thanks for the input.
Good news, hopefully the GOP will pick up a Senate seat there.
I wonder if this will play into the election and if Romney wins by a comfortable margin if it will become a meme to delegitimize his election. It's ridiculous enough that it does qualify in the top 10 list.
You have to realize, still, that TANF,EITC’ers, WICs, Section 8, SNAPs, don’t get up at 6:30 AM....why the hell should they when their EBTs get charged up automatically?
They ain’t gotta be no place that early!
I’m in a Red part of CT and turnout seemed higher than last time. But we are outnumbered by dems in this state so much that if Romney wins Connecticut you can light up that cigar. It will be over for mister Hope and Change.
I had the same experience this morning when I voted in Hudson County NJ. Very bluest part of the state. Four years ago, at least 50-60 people were in line at 6 AM. This morning, no line at all.
I spoke w/ my Cousin the Uber Law Enforcement dude and Conservative back in the Nutmeg State, and he is not seeing what I see here in Michigan.
And that is a fervor or grassroots to throw the bumbs out, I.E. the Tea-Parties, 912 Project etc.
My fear is all those with that mindset already left for Georgia, NC, SC etc and all that is left other than a handful of Conservatives such as yourself and the rest are a bunch of mind-numbed-Dembots...
What convinces you that it was an “obama tidal wave”? You were there and how do you know there weren’t some like minded Americans that were voting for Romney?
Keep in eye on Bridgeport. That’s where they manufactured votes in the past. I hope their are GOP poll watchers. Don’t want any more late night boxes of votes magically appearing there.
i found it kinda interesting that romney was running ads in CT as if it was in play...
Pray for rain so even less will turn out.
Good report. I was wondering how things would go on the coast.
I’m here in purple north-central CT. We went Obama in 2008 (barely). Same level of traffic as before.
The line at my polling place at 6:00 am in Norwalk, CT was only 1/3 the size that it was in ‘08. Different mood too - in ‘08, the early morning crowd was jovial and optimistic, this morning people had their game faces on. I know that I would have crawled over broken glass to vote.
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.
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.
“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.
Ansonia CT. Voting is always fast and easy at the local school. 2008 had to wait 5 min, today zero wait @ 9am I was ballot 366.
Locally all R/R Yard signs not one Obama sign in the whole town - there was one Obama bumper sticker in the parking lot.
I have voted here for the last 20 years but we are always out numbered hope it makes a difference this year.
Last election Rosa DeLauro was hanging around the parking lot she was coming over to talk to me but I gave her a look that stopped her in her tracks and she turned around and went the other way.
Heh. You should check back in the late afternoon when the dens offer freebies to the bums...you’re way too early. Working people vote that early!
East central Illinois here. Red area in a blue county (Champaign). Usually work at the polls, but have a conflict this year. The parking lot was full, but no line. They replaced the books with laptops & decreased the lookup time by 90% or more. Any wait was for an available voting booth.
I expect 70% pubby vote in this precinct.