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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.
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DO YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY, EVERYONE .... VOTE!!!
IT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER!
West Boca Raton - Me and 200 democrats in line. A little more than normal but not enormously so at 7am.
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.
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.
BTW, locaL radio (WDBO 580 am) reported that the ACLU has thousands of video cameras around the State hoping to capture voting irregularities.
I live in an integrated precinct, heavily Dem.
I remarked last week that there were not the Kerry signs in the yards like I've seen for other Dem candidates in the past.
I'm wondering if the black churches in our area, have had a real impact. When GWB came to our area to rally, a local black pastor gave the invocation. Some fundamental black preachers would not endorse a vote for the Dems because of gay marriage.
Anyhoo, my sister just got back from our precinct. She said there just wasn't that huge a turnout (she was there by 7 and out by 8), and by 8 o'clock the line was already shortening.
Of course, early voting had to help some because I still believe a lot of the early voting was from Dems who were scared they'd be disenfranchised because they believed the Dem hype.
I'm going over at 10:30, so I'll check back in with a report.
I forgot how good it feels to vote. Right up there with sex.
Jack*ass Harris is on the Glenn Beck show yapping about how long the lines are, how close the race is. I don't know what this guy smokes, but I think he needs to lay off for while.