Posted on 11/04/2008 2:26:20 PM PST by RobinMasters
Here in Chicago, a group of us just got back from doing visibility for McCain here in Boystown on a break from monitoring the polling stations in our neighborhoods. So far, we have not seen any instances of Obama followers intimidating voters or committing any sort of fraud — but are keeping our eyes open. We are all veterans of the Iowa, Texas, and other caucuses, so we know how bad Obama’s followers can be.
The weirdest thing about today is that we honestly see less Obama tee shirts, stickers, and buttons out that we saw Kerry stuff in 2004. We spotted two black people in Obama tee shirts and a 60-something white hippy woman with long gray hair wearing about 57 Obama buttons (one for every state), but that’s about it. Spotted one McCain tee shirt and one pink Palin shirt though.
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The city has also opened the park to the public (tickets are still needed for the premium area) so advance sales must have sucked.
thank you
Noob or no, from hillbuzz? I'd maintain a healthy skepticism.
Knock what off? A poster can choose what they want to excerpt from an article to post the most relevant part. I did go there and read the article and it’s particularly worthless anyway. No better than the posts from Freepers posting anecdotal information. You would expect something better from an online publication. Bad job both from the poster and whoever wrote the article.
It is trustworthy — the people from this site have helped uncover fraud in a lot of areas.
Honestly, you would really not know there was even an election going on. There is no excitement in the air here in Chicago. Our polling stations are in a neighborhood heavily populated with young professionals and college kids — supposedly Obama’s demographic. Both polling places near us have not been busy all day. There was never a line, and inside the room there are about 35 poll workers and monitors, with something like 25-30 voting booths, and at most we’ve seen 6 of them occupied at a time.
Where is Obama’s “youth army”?
Or, are they all going to come in 10 minutes before polls close to overwhelm the room, like they did in Iowa for the caucus?
You can tell the Obama supporters on the street, though. They look really worried. Word’s spreading fast here that Obama’s going to lose — the big Reifenstahl-styled rally Obama planned for Grant Park has been downgraded, according to police we know. Instead of one million people coming out to hear his concession speech tonight, the city is now expecting only “tens of thousands”. The world’s biggest celebrity doesn’t seem to be drawing the crowd he hoped.
More later when we get the chance — back to our stations — another four hours or so until polls close here.
If turnout and excitement for Obama are as dismal in the rest of the city as they are in Boystown, this could be a VERY bad night for Dear Leader.
steady FReepers steady, don’t let any polls discourage or encourage voter participation...LET’S ALL continue to encourage our WEST COAST FReepers to BRING IT HOME!!
VOTE VOTE VOTE!
I reside in MN and this attitude of yours in Chicago toted just doesn't jive here....
Not sure HOW they know this or who the “word on the street” is but I’m willing to listen!
My daughter-in-law just told me son that she is hearing all kinds of sirens around the area where the rally is going to be — their building is right near there.
“...advance sales must have sucked.”
Probably forgot to book the free concert.
This is just noise and exit poll BS.
With these turnout numbers I think it will be a blowout.
FOR MAC AND SARAH!!!
I'm having a heck of a time posting. Maybe I'll just browse this evening. Gaaaah.
I have to wonder if some Obamunists are going to bother to wait in line in the Mountain and Pacific time zones “if” the election has already been called for Obama. After all, that 90 minutes could be spent celebrating his victory, why be late to the party?
btt
Hillbuzz is a PUMA site.
The PUMAs HATE 0bama.
I don’t know what is going on but here on the NW side there have been sirens all afternoon. Far more than usual.
Went and voted and encountered no line. Ladies said the turnout had been bigger than usual but saw no evidence of it.
Disc, Drum or Jake Brake?
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