My polling place has two precincts under one roof 80 and 81 by number and there were two lines one for each. I live in 80 and we have our own booths.
I suspected something was wrong because the line for 81 moved three times as fast as the line for 80 meaning it took three times as long to get to the booth. It seems that there were people in our booths that just could not fill out a ballot in over thirty minutes that it took me five minutes to fill out while waiting for a booth. Picture the scene in Men in Black where Will Smith and the other candidates are filling out the MIB questionaire and you have me filling out a ballot while waiting for a booth.
I suspect that based upon the Obama’s stickers on cars in the parking lot that didn’t move, that these slowpokes were deliberately holding up the process so that people that had to go to work would leave before voting as the other line that went three times as fast was from a neighborhood that would have naturally favored Barack Obama.
I voted in Cobb County, GA. It’s definitely a red area, but the turnout was huge! Compared to what I experienced at the polls in 04, it’s like night and day. My sense from the folks I spoke with was that they feared an Obama presidency, and they wanted to prove the MSM wrong. I definitely felt pumped when I left.
On another note, I’m from Youngstown, OH (which is near the PA border in NE Ohio)originally. It’s a heavily democrat/union area. In speaking to my friends and family in OH and Western PA, they tell me that Obama is absolutely hated. Lifelong Dems are saying that they are either going to vote McCain or not vote at all. I think the MSM is going to commit mass suicide when the raw vote comes in later!