The voting judge said it has been like that since the polls opened.
Yes GOP big turnout in blue states very good sign swing states.
I’ve seen that, too, in Howard County. LOTS of large 4X8 Romney signs beside the highways and secondary roads. Plenty of Romney bumper stickers. Very few 2012 Obama bumper stickers, and no yard signs to speak of. Only old, faded & peeling Obama 2008 bumper stickers. I was confused by it at first.
Line are heavy here in Southern Md.
My advice to people is. “ Don’t go through Anacostia tonight.”
There is going to wailing in the street.
“even if unlikely to go our way in our state”
I would kindly suggest that we not use phrases like this. ANYTHING is possible for this election and we need to stand firm on the the belief that Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan will win these states.
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again: I believe that Romney/Ryan are going to win states not traditionally won by Republicans.
We are believing for a Romney/Ryan landslide/blowout! Let’s all stand together and believe for victory, including states like Maryland!
That’s awesome! I wonder how things were at my old polling place in Baltimore. The lines were pretty long there in 2008.
We now live in Denver (first time my vote counts...whoo hoo!), and there was no line at all this morning. Of course, we have early voting. I also live in a very liberal neighborhood.
ping for the fault to lie on you...
I am about to leave to go vote myself. Quick snap poll of people voting from my job site today is 5 Romney 3 Obama.
I pray that trend is nation wide.
I never would have thought a heavy turnout in a deep blue state like Maryland would be a good thing. But after reading your post, not so sure. Any word on the turnout in heavy Dem strongholds in Baltimore?
Part of the high turnout may be due to a number of high profile initiatives on the ballot this time (e.g., gambling and several other issues). But I do think you’re right that Republican enthusiasm is very high, even in the perma-blue state of Maryland.
“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.”
This is called ‘mandate’ voting. We want Pres. Romney/VP Ryan to win by as many votes nationally as possible. In that way, your vote DOES count (as does mine here in sadly blue WA State.)
You live in the Damascus/Mt Airy area, which is very conservative. Every second person there is driving an F-250 dually. In other words, you live in America. This has nothing in common with the People’s Socialist Democratic Republic of Montgomery, where everything is Bush’s fault.
Lines were long in upper Baltimore County, 5th district. People up here upset over the complete idiocy of the redistricting, among other things. For instance, my rep is now Elijah Cummings - really good fit, right? A lot of people I spoke with voting “No” on just about all of the referendums.
Took us 40 minutes, and normally we have good turnout but this was a great turnout.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...