I came back from voting less than a half hour ago. I live in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, in Congressman Moran's district. I waited about half an hour to vote. The line was pretty long. I was surprised, since I got there shortly after the polls opened at 6 am. One person in the line said he had never seen the line this long at 6 am.
People waiting to vote weren't really talking to each other too much, other than guiding people to the right line, since two precincts vote at the same school. The Republican and Democrat volunteers were out front as usual, passing out fliers and putting up signs. The Republican volunteer passing out fliers was this American of Asian decent, and I gave her a compliment as I was coming out of the school. I didn't see any people in my age group (18-30), it was mostly people in their 30's or older.
See my earlier post mentioning this topic. I noticed no MTV Rock the Vote types on the long early voting line here in Broward County. I just don't think most of the MTVers have the patience to vote. Yeah, they will show up for a free Rock the Vote concert but to actually vote?---NAW!
Pretty crowded in another part of Moran's district. I waited an hour on line. Didn't see any Bush/Cheney signs.
Noticed all who had campaign buttons on in the crowd waiting to vote were for Kerry. Also noticed three cars in the lot with "Hillary for President" bumper stickers.
We must be living in Moscow on the Potomac ;-)
Hi, do you know of any election parties in Arlington tonight? Any reachable via Metro? Thanks.
I had a very similar experience in Peoria. I usually get to the poll by 6:15--it was more like 6:25 this time and I had to wait 15 minutes to vote. I have never seen the polls so crowded. Some people were from the wrong precincts, so I suspect they were either new voters or hadn't voted in a long time. This should be very interesting in terms of registered vote turn out. If we get 70% or more and 55% for GWB (my prediction) that's a pretty rousing endorsement.