Posted on 11/02/2004 6:08:43 AM PST by Bushite
(Miami) Okay...My wife is at a precinct in Northern Hialeah/Southern Opalocka (She is pushing for the construction Bonds for Dade County and of course working as my Mole........)
That area is 50/50 really....you have alot of middle class Cubans and middle class African Americans....
The NAACP is out front observing....
A Republican Poll Watcher told my wife that he can't figure out where the Dem GOTV is...they (NAACP) were expected to be at the opening of the polls with a Bus load and he was there early to wait for them....(They have not arrived...and the NAACP folks said that they will not bus in to that station.
Lines are long....some African Americans walked out off the lines and where confronted by the NAACP officials...some ugly words...the African Americans left...saying "AH...it's really not that important to vote this year."
My wife has been talking to a Black Lady that is working at the precinct and they got around to talking about who they were voting for and the Black Lady said that she was voting for Bush because "He's been okay...and I don't like Kerry, although Bush shouldn't have been there in the first place cuz Gore won Florida." For some reason...Al Gore is loved by African Americans...there is NO energy FOR Kerry in the African American community.
I've always wondered how Kerry would go over in the Af Am community. Gore was in the penumbra of Clinton. That lady may be quite atypical, hard to tell.
I live in MD but my wife had the same experience with a black coworker - she's voting BUSH for the first time in her life (and she's working on her husband to do the same).
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I just got off the phone with my friend who lives in Tampa...not sure of an exact polling place. She pulled up and said there must be 5000 in line!!! I don't know if she was exaggerating or not but I know she is voting for Bush so i told her to hold her ground and get in there and vote!!!!
A good buddy of mine is very active in Philly politics and works extensively with black contractors and business men in the Philly area. He says the same thing. I asked him if Clinton's appearance in Philly generated any black support. He replied, "Did you see the crowd. It was pure white." I will be very interested to see if the rumours are true.
I'm a Floridian in Tallahasee and there were people waving large Kerry/Edwards signs five feet from the door...
this is a clear breach of the mandated 50 ft. law but I guess the law only applies to Republicans.
In Pensacola my wife was at work and saw people running around spraypainting Crosses over KEdwards signs.
ping - fascinating ...
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I'm a Floridian in Tallahasee and there were people waving large Kerry/Edwards signs five feet from the door...
this is a clear breach of the mandated 50 ft. law but I guess the law only applies to Republicans."
If you see this, report it to the election Judge and they *WILL* put a stop to it... If they dont, call your country Republican HQ, and they will get on it (if they have their act together).
West Boca Raton - Me and 200 democrats in line. A little more than normal but not enormously so at 7am.
I voted in Land O Lakes, FL - about 15 miles north of Tampa. I don't have stats to back me up but I would figure the area/county (Pasco) leans right about 60/40 as a whole, maybe a little less.
Took me about an hour to vote - there were probably 200-300 people waiting at my precinct. I've only lived in the area two years so I don't have much to compare it to, but seemed to be a pretty good turnout so far.
Voted early here in North Central FL. Heavy Bush country. Few Demon-crats ie...dummy-craps. Not an ethnic or liberal in the crowd. Voting was easy and quick as we are the smarter section of Florida. I don't mind being non-PC. South FL has all the condo libs from NJ. North Florida is FL the way it was.
"In Pensacola my wife was at work and saw people running around spraypainting Crosses over KEdwards signs."
this is wrong .. 'our' side should NOT be doing that.
We've had Bush/Cheney signs defaced with swastikas and it is not pleasant.
Have you ever heard him preach in a black Baptist church? He does the best Martin Luther King imitation I have ever heard.
PBS played a long selection from his sermon when he visited that famous church up in Harlem. It was incredible.
MoveOn was in front of my polling place ( 50 ft ) giving out cookies.
Al Gore has really polished his "black preacher" routine over the last few years. I'd swear he's taken lessons on it.
The best Kerry can do is to drop the "g"s from words, e.g., somethin', goin', workin', somethin'. I heard him doing that in a Columbus speech and it was really transparent. Also IMHO he is extremely patronizing to black audiences.
Good morning! I have already voted at my rural precinct in eastern Polk County. This part of Florida is solidly George W. Bush country (he won 60% of the vote in Polk in 2000). My voting went off without any incident or problems at all, and I may have waited all of 5 minutes to get my ballot. Turnout didn't seem to be inordinately higher than it has been in past elections. No officials from either party, no Rat operatives or buses full of Rat voters. But my precinct is pretty small and remote, and is mostly made up of retired folks and Florida crackers, so it's definitely under the radar.
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