Posted on 11/05/2013 5:01:54 AM PST by Bulwinkle
Fairfax,Woodson highschool: at 7am I was voter #109, that's LOW! For the last 18 year I have voted at same time to get a feel for turnout. I'm in a Heavy Dem area.... So there is hope!
My polling place said things were steady there...nothing unusual. In and out in 10 minutes. My conservative neighbors were there so that was good but we are in a majority minority district in our county so it always goes dim.
Signage here has not been the same as for Obozo...saw one bumper sticker for McAwful the whole campaign; not many more for Cuccinelli.
Ken’s been here in Ham Roads but not McFlyful so he’s obviously putting all his chips on the women who are afraid of no birth control, no abortion mill access and women murder in No VA...and McAwful has been such a supporter of women, especially his own wife....
Southwest Virginia voters head to the polls
Voters across the region turned out this morning to cast ballots that will decide who will be Virginia's next governor as well as to decide local races that will, among other things, determine who will serve on school boards and boards of supervisors.
The polls opened at 6 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m.
As of 10 a.m. in Botetourt County, about 16 percent of 23,199 registered voters had cast their ballots. Registrar Phyllis Booze said that the count of absentee ballots suggests that turnout for the 2013 election will likely be similar to turnout for the 2009 election, which also featured a gubernatorial race. That election saw voter turnout in Botetourt County of about 45 percent, Booze said.
Turnout numbers in Montgomery County, as of 10 a.m., showed that 12.9 percent of 58,906 registered voters had cast their ballots, according to Registrar Randy Wertz. Voters at six precincts are using an optical system that requires filling out a paper ballot and scanning them into the system, which provides a paper backup that computer ballots do not.
Roanoke County Registrar Judy Stokes reported that 15.37 percent of 67,224 registered voters had voted as of 10 a.m. "From what we're hearing from our precincts it's not super busy but it's steady," Stokes said.
Dana Oliver, registrar for Salem, said that about 15 percent of 16,567 registered voters had cast ballots as of 10 a.m. Oliver said the absentee ballot count suggests that total turnout for the 2013 election "will be up some" since the gubernatorial election in 2009, when turnout was 44.16 percent.
In Roanoke, turnout as of 10 a.m. was 11.3 percent of 61,673 registered voters. Deputy Registrar Deirdre Martin said the office had not heard of any significant snags at city precincts. She said there was, instead, "typical election day stuff," such as people not being sure where they were registered to vote and a few "quirky (voting) machines that were cranky in the morning."
In Franklin County, where there are several contested races locally, 14.8 percent of 35,127 registered voters had cast ballots as of 11:30 a.m.
PLEASE, do not say that...it's unworthy of a FReeper!!
Rather say, "No worries, the 47% living off the government's hand-outs generously provided by people who work for a living will show up after noon when they get out of bed"...
I admit that's not as elegant phraseology, but is much more accurate, LOL!
Yeah, I cringed when I read that too...
Hardly helpful....
Voter turnout light but steady
As of 10 a.m., voter turnout was 8.77 percent at polling places in Prince William County, according to the county Office of Elections.
Top five precincts in voter turnout (so far) are listed below. Next report due at 3 p.m.
1. Kilby: 19.45 percent
2. Marshall: 16.16 percent
3. McCoart: 15.69 percent
4. Signal Hill: 15.10 percent
5. Washington/Reid: 14.4 percent
didn't see it in my VA Beach precinct but then again the demographics here have changed a bit in the last 20 years. Used to be a solidly conservative neighborhood...can't say the same thing today but my hunch is that Cuccinelli will carry it, and he should carry VA Beach pretty handily.
And NOVA be damned...Virginia Beach is still the biggest city in VA and it's still a conservative Republican bastion.
Cuccinelli, Obenshain rally in the Valley
WEYERS CAVE -- Sensing a voter surge in his direction in the final hours before Tuesday's election, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli made one last Shenandoah Valley stop Sunday to shore up support in friendly GOP territory.
Joining Cuccinelli at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport were Republican attorney general nominee Mark Obenshain, state Republican Party Chairman Pat Mullins and Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte.
Cuccinelli and others who spoke to a medium crowd inside the airport talked of the failures of Obamacare, the lack of a specific platform from Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe and other reasons for rejecting his candidacy.
"I've got a border plan,'' Cuccinelli said at one point. "Let's keep Terry McAuliffe's D.C. politics on the other side of the Potomac."
-PJ
That sounds rather intriguing, I must say...what don't I know?? (I admit, I've paid very little attention to McAuliffe in recent years, but one would hope the good female citizens of Virginia, who apparently poll favorably for Mc'A, would be aware of any issues concerning the actual treatment of a real female person, and not just his boilerplate liberal policy platitudes...)
We really don't need to go there. I resent obama's racial politcs as much as anyone but you're painting with a really broad brush. I know plenty of good, decent middle class blacks in VA who get up and go to work as early as you do! Besides, having the very decent, very conservative and Christian black American E.W. Jackson, on the ballot for Attorney General may turn some of those folks you're disparaging out for our side.
yea, he was front and center blaming Bill’s victims..
bkmk
While this might be considered a “head in the sand” comment, your link to the blog site takes you to The Daily Press blog, The Press being VERY biased and lib. As far as I can tell, with their interviews at polling places in Newport News and elsewhere, the elections done. Everyone they blog about LOVES McAwful...a big reason why we do not get the Daily Depressed in our house anymore...*shaking sand out of head*
About 70% overall black population there...
