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To: backhoe

Are you in Max Burns district? Good to see the large turn out.


22 posted on 10/31/2006 3:11:44 AM PST by Atlantian
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To: Atlantian
Are you in Max Burns district? Good to see the large turn out.

Just below him- the crowd had me so startled I almost turned around, to try another day.

Interesting dynamic- most people there seemed to know each other- I saw one fellow I knew, whose name I couldn't place, and heard one name I recognized. One old fellow so blind his wife was leading him, and about a third were black folks.

Quiet, but cordial crowd.

I really don't know what to make of it- the 2004 election was a blowout here for President Bush, and the crowd at the polling place like I had never seen it before- people hugging, high-fiving, and shaking hands... swapping medical stories, catching up on old friends. Young and old, the halt, the lame, and the blind... young mothers dragging kids and babies along ( "See-this is how Mommie Votes! )... lots of black and white folks, all very happy to see each other... it was strange!

In all my decades of voting, I never saw anything like the 2004 polling place. And I don't know if you can extrapolate that experience with yesterdays- but it certainly was interesting.

28 posted on 10/31/2006 3:41:26 AM PST by backhoe
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