Yeah, seriously, I don’t run this site but knock it off, bad job on this thread.
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.
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.