Posted on 10/14/2020 12:44:41 PM PDT by bort
My wife and I will vote on Nov. 3rd . Two confirmed votes for the President of the people Donald J Trump!
Bexar County, Texas (San Antonio). Yesterday, I passed by one of the early voting sites located in a tiny town named Shavano Park (it was surrounded by San Antonio years ago as the city kept annexing more and more previously unincorporated territory).
Anyway, this is a fairly conservative area, mostly white and maybe 20% Hispanic. Probably 65% - 70% Trump voters in 2016. It was JAMMED! The entire lot was filled; parked cars were lining the road (NW Military Hwy) for at least 100 yards in one direction, and for about 1/4 mile in the other. Note that this was the first day of early voting, and it was at lunch hour...but in my experience in the area (going back about 20 years), I have never seen it so crowded.
General scuttlebutt that I’ve heard over the past few months is that Trump is going to get a LOT of Hispanics, and that a lot of moderate Dems (we actually have those in Texas, not too many Communists like in NY and CA) simply cannot stand the AOC/Bernie wing of the party and think that they have absolutely lost their minds. Trump signs and bumper stickers outnumber Hiden’ and Spread’em signs by a large margin. Note that Bexar County will still go for the Dems - it is principally a city - but my area of town is decidedly whiter, more suburban, and most definitely more conservative. This very high turnout gives me a lot of hope.
I am planning to vote tomorrow with SWMBO, and I will report back about how crowded it is then.
Never seen this big of voter turnout in my life.
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Keep in mind that a lot of people aren’t working and many I’m
sure are getting an early start on voting. JMO
Just for fun if you have time and want to make a drive on Sunday
afternoon after church services are complete. Go by the voting
stations and see what the turn out looks like. I know some churches
make a special day of morning service, dinner on the ground and
voting afterwards.
“A fair number of blacks in BLM and “anti-Trump as *@(&” along with whites, Hispanics and Asians in other garb.”
“Early voting is risky. If you cast your vote and then your candidate dies/suffers a stroke/has a major scandal you’ve pretty much wasted your vote.”
FWIW, I understand your point - but precious few candidates have had this happen; however, quite a number of people die in the last 2-3 weeks before an election. Just saying.
Oregon is 100% vote by mail. We haven’t received our ballots yet. They are being mailed out tomorrow.
“For those of us who don’t live in TX, please explain what this means? Good or bad news?”
I’ll never vote for a Democrat anyway, so what does it matter?
2. Location... Georgia, Gwinnett County, Lawrenceville is residence. EV in Buford.
3. Precinct is Red biased. County as a whole is very Red.
4. Voter Impressions... In general, the the county is middle class to the south and higher income to the north. I reside and voted in the north. The demographic in the EV line was completely mixed white, black, Asian, Hispanic and European as typical for the county. Ages from teen to very elderly with probably 25-70yo constituting the majority. About even split male to female. Location was not in walkable distance for most so folks drove in. One young woman skateboarded to the location. Cool.
5. Delay... There was about a 30 minute slowdown then total stop to voting due to computer issue. When it was fixed, the line speed perked back up. For me, I was at the registration desk for about 2min. The 2-person desk was very professional and cordial and the 2 workers efficiently did their work while crosstalking to each other to exchange information and verify actions to each other. Note that GA is very rigid on having a government ID to vote and this must be verified to the voter registration via computer scan before the 1-use voting machine card can be issued. Ergonomics and functionality of voting machines excellent, a paper copy was generated and at a separate workstation, this paper ballot was scanned with notification that the ballot votes were logged. No one touched the ballot other than myself.
6. General... Gwinnett County is the northeastern corner of Atlanta metro, very Red and probably the largest republican bloc in the state. Our large republican majority is a key counterbalance to democratic Fulton county in central to south Atlanta metro. In general, Gwinnett County + rural Georgia votes are key to Red success for state wide and federal offices plus legislator control. Other major zones are Savannah and Macon areas plus industrial corridors I-75 north Atlanta to Tennessee and I-85 south Atlanta to Alabama.
You can just see the crazy in those eyes.
One of my buddies kids friends dad got set up on a date with her several years ago. He said she is nutty as a squirrel turd. Voting against her was one of the things that really motivated me. That and the gambling amendments. Trump will win Nebraska, Sasse will get re-elected but having that moonbat Eastman be my congressional representative is a hard pass. One of my friends neighbors is a volunteer for Bacon and said some of their internal polling is pretty troubling.
Just an correction to my first post. Sarpy county in Nebraska is a reliably red county. Sorry about that. Long day working in my basement office.
A generic African flag colored raised fist on a T-shirt could be considered ethnic, not political. An “Anti-trump as F-k” shirt is clearly political, but no one criticized it. I know that, because she was just ahead of me in line and allowed right in.
High turn out in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but a mix of red and blue.
We only have one place open in Franklin County, TN - a Red county - for early voting. I didn’t vote today but spent the afternoon at the Republican women’s group’s tent that we set up outside.
The wait in line was about an hour and it was like that all day long. We’ve never seen it that busy. How long will the momentum last? Who knows? We’re a rural county so the population isn’t overly large. I can’t wait to get today’s turnout numbers tomorrow.
Demographics - primarily whites, I’d say most were 30 on up with a lot of elderly. Pretty much equal male and female.
Based on the lack of dirty looks we got from people going in or out - LOL - I’d say today was a primarily “R” turnout. We’ll see when the dems decide to show up.
It was an exciting day and I’m looking forward to tomorrow.
I read that Ft Bend County (SW of Houston) had glitches, on the voting machines, for the first few hours, of first day of early voting.
They said the machines had not been changed from 10/19 (which was supposed to be first day of EV), to the 10/13 date.
Everyone I talked to, who voted yesterday (our area is also conservative), said they had long lines.
I’m worried about this, though. If all the Trump voters decide to wait until Election Day, and then they go after work on Tues Nov 3rd, the lines may be hours long and they won’t make it to 8 pm.
I’m still torn about it. I plan to get in line early in the morning, but then again I don’t want to wait for hours to vote.
I also don’t want to vote absentee, by mail or drop box, because they may toss my ballot for “non matching signatures.” I have my ballot in my house already but not sure how to proceed.
What I’d like to do is a drop box without needing a signature. Or early voting—but my county doesn’t offer that.
Any advice is welcomed!
Friend of mine reported on first day of early voting in Piperton, TN, close to Memphis.
We are only about 2000 in population, a RED county (Fayette), and HE WAITED IN LINE FOR 70 MINUTES!
I hope we swamp the swamp.
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