Posted on 11/06/2012 5:23:46 AM PST by PizzaTheHut
In 2008, at around 6:45 AM, in my local polling place in Fairfield, CT, there was a line that went 100 feet down the length of a school hallway and it took about 1/2 hour to get my ballot. Never saw it that crowded. This was the Obama tidal wave.
In 2012, at around 6:45 AM at the same polling place, there were 5 people ahead of me in line. Oh wait, it gets better. Since there are still power outages, this polling place is serving 2 other local districts as well. So, it's 3 polling places in one. Yet, virtually no wait.
Of course, CT is still solid blue and will stay that way, but I just saw first hand of Dem enthusiam being down.
Anyway, I'll be praying for a Romney/Ryan win.
God Bless.
thanks for the input.
Good news, hopefully the GOP will pick up a Senate seat there.
I wonder if this will play into the election and if Romney wins by a comfortable margin if it will become a meme to delegitimize his election. It's ridiculous enough that it does qualify in the top 10 list.
You have to realize, still, that TANF,EITC’ers, WICs, Section 8, SNAPs, don’t get up at 6:30 AM....why the hell should they when their EBTs get charged up automatically?
They ain’t gotta be no place that early!
God willing, yes.
I’m in a Red part of CT and turnout seemed higher than last time. But we are outnumbered by dems in this state so much that if Romney wins Connecticut you can light up that cigar. It will be over for mister Hope and Change.
We need the Senate pickup
I had the same experience this morning when I voted in Hudson County NJ. Very bluest part of the state. Four years ago, at least 50-60 people were in line at 6 AM. This morning, no line at all.
I spoke w/ my Cousin the Uber Law Enforcement dude and Conservative back in the Nutmeg State, and he is not seeing what I see here in Michigan.
And that is a fervor or grassroots to throw the bumbs out, I.E. the Tea-Parties, 912 Project etc.
My fear is all those with that mindset already left for Georgia, NC, SC etc and all that is left other than a handful of Conservatives such as yourself and the rest are a bunch of mind-numbed-Dembots...
Voter turnout high here in Southern Maine. The little towns are clogged.
The Morlocks and Zombies don’t have to get up at all, nor even be drawing breath. The machine votes them automatically.
What convinces you that it was an “obama tidal wave”? You were there and how do you know there weren’t some like minded Americans that were voting for Romney?
Keep in eye on Bridgeport. That’s where they manufactured votes in the past. I hope their are GOP poll watchers. Don’t want any more late night boxes of votes magically appearing there.
i found it kinda interesting that romney was running ads in CT as if it was in play...
In the 1st paragraph he was talking about 2008.
Which part of CT is red ? I’m from Willimantic ( now in Japan , and have been here 27 years ) .
Pray for rain so even less will turn out.
Good report. I was wondering how things would go on the coast.
I’m here in purple north-central CT. We went Obama in 2008 (barely). Same level of traffic as before.
The line at my polling place at 6:00 am in Norwalk, CT was only 1/3 the size that it was in ‘08. Different mood too - in ‘08, the early morning crowd was jovial and optimistic, this morning people had their game faces on. I know that I would have crawled over broken glass to vote.
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