Posted on 11/06/2012 9:48:10 AM PST by Jackson Brown
Just voted in Maryland.
We live in the northern tip of Montgomery County Maryland, just outside DC As usual, VERY few Dem yard signs in our town of about 18,000 ever -- conservative enclave in liberal county. This year Romney signs all over the place...virtually every house.
Lived here 25+ years and EVERY election in past no lines to vote...we usually just walk right in, vote, and leave in 5 minutes. Always go to polls about 9 AM just after people who vote before going to work are gone.
THIS year -- temps in the low 30s (much colder than ever before (in my memory) -- the line was out the door and down the road -- took 2+ hours to vote.
IOW, the majority republicans who live here know that MD will go democratic and usually don't vote -- yet they showed up in HUGE numbers nonetheless THIS TIME...for the FIRST TIME.
Tells me the enthusiasm to vote republican -- even if unlikely to go our way in our state -- is OFF THE CHART!
In Northern CT Obama signs are almost non existent, while Romney signs are all over the place. Never had a line longer than a dozen or so people, this time waits of 20 min to a hour in a town of 11K.
As an aside, why would the mods pull this from ‘breaking news’ when this is a report from the polls today? Is that not news, and in fact breaking news? Let’s honor our citizen journalists and not impute that the only thing to qualify as ‘news’ is reported by the Corrupted Media...
“Let’s go forward in FAITH, trusting in God that He answers our prayers and BELIEVING we’ll win!”
AMEN! Well said! In fact, I know he’s answered our prayers and I’ve been thanking the Lord for our victory last night and all day today!
The Word says, “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” -—1 Corinthians 15:57.
We’ve got it! THANK YOU, LORD, FOR MITT ROMNEY & PAUL RYAN’S VICTORY, IN JESUS’ NAME!!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
My advice to people is. “ Don’t go through Anacostia tonight.”
From what little I’ve seen of Anacostia (and admittedly, that was a few years ago), I don’t think I’d wanna be there any night!
Showed up at Francis Scott Key Middle School at 7AM. Didn’t vote until 8:15.
Didn’t see as many Hispanics/Blacks as I am used to seeing out and about in my area.
As a 30 yr resident of the state my current belief is based upon the track record of MD voters, the occasional Ehrlich notwithstanding. While I share your wishful thinking the facts on the ground indicate otherwise.
Yep you got the area. Your NOT getting the point.
We are a strongly republican area -- BUT republicans vote here in low numbers since they assume that it will do no good in a heavy blue state...most don't expect to have any affect on the the gambling and gay marriage issues.
If the republican turn out here is HUGE -- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, than it means that it is very likely that the RED turnout in the swing states -- NOT MD -- will surprise the pollsters and their +9 dem calculations.
I lived in Maryland for a while too, bugged out of Greenbelt (and the state) back in 1990 just as the sewage from the rest of P.G. county oozed north and overwhelmed the place.
So Romney is going to take Maryland, eh? I hope you’re right, but you better click your heels together 3 times while you’re saying that, Dorothy. Unlike Oz, wishing doesn’t make it so.
We can hope and pray that Cardin goes down in flames too (wouldn’t THAT be sweet!) but here in the real world, he’s going back to the Senate for as long as he wants to.
Voted today at Carney Elementary in Parkville, MD. This is a very swing precinct. My Father who represents the area lost it in 2006 and won it in 2010. The line was long and full of a lot of friendly faces, Romney will win this precinct, but not MD. My hope is he hits 43% or higher. That is what GWB got in 2004.
I was hoping someone would post a Maryland thread.
My experience is similar. I live in an unincorporated hamlet of less than 8,000 in Anne Arundel County. Our precinct is pretty red - 60% McCain in 08, 62% Bush in 04, 65% Ehrlich in 10, 65% - 70% for hopeless congressional and senatorial candidates and local candidates. Our precinct is over 90% white, affluent, highly-educated.
Never waited more than five or ten minutes to vote, except in 08 when I waited a little longer in a line of maybe 20 folks. I always vote mid-morning on election day.
Well, went down to the volunteer firehouse around 10:15 like I do every year. Couldn’t fine parking. Had to park illegally.
Got in the door - there are three lines of around 20 folks each to get to the election judges to get our little plastic voting card, and then another 40 or 50 people waiting in line to get into the voting machines. Over 100 folks! It’s been like this since we opened at 7 am, says one of the election judges. 450 folks have voted (out of about 2100) so far in three and a half hours, they tell me (do the math - even without counting early voting, which was very heavy this year, that’s nearly 85% turnout over the course of the day, IF IT DOESN’T PICK UP DURING THE AFTER-WORK HOURS!). When I left, there was a line outside to get into the firehouse.
It took nearly an hour for me to vote. A truly unreal experience in my little red corner of a deeply blue state.
I have no expectation that Gov. Romney will win Maryland, but if we’re seeing this kind of Republican precinct turnout HERE, what does it mean in Ohio? Pennsylvania? Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan??
There may be a reason why Romney is campaigning in Obama territory and Obama is campaigning in,... well,... Obama territory.
The morning line was huge in 2008 too and my county went to Obama, long in 2004 too and it went to Kerry. That is why I didnt join them this morning.
I think some of these Maryland GOPs posting here are misguided, In a deep blue state you want LOW turnout not high turnout.
I will go vote after they are home after dark. O is still popular here.
You got that right.
Might be wrong on both counts today.
I am very nervous today. Fraud is occurring in Philly. The polls, even the ones like Gallup that showed a potential landslide, tightened fast after Sandy. One one hand we have a terrible economy and enthusiasm for Romney from both Republicans and Independents. On the other, we have a very big obstacle in the one-sided media and the Democrat machine. I knew Obama would win in 2008. It was clear despite our feelings on the matter. This election is very difficult to make sense of. I don't think any outcome would surprise me. It is easier to be pessimistic in a place like Baltimore, where one gets to see stupidity, incompetence and corruption consistently be rewarded at the polls.
>> Every second person there is driving an F-250 dually. In other words, you live in America.
Interesting observation, because in the America where I live, Ford doesn’t make, and never HAS made, an F-250 dually.
I guess everyone in this magical land of yours is into truck rear-end conversions. I might search for the rip in the time-space continuum and come out for a visit — sounds like an interesting place for a SuperDuty-head to hang out. :-)
Being that this is Steny Hoyer (*spit*) country (cause there are a LOT of people here stupid enough to think he supposedly saved Pax River from BRAC) I can only hope and pray there's some sense in this state but I'm not holding my breath...
So, MD has NEVER gone REP?
I can’t wait to head out to Glenelg High School to register my vote. I even researched School Board candidates—and I don’t even have kids. I am done with allowing liberals to run the show in this state.
Wrong!! In a deep blue State like yours the expectation is it will remain so and this depresses the Rep voter. However when the turnout is high DESPITE the fact they believe the State will stay blue it means this same excitement among Rep. will ocurr Nationwide and we benefit in those States we can and must win.
“If the republican turn out here is HUGE — FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, than it means that it is very likely that the RED turnout in the swing states — NOT MD — will surprise the pollsters and their +9 dem calculations.”
Sometimes we have to spell our points out...;)
As I said up thread, voting in blue states for the R/R ticket improves their standing nationally (mandate voting.)
Voted at 7:45am this morning in mostly red North Carroll area - no line at all.
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