Comments on: Vote!

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:10:43 +0000

yep, Voting was interesting, I went @~15:00, thinking that the lunchtime crowd would have thinned-out by then..guess again. Peep were parked everywhere there wasn’t trees. Had a line of ~100 people, and, from asking around, it was that way all day. We even had, imported, Obama campaign “poll-watchers”.

All tolled, in our district, ~1900/~2550, including ~150 absentee, voted. One of the higher turnouts since 2000. Though, I will say, the media coverage, during the day, was beyond the pale. It certainly seemed like they were ‘projecting’ finishes well before the polls closed. The after-5 voter stream substantively tailed off.

Operation FD: My Mother is a long-time Elections apparatchik.

By: Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:14:22 +0000

Found my card, voted (the main vote was against my house rep, as he voted _for_ the bailouts).. Very pleasant, considering it was after my late lunch…

By: Mannwich

Mannwich — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:26:29 +0000

Just voted here in Minneapolis. About an hour+ wait. Not bad. The line was long but moved pretty efficiently. Miss the old lever machines as well. Ours was filling the circles with a pen and then putting the ballot in a counting machine.

Like I predicted months ago, the turnout for this election is going to be insanely high (for the U.S.). People are storming the polls in big numbers, mostly to repudiate the GOP.

By: Mike in Nola

Mike in Nola — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:09:56 +0000

I-Man

Just read The Chronicle. Texas is a strange mix: much of Houston is pretty liberal-intellectual, e.g. a year or so ago there was a night with Seymour Hersh.I imagine Austin is similar. Yet, in a lot of the state the wacko’s rule. They have 3 fundamentalists on the textbook selection committee and a law that allows teaching a bible course in school as a “history” subject. So the Chronicle usually has some interesting stuff.

Some is so wild you wonder whether it’s toungue-in-cheek:

http://www.chron.com/commons/persona.html?newspaperUserId=jreynolds&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3ajreynoldsPost%3a589f5900-cf9e-458e-abb7-285458815366

By: investorinpa

investorinpa — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:08:27 +0000

stood in line for about 25 minutes outside the door on a crisp but nice day here in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, which is the tightest county in terms of R vs D makeup in the country. Pushed the Barack button and by doing so voted for a democrat for the first time in my life.

By: rlux

rlux — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:56:50 +0000

I miss those big old machines in NYC. You really felt like you were voting when you clicked the little switches and then pulled that big level to record your vote.

The machines we use in our little CA suburb are small and awkward and not at all fun. At least they’re not made by Diebold though.

By: I-Man

I-Man — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:48:48 +0000

Mike in NOLA:

Thats some crazy shit right there buddy… where do you find this stuff???

http://blogs.chron.com/texaspolitics/archives/2008/11/state_official.html

By: Pat G.

Pat G. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:38:47 +0000

Voted in NM last week. We still fill in the circles. With a #2 of course. We’re a poor state.

By: Mike in Nola

Mike in Nola — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:35:22 +0000

I-Man:

The GLD move is probably the crazies expecting armageddon if Obama wins, e.g.

http://blogs.chron.com/texaspolitics/archives/2008/11/state_official.html

and that is one of the sane ones. I know someone in a quiet suburb who is probably stocked up on gold, guns and canned goods.

My daughter back at our house in New Orleans said that a neigborhood grocery was stocked up on Corbell and joked that she would make sure that her Obama sign was prominently displayed tonight. I told her it should have the same effects as lamb’s blood on the door

By: 10 cc

10 cc — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:27:59 +0000

I voted but I would have felt a lot better about it if it *was* on an “old-fangled, lever based, circa 1950 machine”. Unfortunately, it was on one of those “new-fangled, touch-screen, digital machines – which makes me nervous.