway, I'll be praying for a Romney/Ryan win.
God Bless.
I voted early to beat the long lines, this is 'Pubbie country!
We’re in Florida, a heavily blue precinct. I voted by mail a few weeks ago, but our son lives in the same precinct, and he went over at 7:15 and was on his work to work at 7:45. Last Presidential election we waited for nearly an hour to vote.
I would have expected much longer lines because the ballot is LONG (4 pages) and it took us quite awhile to mark ours at home, and we had already researched the 11 Amendments on the ballot. But we’ve had early voting and the waits have been 2-4 hours, so maybe everyone has already voted.
At our polling place, you stand outside (it’s raining here, but not heavy) and they let you into the polling place in small groups. Interesting method this time, the poll worker at the door was calling for folks whose name ended in a certain alphabet section, as soon as he’d see a particular “alphabet” table was empty (it was not first come, first served.) Since the check in lines are divided into four sections of the alphabet and each line has the check in book for only their portion of the alphabet, they were calling folks out of line when a certain “letter” check in person had no line They’ve never done it that way before, but it does make some sense. I don’t think it would help your individual time, and it would move the line along quicker because each poll worker is always serving someone.
The towns that surround Waterbury are deep red. Watertown, Oxford, etc.
Their voting record is redder than Texas.
I’m off to my polling place in New Milford shortly...it should be interesting...will report back.
I’m in a red county in a blue state (sounds like a country song, eh?). I’ll look for longer lines at my polling place.
Ooops - I shouldn’t even be commenting on anything. I’m about to jump outta my skin with anxiety until this day is over!!!
They've been doing it that way in my township for years. It works, except for 6am this morning, when 37 T-Z's showed-up ahead of me. :(
Waterbury has been a red city. I remember Reagan came there in 1984!
Same situation for me in Maryland — in a red area, but my vote never counts.
Same situation for me in Maryland — in a red area, but my vote never counts.
CT is the bedroom of the NY lawyers, and they depend on leftist politics for their bread and butter.
Redding went 58.3-41.7 Obama-McCain in 2008 (101st of 169 most conservative in CT)
Litchfield went 52.0-48.0 Obama-McCain in 2008 (38th of 169 most conservative in CT)
2008 we walked right in and voted with about 5 other people when the polls opened at 7AM
This morning we stood in a line before the polls opened.
When we got in the line, there were 113 people.
When we got done voting the line was the same length as when we went in.
But there was a line of cars waiting for a place to park as the lot was full.
Strangest thing, though, there were no Romney or Obama signs in the grassy areas as usual, or Dumbrats or "Pubbie signs, only local candidate signs.
He thought that because he was talking about 2008 not 2012. What else would it have been in 2008? His point was that the lines were huge in 2008 in a very blue precinct and nobody there this morning in 2012. That is a good thing for us!
Same here. I'm thinking about reworking the old dem Chicago strategy into "Drink early and often." I just checked--it actually IS 5 pm someplace--Baghdad for one. Maybe I'll start with a Bloody Mary, just to take the edge off.
“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of Socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.”
- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959.
They just returned. No line at all. Extremely different from 4 years ago, when it was an hour wait almost all day long. Plus our polling place covers a larger area this year as well.
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