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**Election Day 2014 - LIVE THREAD**
Free Republic Rocks! | November 4, 2014

Posted on 11/04/2014 2:08:21 AM PST by RKBA Democrat

Happy Election Day everyone! I figured I'd go ahead and get the election day thread started. Polls open on the east coast in a little less than an hour.

Please be sure to post observations of interest if you went to the polls today.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; 2014election; 2014midterms; electionday; electionday2014; live2014election; midtermelection
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Had to vote absentee ballot. Held my nose and voted straight Republican, Pat Roberts included. This needs to be his last term.


121 posted on 11/04/2014 6:18:07 AM PST by navymom1
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To: RKBA Democrat
Here is my chart of the current Senate Predictions. I'm hoping it will be self explanatory. It looks like the experts are thinking 7 net pickups with Kansas not looking good.

Fingers crossed.


122 posted on 11/04/2014 6:19:46 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: HokieMom

Hope you’re right...but I haven’t heard any reports of long lines at precincts anywhere in Virginia (so far). It would be very interesting to hear what’s going on in the D.C. suburbs; Dim Congressional candidates in that area are under-performing and it may put a slight drag on Mark Warner. Of course, we still have to get Republicans out to vote, and Gillespie ran a lack-luster campaign through September and many GOP voters gave up on him weeks ago.


123 posted on 11/04/2014 6:25:35 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: RKBA Democrat
"The various press organizations are now giving a 70% chance that the Republicans will take the Senate. There is a serious deficiency in competence within government everywhere. It appears that the corruption and politics have driven anyone with substance from the field. Who wants to go through all this crazy personal focus if you really are competent? The people who seem to gravitate to politics are those needing attention to verify that they exist. This is a sad state of affairs and it is having the most dramatic impact upon our lives. It is hard to say who is collectively more stupid – politicians or the public who vote for someone really expecting anything to change for the better?

Things just have to get so bad that finally someone will step forward and do the right thing. If not – it’s just meltdown time. The Republicans are stupid and will only see their victory for their philosophies. No one will step forward and say the system has to change. A Republican victory may then set the stage for dramatic change in 2016. Why? Obama is killing the Democratic hopes, and just maybe the dirt on Hillary will surface. She is alleged to be a Lesbian who stays in the closet. When she first took office really running the White House, the Secret Service routinely patrolled the second floor. An agent walked in on Hillary and another woman. Hillary picked up an ashtray and threw it at the agent striking him in the head. When I was first told this story within weeks of them taking office, I said come on – is this what we have to listen to for 4 years? Then the Wall Street Journal published a tiny article saying that the Secret Service was banned from patrolling the second floor because one was inadvertently injured in the head. That was published with the watered-down version to confirm to all of us who knew the allegation behind the curtain was real.

When the economy turns down hard from 2015.75, there will be one year before the 2016 elections. That will be plenty of time to get politics ready to rock and roll. We may just see at last someone willing to step forward to clean house. They will have to start with the bureaucracy who has been the real president going on 16 years running now.

View from Princeton Economics, Martin Armstrong

124 posted on 11/04/2014 6:25:40 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Expect big change from the Republican majority?

I don't. I read this on a Drudge link this morning...

"However, Republicans know their new majority might last only two years, assuming, that is, they first obtain it by picking up those six net seats, as many predict they will."

The 2016 Senate election map is far more favourable to the Democrats. The contest to replace the term-limited President will add further distractions and uncertainty. But Wednesday is the Republicans’ big chance."

With a "2 year majority term-limit", the Republicans will be under pressure (as the House always is) to obey public opinion.

You would expect that to be conservative opinion, but that is not the bent of a rino. They want to look responsible, above the fray, like leaders who compromise to get things done.

In other words, socialist lite.

Expect amnesty. Expect reluctance to oppose stridently, the Obama agenda. Expect no impeachment without shocking revelation.

125 posted on 11/04/2014 6:33:27 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: Cboldt

Yes it is 7 am

I have already voted 3 weeks ago in our early voting..


126 posted on 11/04/2014 6:36:37 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: DB

“So what will they do?”

They will do everything they can to make changes that the MSM won’t report are too radical. They will let Cruz and Lee run wild on the rats, giving minimal support to them. They will negotiate with Obama on several issues to get several of their bills passed. Keystone will happen and the price will be high.

There will be NO threat of impeachment. The media will be able to ride that pony for two years. However, behind closed doors there will be horse trading depending on what Hillary wants.


