Posted on 11/02/2004 2:48:56 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate
Press reports have said early voting in Florida was heavy in favor of KERRY. Come on, Florida! Make Gov. Jeb Proud!
You are hoping to just squeak by with a Bush win when the guy he is running against is an anti American traitor and all around scum bag.
Lay of Canadians, we are just like you!
Being a Hoosier, I can't understand Carson's stranglehold.
Even local TV is playing the sympathy card for her just before election.
My wife and I cast two votes for W. at 6:30 this morning in Columbus, OH. Long line, everything went smoothly. Punch cards are still being used, but anyone with half a brain can use these. In fact there was a notice in each booth to make sure all of the chads were removed. It felt good to perform my duty and I couldn't help but feel very thankful that the Lord has allowed us to live in aplace where we can vote freely and peacefully.
We voted at 6:30 AM in Arlington, VA. (heavily Dem area)
No incidents. Except one 30-somthing woman on the line complained to a poll worker that we had our baby with us. We couldn't figure out why, Then we realized our baby was holding a folded up sample Republican ballot and crinkling it. We suspect she thought our baby was stealthly campaining inside the polling place.
However, the poll worker (who definitely seemed like a Democrat) told her there was nothing wrong with bringing the baby, nor was there anything wrong with the baby playing with the sample ballot.
These dems are utterly nuts.
Go W!! Four More Years. Get out and vote!
Roswell High School Polling Place, Roswell GA, 8 AM:
as reported by my daughter:
The line is huge, just to get inside the building, my daughter guesses at least 500-1,000 people long. No parking, people brought chairs, books, and it's a mixed crowd of working people, middle aged and the elderly. She had to leave to get to work, but she will come back later. (This is one of the most conservative districts in the country.)
I live in a town near Orlando, population 1200. Last year, I went at 7:10 am and was home by 7:25. Today, I got there at 7:15 and waited in a long line that ran out of the building by 100 people. Just got home at 8:15. This should be good as I live in a very conservative community.
Just voted for our great President here in Nashville, showed up at 5:45, polls opened at 7, I was the second one to vote. Conservative precinct. Line was as far as the eye could see by opening time. Go W!!!!!
It's too early for the dem's to be at the polls - they don't have any reason to get up early (and work) so they sleep in til noon . . .
Omg, not even close..
The lady in the cubicle across the aisle votes in a very rural precinct up in the mountains and she said the lines were out the door a block. She never seen anything like it.
BTW.. GOP registered more voters in the county than Dems did.
I just voted in eastern Lancaster County, PA. The Amish are arriving in droves. Turnout is very heavy at 0730 hrs. A large Bush/Cheney table greets everyone before they walk into the polling place - a Methodist church. A solitary and very forlorn Kerry supporter lurks nearby but does not interact at all with the arrivals. He does not look happy!!
Voters exit with a determined look and almost everyone stops by the Bush/Cheney table to make a positive comment.
Traffic continues to pour in as I leave. There is a line which moves quickly. People are spending an average of 5-10 seconds in each booth. Definitely a sign of straight party voting!!
Bush will carry this area in a huge landslide!
That's encouraging, but unfortunately the real voter fraud happens late in the day. I just hope that the GOP poll watchers are still alert at 8-9 PM tonight.
Excellent turnout in Tranquil Harbour. We're the southeastern tip of NC. Hit the polls at 6:18 with a hearty "Good morning, citizens" to the 90 or more other early-birds among the 7,000 residents of my little island. Within 20 minutes those numbers nearly doubled at my 'Fire-House' Precinct. High good humour among all present, no brass nucks in evidence, and observed only one elderly couple (alone of those in line from our higher-than-average senior citizen demographic) who turned away in dismay at what proved to be about an hour's waiting time. Friends meeting, 'long time no see', chit-chat, no politics. Political talk was over. Minds were made up. Seven booths, all worked, electronic instructions simple and clear; very little room for error or confusion marking the ballot. So little effort for so important an end. Duty done, warm familiar feeling participating in this earliest of democratic systems which has served us well for so long. And left with a prayer that we may continue to rely upon this by-now sanctified if threatened process... to order our corner of the world, as we wish it. Its a grand sun-lit morning here on Oak Island.
I took my son Caleb with me to vote today. He brought his stuffed dalmation puppy, "Spot".
While in line, a gentleman asked if his puppy was old enough to vote. I replied, "Only in Florida" and everybody cracked up.
He followed up with, "Can he vote twice"? Feeling smart witted, I replied, "Only if he was fron Ohio".
The best part of voting was standing in the K-O line. To make sure N was before O, I asked Caleb to go through the alphabet, and he started singing. Right after K, he got to Seven and the line cracked up again.
Kids are great.
Oh, and we used touch screen voting and it was the easiest thing I have ever done. I have more trouble opening my garage door.
Report from the 6th district of Pennsylvania, which is southern Berks County (near Reading, PA). I got there 10 minutes early, and there were about 25 people ahead of me. By the time I left, there might have been 75 people in line. I was talking with my uncle in line, who has voted in 13 elections in this township, he said he's never seen a larger turnout. This township votes 60/40 Republican.
just voted 3 Bush votes here, side not to all: I wore my GWB sweatshirt to the polls and was told they were not supposed to let me vote like that, but we are a huge Republican county so I got away with it. The woman told me you need to cover the shirt with your arm or some might even go so far as to make me turn it inside out. She told me go,go,go just go vote.
LOL - yes, but you do have alternatives . . .
all I have is FR - hence this room - a place for me to read up on whats happening without having to filter through hundreds of threads . . .
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