Posted on 04/22/2008 6:26:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Did a search and see nobody has posted a live thread. My wife and I were in to vote about 8 a.m. Turnout is light but steady, about 100 people had voted before us.
Voted against all the party endorsed candidates. My wife was adamant about not wanting to vote for Obama, but admitted she finally did when the news came out this morning that Hillary had opened a double digit polling lead.
We are in suburban Pittsburgh, our precinct actually had a small edge in Republican registration, but unclear if this is still the case with many of us participating in Operation Chaos, not necessarily El Rushbo's version. Pennsylvania voters: Please post your own observations and area.
I would have expected “flocks” to the booth...Unexpected consequence of the in-fighting???
My husband and I got to the polls about 7:45. We were numbers 66 and 67, although the line was light and we waited maybe 5 minutes to vote. I asked the lady there what they expected and she said they didn’t know, but that it had been on the light side. We’re in Bucks County, a suburb of Philadelphia. Lower Bucks is turning Democrat and middle Bucks where we are used to be solidaly Republican but is getting more mixed. Only my husband and one other man held a Democrat ticket; the rest of us were Republicans.
LOLOL!!
Don’t tell me you guys registered as Democrats just to vote for Obama?!!!
Or, is it that you were already Dems?
My wife had to change, but it was very distasteful to her. My two daughters who registered Republican seem to get deleted from the registration rolls everytime they return to college, but my other daughter registered as a Democrat couldn’t get deleted even when she moved out of state, married and specifically requested to get deleted. Nobody can explain why this happens, it just does. So there are a lot of DINOs in this county.
My polling place is usually about 3 to 1 R in primary elections, this morning at 7:10am, I was the 9th R voter versus 19 D’s. The line was short, I waited a total of about 5 minutes, all inside. In the 2004 general, I waited outside for about 20 minutes just to get in the door.
It is a beautiful, clear sunny morning at about 57 degrees in Pittsburgh. Absolutely perfect weather.
Reagan80
Sounds like some funny business going on in Pa. Might be why the justice dept. is monitoring this primary.
I believe the monitoring is taking place in Philly where some precincts have been known to vote in the high 110% range.
That's fine in a general election but they can't have that in a primary. It might cause desention.
I’m sure there will be the usually funny business, but the light turnout early in the day is due to the fact that smelly hippies don’t get up before 10. Not even on “pick your favorite marxist for president day.”
Wish apologies to Rush, I couldn’t bring myself to change my party affiliation to vote for a Rat and I couldn’t bring myself to vote for the three jokers on the GOP ticket (McCain, Paul, and Huckabee) in Adams County, so I just said screw it and went on to work this morning.
You could still vote and write in Duncan Hunter. Is is easy to do on the new machines. I didn’t notice that Hucksterbee was still on the ballot.
Yeah, the Huckster is on the ballot in Adams County at least. I thought about writing in my man Hunter, but decided that it would just be a fruitless gesture and not worth my time since the GOP already has already slammed the door in both his and my face.
My precinct is rural-suburban and mixed, but I think leaning more Pubbie than Democrat. He says it was mostly empty with no wait about 10:30 and he didn't get a # (?) and never thought to ask if they had been busy earlier. He's a lot of help.
He voted for Hillary, wrote in his name for delegate where he could, and wrote in MY name where it said female ONLY. I'm surprised they don't have delegates by skin color, space reserved for gays and transgendered delegates, etc.
I’m a Republican and my wife is an Independent...She reregistered as a Democrat just to vote against the Incubus From Hell....We live in Gettysurg...
When I was just about to enter the polling precinct door a grouchy old bag jumped in front of me and opened the door first, she let the door swing back on me but I caught it in time....I said to myself “I bet this old skank is a Democrat”! When she signed in I noticed that she was!!!
There wasn’t that many voters at 9:AM when I got there...
I’m proud of my wife changing her Party just so she could vote against Hellary though!!!!
Hillary will do anything to get elected. She will bring the disgraced and impeached Bill again to the White House. After eight years of Hill & Bill, then another Bush to be followed by Chelsea? Even if she does not do well today, she will probably hang on - her hope that something bad will happen to Obama.
Speaking of Hellary.....MSNBC just announced that the voting machines are not working properly in most African American polling places in Philly.......That sounds like something a Hllary-Rendell fanatic would do....They are both crooks!
Sounds like Hillary.
What you say is true about something might happen to Obama and that’s why she is still hanging on..I bet that a lot of these political pundits on TV think the same thing but they can’t say it on TV or other media outlets...(It’s not politicaly correct)
Obama would be a fool if he allowed that horrible thing to be his vice president!
I find it pretty sickening that Freepers are willing to vote for Obama. And admit it.
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