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Dave W.
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USA
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 Posted - 11/04/2008 : 08:37:27 [Permalink]
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At 7:30 this morning, I spent a whole 30 minutes combined waiting in line and voting. 36 minutes if you count the time it took to walk between the school and my car (both ways). Not bad at all.
I was given the choice between paper and plastic electronic voting. The paper ballots were being fed into what looked like big shredders. I thought for a minute and decided that I'd have an equal opportunity to verify my vote either way, so chose the marginally faster route of electronic voting.Originally posted by Robb
The statewide results were 55% Obama and 42% McCain and the national results were 60% Obama and 35% McCain. Seems pretty represenattive of what most likely will happen today. |
Actually, the polls for Texas indicate that McCain should win the state by a margin of over 11%, so those school results were highly unrepresentative. What kind of crazy liberal stuff are they teaching 1st graders down there (outside your district)?!
Edited to add that electoral-vote.com has Texas going 52% McCain, 41% Obama. |
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 08:58:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
At 7:30 this morning, I spent a whole 30 minutes combined waiting in line and voting. 36 minutes if you count the time it took to walk between the school and my car (both ways). Not bad at all.
I was given the choice between paper and plastic electronic voting. The paper ballots were being fed into what looked like big shredders. I thought for a minute and decided that I'd have an equal opportunity to verify my vote either way, so chose the marginally faster route of electronic voting.Originally posted by Robb
The statewide results were 55% Obama and 42% McCain and the national results were 60% Obama and 35% McCain. Seems pretty represenattive of what most likely will happen today. |
Actually, the polls for Texas indicate that McCain should win the state by a margin of over 11%, so those school results were highly unrepresentative. What kind of crazy liberal stuff are they teaching 1st graders down there (outside your district)?!
Edited to add that electoral-vote.com has Texas going 52% McCain, 41% Obama.
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Yes they are unrepresentitive for Texas but not nationally which is what I meant. I think the Obama vote for some older students are to piss off thier parents more than anything. I know I told my parents in 6th grade that I would vote for Reagan because my parents were very liberal and I grew up in Minnesota who loved Carter. |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:01:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
Yes they are unrepresentitive for Texas but not nationally which is what I meant. I think the Obama vote for some older students are to piss off thier parents more than anything. I know I told my parents in 6th grade that I would vote for Reagan because my parents were very liberal and I grew up in Minnesota who loved Carter.
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What ages are you talking about? Could Obama be popular amongst the older students because he seems to resonate more with younger voters? Perhaps the results in the mock election reflect this popularity? |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:03:16 [Permalink]
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I got my vote in. I was number 241 in my district. It took about 12 minutes from the time I got in line to the time I walked out of the little voter machine.
I spoke to a friend this morning who's still in Baltimore. She had driven by my old polling place and said that at 7:15, the line was out the door and down the block. Yikes! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:07:01 [Permalink]
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Karl Rove is today predicting an Obama landslide. And his projected election map gives McCain a state or three that I suspect may go Obama.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:10:02 [Permalink]
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Polls open in 15 minutes here. I will wait until the morning rush is over. I'll probably head over there around ten.
It bothers me that A. we vote on a work day (though not for me because I am still recovering from my back thing) and B. that if they are going to keep the voting day on a weekday, they haven't made it a national holiday.
I believe that the way its set up favors employers and white collar Republicans and not so much employees who have jobs to be at. They must scramble to vote before or after work. And one would assume that they make up the largest voting block, and also mostly vote Democratic.
But oh well. I live in a blue state, so that's the good news. And despite the fact that we will know who won, probably before the polls close in the west, which bothers me too, we do have a ballot measure that will bring the Dems out to vote against that would make Gay marriages illegal. I think it will lose. Many of our conservative voters are centrist and do not support the measure either on the grounds that we should not make laws that are religiously motivated. Unlike the bible belt, the RR is not a big a factor here in California. They exist, but they are in the minority among our Republicans.
I'll report back after I have voted...
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chefcrsh
Skeptic Friend
Hong Kong
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:24:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Karl Rove is today predicting an Obama landslide. And his projected election map gives McCain a state or three that I suspect may go Obama.
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Oddly he has exactly what Real Clear Politics has...suppose he stole it from them? |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:32:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Polls open in 15 minutes here. I will wait until the morning rush is over. I'll probably head over there around ten.
It bothers me that A. we vote on a work day (though not for me because I am still recovering from my back thing) and B. that if they are going to keep the voting day on a weekday, they haven't it a national holiday.
I believe that the way its set up favors employers and white collar Republicans and not so much employees who have jobs to be at. They must scramble to vote before or after work. And one would assume that they make up the largest voting block, and also mostly vote Democratic. |
Some history about our Tuesday election day. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 09:43:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Kil
Polls open in 15 minutes here. I will wait until the morning rush is over. I'll probably head over there around ten.
It bothers me that A. we vote on a work day (though not for me because I am still recovering from my back thing) and B. that if they are going to keep the voting day on a weekday, they haven't it a national holiday.
I believe that the way its set up favors employers and white collar Republicans and not so much employees who have jobs to be at. They must scramble to vote before or after work. And one would assume that they make up the largest voting block, and also mostly vote Democratic. |
Some history about our Tuesday election day.
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Right. Weekend voting makes much more sense. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 10:02:02 [Permalink]
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Heading to the polls now. Usually FL (since 2000 anyway) polls have had their shit together. I don't expect any long lines or significant problems.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 10:05:44 [Permalink]
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I'm 63, and I feel this was the most important election I've every participated in. None other comes close.
Smooth voting here in San Leandro, California. Two or three opponents of the anti-gay-marriage Prop 8 were outside the elementary school where the polls are, at a proper distance. (I restrained myself from chanting, "We're here, we're queer, we don't want any more bears!") We got paper ballots, which we completed in rickety little stands, then fed into a shredder scanner. Woo-hoo! I got two "I Voted" stickers, one for me, one for my cane!
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Vic Daring
New Member
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 10:15:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Karl Rove is today predicting an Obama landslide. And his projected election map gives McCain a state or three that I suspect may go Obama.
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You have MO, NC, and IN in the Obama column, I'm guessing.
I actually have Rove's map, except I'm giving Florida to McCain.
Even with that, I have Obama winning 311 to 227 (see earlier post).
If Obama can grab any of the aforementioned states, that's be great, but I'm not counting on it.
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leoofno
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 11:15:07 [Permalink]
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| South Louisiana: With only 5 people in front of me, I was in and out in 8 minutes. However, the precinct next to mine must have had 50 people in line, so I'm guessing about an hours wait for them. I don'y know why the difference. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2008 : 11:31:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Karl Rove is today predicting an Obama landslide. And his projected election map gives McCain a state or three that I suspect may go Obama. |
But is Rove using ordinary math, or is he using THE math? 'Cause there's a difference. And if he's back to using THE math again, then his projection has me sort of freaked out. |
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WarfRat
New Member
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Posted - 11/04/2008 : 11:40:03 [Permalink]
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My polling station was dead. In and out in less than 5 minutes. Though Boston is having some high turnout issues. They should either make this a national holiday or do it on the weekend.
My prediction, this election gets called for OBAMA at 11:00EST and Europe goes wild. |
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