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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on November 02, 2010, 11:42:59 AM
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Just got back from the polls. The board will be happy to note that the Quaker voted for only two Democrats, and none in national races. However I am pissed! No line, 8 people in the room voting, and this was at lunch time. >:( What in the HELL are people thinking? I can only hope that the low turnout reflects a lot of early and absentee voting. What gets me is that I live in a solid middle class, mostly white neighborhood with lots of seniors. Statistically, the most likely voters. Where were they? Oddly, most of the voters were black. First time I've seen that since '08. This was encouraging in the sense that they are actually getting to the polls. If BO did nothing else good he seems to have at least mobilized a group of folks who did more bitching than voting in the past. Still, it is not good news for the GOP. I have no idea how the state will break, but based on a totally unscientific snapshot of who showed up to vote at noon in a mostly white district? Well, I don't think its a good day for the GOP in my precinct.
FQ13
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Same here, (except for the blacks ) There were more people outside waving signs than were inside voting, there were 3 people voting and one BSing with one of the clerks.
That was between 11:30 and 11:45.
Hopefully the old folks will get out this afternoon, saw several in the local Coffee shop, and every one else will be there after work.
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Old folks, retired, don't vote during the morning before work rush, the lunch time rush or the after work rush.
They get there licks in outside of prime time.
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At 7:00 am when I went to vote, there was a line when I showed up and by the time I left, the line stretched out the door. I was #11 at my location.
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Rather impressive numbers of people voted by absentee ballot or during early voting in my neck-o-the-woods. The poll numbers have suggested that smaller turnouts will mean larger wins for the conservatives. I have my fingers crossed. I don't think the country can survive 2 more years of an unchecked Odamna.
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I early voted last week. There was a line at 3pm on a Thursday, in a county that has less than 10,000 people (not registered voters, total population).
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Hi;
I voted @ 1pm and was #292 on the talley. This is about normal for my area. Most will be voting after work.
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Vote?! Is that today?? Is it too late to register?
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I voted weeks ago absentee (as I normally do). Here in this little place the polls don't open till noon anyway. I will ask my wife after she goes this afternoon to see how it was.
-Bidah
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I voted by mail weeks ago. Why wait to stand in line with the cattle? You might wind up touching a liberal, and God only knows where they've been! Bill T.
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Vote?! Is that today?? Is it too late to register?
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Go for it you old fur ball!
Just look out for those hanging chads ;D
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I voted this noon! I rode in on my American assembled bike (can't say that for the next one most likely :'(); I wore ten pounds of heavy black bovine hide; and I accessorized with a S&W 1911 tucked in a Bianchi #120 + two spare mags and 25 rounds of Hornady Critical Defense in .45acp, a Ruger LCP in a TNT Custom Leather + two spare mags and 19 rounds of Hornady in .380, a S&W ExtremeOps 3 incher, and a SureFire 6P Defender.
I voted my conscience, and am proud to have done so! I even defied the judge's ruling and made them look at my ID rather than just telling them who I was.
FQ: Are you saying you DIDN'T vote for BHO this time, or did you write him in somewhere ;)
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Old folks, retired, don't vote during the morning before work rush, the lunch time rush or the after work rush.
They get there licks in outside of prime time.
Not in Florida, the blue hairs here make it a point to be out and completely in the way during morning rush hour, right at the crack of noon and again at 5 without fail. God forbid I try to run in to the grocery store during lunch so I don't have to go later when I've got kid(s) with me because there's always someone with a walker and a handful of coupons counting out pennies or using the 5 extra minutes I've got to spare to learn how to use that new fangled debit card their kids talked them into getting. By the time they finish telling the clerk about their little kitty and his trip to the vet for its bowel obstruction I'm ready to kick their cane out from under them. Then I take a deep breath and think of my grandparents and try to get to my car and out of the lot before they get in theirs at the handicap spot and get in front of me so they can drive 18 in a 45 all the way back to my office. And people wonder why I take my lunch most days.
I voted around 10 because I was already out for a dentist appointment and there were about 20 voters total inside and a bunch of senior meanderers sitting out front clogging the entrance area while sipping coffee waiting for their 10 minute sign waving shift.
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There weren't a lot of voters when I went in about 3:30. I think I was #267. No idea how many people are in my precinct. I don't even know how many precincts there are. I wish I knew.
P.S. I had to vote for one Democrat. He got an "A" rating from the NRA.
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Went to the Middle School at 7:30 a.m. Line out the door. Only took 15-20 minute wait. Nice and steady. School was closed, but the folks were coming in strong, and the lot was about full when I was done.
Charlie Crist, will be politically unemployed by the end of the day. ;D One less RINO!!!
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I went to work at 5:00 this morning, the Town Hall next to my house was already getting set up for the polling.
I had a root canal at 2:30 and came home, kissed the wife and pat the mutt on the head, walked down the front steps, got my mail and walked the 75 feet to town hall. Right across the street was a middle aged woman holding a ten foot Gadsden flag. ;)
My wife said there's been a steady stream of cars all day in our little burg here in SE Connecticut. Since I just moved here, I just figuratively yanked the handle with the big "R" next to it and walked home.
Time will tell.....2-1/2 hours to go!
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Me and the wife both voted last week.
Our 19 year old and his girlfriend both just came in from exercising their duty for the very first time (yes, I am proud of them). He said when he went in, there were several open machines, and when he left, the line went out the door and around the end of the building.
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My area is reporting above average Voter turnouts...
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My wife & I voted at 3:30 and we was # 74 & 75