Posted on 11/02/2004 2:48:56 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate
I just voted in a DEMOCRATIC AREA OF ATLANTA (Most Local races have a Dem running UNOPPOSED) THERE WAS NO LINE! I READ THIS AS A SIGN OF LOW MOTIVATION and TURNOUT FOR URBAN DEM VOTERS.
Anyone else see signs of this?
My husband and I were just discussing (laughing about!) Julia Carson at breakfast this morning. We don't get it either. Fortunately, she is not our representative.
Republicans never used to do get-out-the-vote things (the Dems always did!), but this year they are. (I think I read the Rs first tried it in the last congressional elections for practice and were pleased with the results.)
I voted here in Henrietta, NY (a suburb of Rochester). I voted at 9 am. There was a traffic jam at the polling place with many more than usual voting this year.
I was voter #136 in my district. Usually except for times I voted late in the evening I've never has this high a number. One more vote for W.
It would be AWESOME for Murray to be unseated. She and her counterpart Cantwell are some of the most liberal senators, second only to the pair in Massachusettes.
New Orleans is very liberal.
My precinct would have to be one of the most ridiculously Democratic in the Atlanta area. The locals are either artists and musicians or welfare recipients living in federal housing projects. I was halfway expecting a huge line filled with illiterate crackheads, and I was definitely expecting a long wait. I even took a folding chair and a book. But to my suprise, there were only four people voting and there was no line at all. I asked the pollworkers if it had been that way all morning and they told me that this was the busiest they'd gotten. Go figure!
Driving home, I saw my first vandalized campaign signs of this election. Someone had gone up and down Highland Avenue in the Virgina-Highlands neighborhood, and spraypainted bright yellow "W"'s on all the Kerry-Edwards yard signs.
Smooth sailing in Plum Springs/Bowling Green, KY. The line looked long, but went quickly.
Even in Podunk, KY there were two women complaining of voter suppression. Seems they moved this summer and didn't change their address, but were insisting on voting in this precint.
Good Day to All of You
I write from the Garden of England, while watching the shite that is CNN, anything is better than watching the Bullshit which is on the BBC.
I urge you all to vote today of all days, and vote for the only man is the last 20 years who has had the cheek to stand up to the terrorists where others have not.
Vote For Bush-Cheney.
Forza.
Fox News just now reporting about the vans.
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Here in NC (Franklin County,) the Dems are always listed first whatever the seat.
Did Democrats on line have the same "problem"?
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Voted 1st thing this AM in beautiful northern El Paso County, just above Colorado Springs, CO (leans very conservative). Line was already 90-minutes long by the time the polls opened...I've never seen a crowd like that. The Bush base is energized here. The People's Republic of Denver/Boulder is always a different story from here, so I don't know how the state will swing.
just voted here in Ohio. Went with dad at lunch. Mom and sister voted early (mom doesn't get home till 10 tonight). little brother votes after class. Big brother after work. 6 Ohio votes, straight republican. On the other hand. Convinced a dem not to vote. If you can't win em, get them to stay home.
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