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Unfortunately, Floridian voters don't look like maggot-infested rock 'n roller types. They look like little old FDR widows in tennis shoes, bitter retired sewer workers from NYC, and like the pretty, well-groomed young lady who cut my hair the other day and complained about "all the good jobs are being outsourced to India" and "Bush got us into a war we can't get out of".

Florida does not have much of a stable, year-round population. Losers, whiners, immigrants, drifters and free-loaders abound.

My county (Pasco) went about 50/50 last election with a slight edge to Gore. Nevertheless, I expect a slight edge to Bush this time around and look for the state to go to our President....but by how much I can't predict.

Leni

Unfortunately, Floridian voters don't look like maggot-infested rock 'n roller types. They look like little old FDR widows in tennis shoes, bitter retired sewer workers from NYC,

Much fewer this election year due to Father Time. The demographics here are changing rapidly. Many of the retirement villages are now majority Hispanic. A different dynamic is now at work here.

Morning Leni! Had to do a little lab work this morning....SO passed the "garage" coming and going. WIsh I could have stopped twice, but Indiana is very strick at the polls here. Light rain here..... there was an actual line at my voting place....Most people could wait inside the building. Turn out is high...partly because of property tax referendum....Don't know how that will play....for years the German farmers in the area voted "D"....Many have switched parties and are running on the "R" ticket, but who knows how many that will influence!

Many of our "D"s are more conservative than the Rinos that get elected.....Go figure!

Just returned from voting in The First Methodist Church of Kennesaw, GA, in heavily conservative Cobb County. Steady line of voters, all 12-15 voting machines occupied, a wait of about 3 minutes to get to one after you follow the sign-in process.

This is the ID process here:
1. A sweet little old lady at the front door checked every person entering, for photo ID, and asked if this was the first time they had voted in this precinct. If they said "yes", she took their drivers license, handed it to an old guy who checked to make sure they were in the correct precinct.

2. You next handed your photo ID to another sweet little old lady, who looked you up in her files, for your voter registration card. She asked you to put down your new address if it was different from the one on the registration card. You signed your name if the information was correct, you checked the box indicating you were voting in a general election, and left that station with your photo ID and the registration card in hand.

3. You moved to the next little old lady who took your voter registration card and handed you the credit card like device that activates the electronic voting machine.

4. And voting for George Bush took less than 2 minutes...(most races are incumbant Republicans running without democrat opponents. hee hee.)

My husband and left the house at 10 AM and returned at 10:27.