Cuccinelli has made a career out of surprising nay sayers. He was the underdog in every just about every race he's run...and in every case he's won.
Same here. We only get that paper on the weekends. The leftward turn of that paper in recent years is disgusting. It's owned by Tribune Publishing, the same outfit that owns the Chicago Tribune.
Dispatch from the polls: Mount Ararat Baptist Church in North Stafford
Turnout at the precinct at Mount Ararat Baptist Church in North Stafford was steady Tuesday morning.
Linda Schneider, who volunteered to hand out Republican literature, brought a knitting project to pass the time — but so many voters had come out that she hadn’t made much progress.
“The fact that I’ve only done two rows is a good sign,” said Schneider, who hoped turnout would exceed predictions.
Marguerite Nugent said she came out to support candidates who promised better funding for public schools and solutions to the area’s transportation woes.
She noted that the gubernatorial candidates would have been better served focusing on their messages rather than negative campaigning.
“I’d rather see what their stand is,” Nugent said.
Joseph Harpe said he wasn’t real happy with any of the candidates, but the mess with the Affordable Care Act pushed him solidly into Cuccinelli’s camp.
Meanwhile, Ron and Carolyn Coles said they felt too much had been made of the healthcare law’s early missteps.
“Bad-mouthing the healthcare plan doesn’t help,” Ron Coles said. “The healthcare plan will make or break its own self. If you don’t have any healthcare, that’s a bad plan. If you have a chance to get healthcare, then it’s a good plan.”
The couple also said they supported abortion-rights candidates, noting that Cuccinelli’s opposition to abortion even in cases of incest and rape seemed too extreme.
Dispatches from the polls: Conway Elementary and Dixon-Smith Middle in Stafford County
According to several interviews late in the morning at a pair of Falmouth-area polling sites, Republicans had the edge in the statewide elections. Locally, it seemed like Robert Belman had the edge over M.G. “Meg” Bohmke and Valerie Setzer for the Falmouth District Board of Supervisors seat.
While most people interviewed went for the Republican tickets in the statewide elections, one voter at Dixon-Smith went against the grain in the governor’s race, casting his vote for Independent Robert Sarvis.
Phil Nichols, who works in technology for Stafford County schools, said he usually votes Republican, but he just couldn’t go with either of the major parties in this election.
The 41-year-old didn’t have a lot of information on Sarvis, but said he voted the way he did to avoid “putting a criminal or someone I see as a fascist into office.” He considers Terry McAuliffe to be the criminal and Ken Cuccinelli the fascist.
“I used to be a Republican, but I just can’t get behind people telling people how to live,” he said. “And I can’t vote for a liberal; I just can’t give away my freedoms.”
On the local front, Nichols voted for Belman for supervisor and Mark Kitta for the School Board.
Melissa Cooke, also voting at Dixon-Smith Middle School, said she sided with Belman.
“I liked the interview he gave,” she said, “and he seemed to be reasonable and I liked his opinions and stances.”
As far as the statewide campaigns, Cooke voted “pretty much all Democrats. They all have politics I agree with.”
Sarah Parton, a 51-year-old teacher at Fauquier High School, and her son, Justin Parton, 25, each voted the Republican ticket.
She didn’t like McAuliffe’s fiscal ideas.
“I’m a teacher and I didn’t like what was coming down the pike with McAuliffe,” she said. “Where’s he getting his tax money from?”
At Conway, Maureen O’Neill said she primarily voted Republican. As far as the local races, she voted for Bohmke.
Dispatch from the polls: Hugh Mercer Elementary in Fredericksburg
A sampling of early voters at Hugh Mercer Elementary School in Fredericksburg indicates that the government shutdown and the battle over President Obama’s healthcare reform have impacted statewide and local elections.
Shortly after casting her votes at the city school, LaTrenda Adgers, a Fredericksburg resident and United States Postal Service employee, said she vote for Democrats across the board.
“I feel like Democrats are for the people,” she said, pointing out that she thinks Republicans used the government shutdown to make a political point. “They did not have the peoples’ best interest at heart.”
Ryan Dumond, on the other hand, voted a Republican ticket. The 24-year-old Washington-D.C. firefighter said Democrats and Republicans alike are to blame for the government shutdown. While he wasn’t directly affected by the shutdown, his father and brother, who work as government contractors, didn’t work during the impasse.
Dumond voted Republican because he likes the job current Gov. Bob McDonnell has done. Plus, he said he has always voted Republican.
Dumond, like several other voters, also pointed out that the nature of campaigns, specifically the governor’s race, was disappointing. He said they focused on attack ads rather than promoting candidates’ positions.
The other voters interviewed Tuesday morning in Fredericksburg voted the Democratic ticket.
Arthur Noll, a government contractor who’d just gotten off a midnight shift, was definitively swayed by the government shutdown
“I don’t think I’ll ever get over the crazy damned Tea Party people shutting down the government,” said the 66-year-old contractor for Homeland Security, who wasn’t affected by the shutdown. “I do blame them primarily for it…. It’s nasty business when you start affecting peoples’ lives."
um... where did you see anyone on FR supporting Obama as opposed rino Romney?
McAwful wrote about this in his own book...he left his wife in the hospital in tears giving birth so he could make another fund raiser...or something like that.
Nah, the women of NoVA think about nothing else but their vajayjays and how many people can have access to them without consequence or if there is one, how to quickly get rid of the consequence...it’s the only thing McAwful ever talked about the entire campaign...
*deep sigh*
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