***Operation 4 More Years - Situation Room - Day 1 - LIVE THREAD***

Various | 2 November 2004 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

As I and many of my fellow expatriates are often hard pressed to get any non-biased information from the media (we are often stuck with CNN-International!!), I have decided to start this thread in the tradition of the Operation Iraqi Freedom Situation Room threads.  I hope this meets with the approval of Jim & John and the Admin guys . . .

The purpose of this thread is to be a place to collect information from all sources into one area for discussion.  Specific threads for specific topics and cross linking are highly encouraged.

[Artemis Webb]

FROM MISSOURI (7TH CONGRESSIONAL DIST)

I got to the poll three minutes before they opened. There were about 30 people in line. There were two poll watchers once I got in and the line moved smoothly. I did hear one old guy in the back of the line loudly say, "Everybody has their Bush face on!"

Everybody needs to pray for OUR President. There are no atheist in foxholes.

[meowmeow]

VA polls open at 6am. We got there at 5:40 and ended up #12 and #13 in line, mainly because a lot of the people in line ahead of us were in the wrong line - there were two precincts voting in the same building. By the time we got out at 6:10, the lobby was packed.

Okay, I really am going to stay away from FR today and keep myself busy! Really...

[RobFromGa]

God Bless President Bush!

Everyone do what you can to get out the vote! We are going to shock the elites with the margin of victory. 310+ EV.

[MEG33]

WOO HOO!

[opticks]

Just voted in Dayton, OH! At 0630, the polling station was packed. Everything went smoothly despite the rainy weather. No evidence of challengers (either side) in my precinct.

[Jim-FREEportPA]

One of 71,000 72hr volunteers. Just voted and our little town had'em lined up and we knodded at each other for W.
In West. PA-going to my poll station soon.
LET'ROLL!!!!!

[cripplecreek]

Ive done my thing already and I was first at my precinct. I will be heading out in a hour or so to take my grandmother and her neighbor to the polls. That will be 3 votes for W.

BTW I ended up voting for a local democrat for township supervisor after finding that he was a better republican than the republican challenger. The Democrat was instrumental in opening a local shooting range and doesn't want our local police force outsourced to the county. My disagreements with him are mostly on things I get to vote on anyway.

[~Vor~]

Thank you for starting this thread...I just had to post this somewhere and this seems to be the place.

Yesterday afternoon the hubby and I went looking for a new vehicle. After deciding on what we wanted, we were sitting in the showroom cubicle with our salesman waiting for all the paperwork to be drawn up. Two of the salesmen on the floor started a discussion about the election. One salesman was a Bush supporter, the other a Kerry supporter.

The Bush salesman was scoring point after point against the Kerry salesman and as he looked over to where my hubby and I were sitting I gave him a "thumbs up". This brought him over to where we were sitting.

The Kerry salesman starts with, "Bushie didn't serve in the Vietnam war because he had his Daddy with his high up friends to keep him from going!"

The Bush salesman and I both jumped on that comment! And I made sure to ask him if he thought Kerry's 4 months and 11 days in Vietnam gave him the right to come back and testify against our troops still over there, and causing our POW's to be tortured further because of Kerry's testimony being used against them. So he gets off the Vietnam subject and says, "look at all Kerry has done for the people of Mass."....both the Bush salesman and I looked at each other and started laughing. We asked exactly what Kerry had done for Mass and the Kerry salesman couldn't answer. He got all flustered, couldn't answer that either and the last we saw of him he was walking out the showroom door ranting and raving to himself.

What an exceptional day!...got a new vehicle and pissed off a liberal too! You can't ask for much more....except for a BUSH/CHENEY win today!

[InvisibleChurch]

the American people will NOT vote for the guy bin Laden essentially endorsed the other day.

you know, WE pay attention to these things ... i wonder just how many other people do

[GodBlessUSA]

Hi Freepers

I voted at 6:10. Our town decided to move the central location of voting (how it's always been) to a number of locations. They didn't inform. People are angry. I'm in NY so it won't affect Bush. That said, we have a few important local seats up (Congressman Bishop). It's going to be a long day for the nice seniors who have volunteered to be at the polls today.

[Larry381]

My polling place was very crowded this morning at 6:30 here in NYC (Queens). Funny thing, most of the voters were older people-I only saw a couple of people in their 20's.

[spectre]

Thank you for starting this thread. Good morning Patriots! Victory is ours again today.

I'm going to be one of those "challengers" aka Poll Watchers today here in Arkansas.

I pray all goes well and that we have closed THIS forum to new members...just for today :~)

sw

[dubie]

I voted at 7:10 AM. I was in line at 6:45. I had a re-elect Bush pin on and got many excellent feedback. The people in front and behind of me were for Bush! :) I slept very little and when I did get up I was pacing. I could not wait to get to the polls... :) !@#$$##@!!! !@@$#$#@! GO BUSH!!!!!!

[mhking]

Good morning, Americans!

Polls are open in many eastern states, it's time to let 'er rip!

Early reports here in metro Atlanta have lines two and three hundred deep or longer at many precincts both city and suburbs. I'm planning on waiting a few hours for the early voters to get in and out before I head out.

Pray on it, get out there, consider well, vote well, and come on back to raise a victory toast tonight!

 

Double-barrelled Mega-PING! to both lists! If you want on, FReepmail me!

[Jim-FREEportPA]

That's LET'S ROLL!!!!
Between excitement and tears, praying for our Father to intervene, I can hardly type. I don't want my 8 year old son to fight 10 years from now because we elected a traitor who should have announced BinLaden as his VP instead of that empty suit from NC.

[searchandrecovery]

Do Republicans vote today or tomorrow?

[PigRigger]

Voted @ 6am in West Islip NY. We may not carry NY but maybe we can make it closer than one might think.

Sitting, nervously waiting, cautiously optimistic.

If you haven't voted as of yet, get your butts to the poll!!!!

May God Bless our President today, may He bless our Troops, may He be with this nation as we choose our course in history.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"...a young man-Martin Treptow-who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, "My Pledge," he had written these words: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone." "...The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us."

-- Ronald Reagan, 20 January 1981

[GOP_Proud]

Someone tried to start a new thread on this same subject but it was pulled and referred back to this one. Thanks mods. Let's keep it that way.

[finnman69]

Voted in NYC. Therer were two voting booths and they told Republicans to vote in one booth, Democrats to vote in the other.