Hardware: new G1 Google Android phone, really a micro computer, great device.
Hardware: new G1 Google Android phone, really a micro computer, great device.
I was at my polling place (elementary school) in northern Morris County, NJ at 6:05 AM. Short line, in and out in 7 minutes. My county went for Bush big time in both elections...McCain-Palin should be big winners here. Voted against Lautenberg, of course, and straight pubbie ticket.
Ready to walk out my front door right now here in Ohio. Polling place is 1/2 mile away.
I barely slept all night. Too excited! In 2004, I stood in line for 3 hours. We shall see how it goes. I am prepared to stay as long as it takes.
My wife and I voted this morning in King George, Va. The line started 1/2 hour earlier than normal. My wife and daughters voted for the first time ever. We all voted McCain.
I was at my polling place in the metropolis of Roxboro, NC when they opened and had to wait about twenty minutes. I was number 32. The turn out looks good and from the group it looks good for McCain also.
I was in line but had to leave to go to work. I'll vote this evening.
I had to park three blocks away. Stood in line for an hour and moved about 100 ft.
In the 20+ years of voting at the same precinct, I've never seen anything like it.
here in Georgia just south of Atlanta. long lines, conservative area. guy walks up and sees the line and exclaims - ‘looks like the silent majority is speaking today.’
Heading to the polling station in 30 minutes... ALL of my family and employees will vote for McCain/Palin today... ALL of my customers... even the “lifelong” dims (more than a few have opened up and told me) will be voting for McCain/Palin... Hey, it’s Mississippi and we deliver!
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Du Page County IL voter. Arrived 15 minutes ahead of poll opening to at least 75 people ahead of me. Typically Du Page has been a strong Repbulican county but the Obama signs seen in this area are alarming. At least 100 in line after I left. I stayed in my car and prayed over the location that God will move in the minds of people to vote in Godly men and women.
I was 4th in line at 5:40AM. By 5:50, there were 30 or more and after I voted, there were 60 or more in line. The woman in front of me was 35 and had never voted before. The woman behind me was 64 and had never voted before. Not sure what that means other than making the line VERY slow. My daughter was in the line of 60 when I left, perhaps 40th or so, and she didn’t vote until 7:15.
Wait were you freeping with an I-Pod or something? That’s hardcore.
Anyway there WAS a line. I went right at six, usually I wait 20 mins or so, so mabye those are early zealots that always go right at 6, or else it’s a bad sign, my neighbors aren’t for McCain.
In an appropriate metaphor, when I passed the two houses near me with Obama signs, the lights weren't on.
Ron Paul and Bob Barr supporters -- trust me, I understand your frustration. The candidate is not perfect. But consider 4 years of having to fight a flawed president -- compared with 4 years of a communist president who has stated on various occasions that he wants to take away your ambition/initiative, rule your personal economy and budgets, make you "be fair," stifle your right to publicly state your ideas, and take away your right to protect yourself.... at the same time allowing criminals, sodomites, and infant murderers to have free rein over the social direction of this country, and "dialoguing" with terrorist states around the world which would like nothing better than to see your mutilated bodies lying in the street.
Your protest vote (or not voting at all) today will have zero effect -- it will serve no purpose, other than to make you feel warm and fuzzy for the 30 seconds it takes you to finalize your vote.
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Change you'd BETTER believe in.....
I voted this morning in Warren County, OH ... the reddest of red counties. The line was unprecedented. GOP turnout is through the roof.
I was the 2nd person in line here in my town here in S.E. PA. My friend was first. We were there at 5:45. The line was around the church by 6:30. When we left the booths (she and I were next to each other) casting votes 1 and 2, I looked at her and said.. “We’re winning!!” :-) We “hi-fived” when we got outside.
Good luck all, hang in there.
My husband called from the polling place, having gotten there at opening. A hundred people or more with the line out the door, so he had to turn around and get to work.
He said there were tons of Obama signs and an obvious campaign worker planting more. He said they seemed to be within 25-30 feet, not sure what the laws are here. Will double check before heading out myself at 10am. Over the last month McCain signs on lawns in our town have been about 60/40 against Obama, plus lots of local dem signs with no Presidential campaign signs.
Our town in Mass. is slightly Republican majority in recent elections but in a sea of blue in surrounding communities. My polling place is a school with a 1/4 mile driveway. The drive in saw McCain/Palin signs every 20 ft, both sides of the road, only 4-5 Obama signs. I usually try to be the first vote cast and have generally been so for thirty years. Not even close this AM. There was a long line - 100 or so waiting. It was the biggest crowd I've seen in over 30 years of voting at that location.
Usually the early birds will have a word or two of greeting; the old familiar faces a bit more grab-assing. Everyone was deadly serious and not a word was spoken -- like waiting for an execution.
On the way out the long drive there was one Michael Moore clone trying to stab an Obama sign into the ground and at the entrance to the drive a middle-aged school teacher-ish woman waving an O sign desultorily at passing cars.
I have no feel for how it will turn out. Let us hope.
Not in line, but drove past my (and other) polling places and the lines are incredible. Va Beach.
Just voted in Richmond, VA. No line and raining. Other polling places have lines, nothing spectacular though.