Posted on 11/03/2009 4:35:31 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
An early voting report from Virginia's 1st Congressional District, epicenter for today's expected GOP tsunami in the Old Dominion.
I reside in York County, not far from Fort Eustis and the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center. The district is heavily Republican; John McCain got more than 60% of the vote here last year.
Polls open in Virginia at 6 a.m. I arrived at my voting place (a local elementary school) at 6:45. The parking lot was 80% full at that hour, and more cars were arriving by the minute. The level activity seemed comparable to what I saw during the most recent presidential election, although I voted later in the day in 2008.
Outside the precinct, the GOP had two pollworkers passing our sample Republican ballots. Demand was heavy; by comparison, the Democrats had just one representative handing out their sample ballots. With the exception of a few African-American voters, there were virtally no takers.
Inside the polling place, there were 20 people ahead of me in line. However, the ballot is short (governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and one race for the House of Delegates), so the line moved quickly. I was out the door at 6:50 a.m. and by that time, almost 200 people had voted at this particular precinct.
Outside the school, signs for the Republican team (Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli) outnumbered those for the Democratic candidates by at least an 8-1 margin. However, this is a solidly Republican district, so you'd expect to see that sort of advantage for the GOP.
For all FReepers in VA: you know your mission for today. Get out and vote, and put the Old Dominion back in the GOP column. And while you're at it, say a prayer for Chris Christie and Doug Hoffman.
Well, in my opinion, that wouldn’t help the GOP hacks one bit. In fact, they may look even worse than they already do if Hoffman were to lose.
But, I don’t think that’s going to happen.
This is exactly what these third party people want. They'd like nothing better than to split the party to ensure Marxism is deeply embedded to the point of no return to Capitalism. They may pitch a good game about American values, but no thinking, reasonable person would purposefully fracture the Republican party knowing the result of permanent Dim wins. The Dims are just drooling at the thought of the success of these, what I perceive to be, traitors to their country.
Christie Wins New Jersey Race without your prayers.
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