I was number 304 just before 11AM in Richland Township, which is Hemlock.
Mr. P called after he got to work, he passes Ingersoll Twp. hall on his way, it’s south of Midland and rural. The lot was full and there was a line out the door. He said he’s never seen that in all the years he’s been going by there on his way to work on election day - 22 years.
This is a Chik Fil-A Epic Save Our Country Silent Majority Speaks Up type of turnout.
Wow.
5 people is usually a line in my precinct but there were at least 30 people in line the whole time I was there.
This nation, and our state — except for Detroit/Flint/Saginaw — has always been center-right. It’s just that we let the little kids (AKA “liberal college students”) take over government because we talked ourselves into a sense of fatigue in 2008. I knew we’d had it when our candidate, John McCain, told a campaign rally, late in the election, “You have nothing to fear from a president Obama.” Sure, John: How’d that work out for you and for all of us?
I love John McCain to death, and he’s retired Navy like me and he SUFFERED MASSIVELY for his country as a POW, but what was he thinking back then? That his “honorable campaign” thing was going to work against viciously rabid liberal partisans? Well, now we have a chance to right the ship and put it back on a navigable course plot. And I think we will and that today’s election, at least nationwide and in the Electoral College, isn’t going to be all that close.
Michigan’s a bit tighter, but only because of Wayne/Macomb (I don’t see Oakland going to the Dems) and a couple of areas like Flint/Saginaw and the UofM neighborhoods. Like I said; we put government in the hands of liberal college students and their shabby radical-chic professors and look what we got in return. Romney could pull it off with Oakland and a strong out-state vote plus a decline in Dem enthusiasm in their stronghold areas. “The thrill is gone” for Barack Obama, to quote the immortal B.B. King. ;-)