***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.

[GeorgiaYankee]

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?

[jennyjenny]

Being a Hoosier, I can't understand Carson's stranglehold. Even local TV is playing the sympathy card for her just before election.

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.

[maryz]

but heavy turnout is something that normally works against us.

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.)

[TexasGunLover]

Just voted in Irving, TX (Dallas)... took less than 10 minutes...

Was verbally berated by a Martin Frost (D) campaigner standing right at the 100 foot line... he commented on my Bush/Cheney sticker on my truck and tried to feed some bull about Frost being a strong conservative, blah blah blah...

[AMiller]

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.

[mrplind]

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.

[processing please hold]

New Orleans is very liberal.

[DGray]

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.

[Sashula]

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.

[Big Bad Bob]

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.

[MEG33]

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bommer/Live%20What%20I%20Believe.html

Love this!

[GOPmomof3inNC]

From NC here too. New Hanover County, NC to be exact. Voter turnout here today is larger than I've ever seen it. We passed several voting places and the lines are long - wrapped around the parking lot in most places. I was voter # 332 at about 8:30 this am and my husband at about 11am was voter # 707. Took the youngest with me to stand with the Republicans handing out literature while he voted. Most people seemed to know who they were voting for already. Everyone was pleasant, smiling. On the way to vote my husband saw a bumper sticker he must have - "Liberal - a mind so open one's brains have fallen out." I gave the driver the thumbs up and complimented him on his sticker but I'm not sure he heard me.

We're happy to have cast our two votes to re-elect George W Bush. This is my first post to Free Republic though I've been a member and lurker for awhile now.

[Txsleuth]

Fox News just now reporting about the vans.


Free Republic rocks

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[RSmithOpt]

Here in NC (Franklin County,) the Dems are always listed first whatever the seat.

[TaxRelief]

Did Democrats on line have the same "problem"?

[Txsleuth]

Welcome to posting on FR. Just jump in any time, the more voices we hear, the more informative and fun we have!!!!!!

[niteowl]

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.

[chilepepper]

actually spelled shyte and bullshyte

[lamppost118]

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.

[Big Bad Bob]

The Voice Of The Garden will be roaming on the Site for the next hour!!!

Vote Today.

Vote Bush-Cheney!!!