127 posted on 11/04/2014 6:41:10 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: Jacquerie
Today’s midterms will not change our national course. Enjoy the party tonight. The hangover begins tomorrow.

There are only two possibilities here....

Article V,

or as Jefferson said so eloquently

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. "
128 posted on 11/04/2014 6:43:25 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: RKBA Democrat

FoxNews was reporting on the costs of various mid-term elections.

NC — $114 million (IIRC).

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$114 million for a job that has an annual salary of $174,000.

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For the next presidential race, some are estimating at each major party will spend around $1 Billion.

[Imagine if Obama were paid by the hour of his actual time presidenting, he wouldn’t earn enough to qualify to pay income taxes.]


129 posted on 11/04/2014 6:44:08 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: RKBA Democrat

Well.I just went down to the Fire Hall and voted for Corbett. I wasn’t going to vote at all because I’m sick of the whole mess but thought different. The wife will vote after work.


130 posted on 11/04/2014 6:45:12 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: lodi90
I have said it elsewhere, but I think we are being set up by the MSM and the Dems for a fall. The expectations are so high that anything less than total victory will be viewed and characterized as a defeat.

I am concerned about the Dem massive GOTV machine and voter fraud. Any close election will go to the Dems. I pray for victory, but I fear another Lucy and the football moment. I hope I am dead wrong.

131 posted on 11/04/2014 6:46:10 AM PST by kabar
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To: RKBA Democrat

Voted at 7:30AM in a heavily Democrat suburban district. It was me and the 6 Poll workers..... that’s it. Lord, please...... I pray that every other heavily D district in the country is exactly the same as mine!!


132 posted on 11/04/2014 6:50:36 AM PST by schaef21
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To: schaef21

What was in like in 2008, 2010, 2012 by comparison?


133 posted on 11/04/2014 6:52:56 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: HokieMom

My polling place in Cobb County, Georgia is apparently run and staffed by Mrs. Wiggins (from the old Carol Burnett show) and friends, and was understaffed to boot. Gave new meaning to the term “snail’s pace.” A snail would look like a NASCAR driver in comparison to this crew. Right up there with the post office on its worst day. There weren’t that many people in line when I got there (maybe 50 or so), but the process was taking hours.


134 posted on 11/04/2014 6:53:44 AM PST by Cecily
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To: RKBA Democrat

Bfl


135 posted on 11/04/2014 6:54:44 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: goodnesswins

btt


136 posted on 11/04/2014 6:56:19 AM PST by Normandy
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To: SteveAustin

Was number 289 around 7:20 this AM in Cedarburg. Ozaukee County part of the WOW counties.

Expecting another 6% win for Walker, but we’ll see.


137 posted on 11/04/2014 6:56:51 AM PST by MNlurker
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To: Maine Mariner

****What was in like in 2008, 2010, 2012 by comparison?****

2012 was my first time voting there. Voted approximately the same time and waited in line for over 1/2 hour to vote. This morning...... crickets. I loved it.


138 posted on 11/04/2014 6:58:21 AM PST by schaef21
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To: RKBA Democrat

I always vote at about the same time-between 9 and 10 AM. The polling place was unusually crowded. A busload of seniors from a retirement home was just rolling in as I left.

My precinct is generally pretty quiet, but today was the first time in recent memory that I had to wait in line.

Today was as busy as any presidential election.

Only four races on the ballot-Governor, US House, and State Senate and House.

2 of the four are reliably R, one is a new guy as a result of redistricting (but who campaigned heavily and should win), but the governor is almost surely lost (Corbett).

There are always lots of candidate signs around outside, but this time there were NO Rat signs at all. There were NO Rats handing out literature as I went in.


139 posted on 11/04/2014 7:01:08 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

I was voter #71 at my polling place on the way in to work today. Almost nobody was there since the “early” crowd had already been in and most of the others were already at work.

I ended up voting for Corbett as governor. He’s a disgrace, but seeing Tom Wolf stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Obongo was a sinister portent that I do not care to take farther.

Since my sleazy Republican congressman voted for CISPA and I certainly wasn’t going to vote for his Democrat challenger, I wrote in “Cookie Monster.” Forget R and D; C is for cookie, and that’s good enough for me!

The Republicans will almost certainly retain control of the House, and the two candidates in my district are essentially identical, so that was a race I could afford to cast a protest vote in.


140 posted on 11/04/2014 7:02:18 AM PST by Cato in PA (Resist!)
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