Voters -- American Badasses

[cured]

Karl Rove released his final map and it looks exactly the same as mine.

[IsiliRunite]

I realized recently that a larger percentage of eligible americans vote than united kingdom citizens do. Losers!

Too bad I have to go in at 4:30...

[Troy McClure]

I found this via Huffington Post just now.

http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2...y-2-years-ago/
Exactly two years ago, SurveyUSA completed interviews with 600 voters in every state (30,000 total interviews), asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Based on those interviews, SurveyUSA was able to report that:
In November 2006, Obama carried …

1. His home state of Illinois.
2. His birth state of Hawaii.
3. The District of Columbia.

In November 2006, Obama got 28 total electoral votes.
In November 2006, John McCain carried 48 states, and rolled up 510 electoral votes.
How far has Barack Obama come in 24 months?
We’ll know for sure Tuesday night.

[viddy]

It took me 2 hours to vote. This is my first time voting, so I don't know if this is longer than usual. I seem to be getting the vibe that it is.

[dubman]

there was no line at my polling place

then again i live in a cowtown.

[Deckard]

From Justin Webb's BBC blog...

"Out and about this morning in Northern Virginia and DC I met all the expected enthusiasm, though no long lines - no signs of people turning up and going away again. But this fact in itself is causing concern among Democrats: where is the turnout, they murmur? Where is the record-breaking surge (I am talking now about Virginia in particular) which could propel Obama to the White House? The answer may well be that the surge came early. Or will come later. Or..."


Oh God.

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and be told that you guys somehow managed to re-elect George Bush, I just know it.

[gambit]

Well, a lot of people did vote early and with absentee ballots. Also, most people are working during the day.

[Sean]

There'll probably be an upswing after work at the end of the day. I know that's when I'll be going. But in a meeting I had this morning with 6 other people, I think three voted early. So maybe a big chunk has already voted.

Aside from that, I saw a polling place just down the street from work that had a pretty long line, and as the polls opened by my house there was a long line too. The line was gone a couple hours later though. We'll see, but I sure hope everyone's voting.


EDIT - Okay, here we go. The L.A. Times is reporting voters already turning out in record numbers. By noon, 38.1% of L.A. County registered voters had already cast their ballots compared to 33.4% in 2004. That doesn't sound huge, but considering that there are 4.3 million registered voters here, that means an extra 202,100 people.

[cured]

There are a LOT of people out there voting today, make no mistake about that.

I understand this guy is in the tank for Obama but check his blog:

http://www.andrewsullivan.com

he is posting messages from voters at the polling places.

[cured]

I waited 0 seconds to vote. I guess I got there at the right time as night time voting tends to take awhile.

1 vote for Obama/Biden, check.