I posted this in another thread, but it fits here, too:
Downtown NYC — lower Manhattan (near the former WTC).
Fairly blue district, so I know that Obamessiah and Nadler (our big-mouth, big-assed congresscritter) will win here, but I vote anway, as I always do. Nearby Battery Park City has more Repubs than I thought would be there, and there are quite a few people here in the Financial District who moved here from out of state and can lean a little right.
We have multiple Election Districts (determined by address and pretty much exist to make people stand in different lines) in each polling place, and the one for NY’s 8th ED was out the door and down the street. A few hundred young, mostly white people. I have NEVER seen so many people voting here, and I have no idea where all these people came from. I thought they might be from the NYU housing high-rise nearby, but they’re in the 9th ED.
I had just gotten on line when a poll worker walked around and tried to make sure that people were on the right line. When I showed him my card, he sent me inside and after getting around a few winding lines, I found my ED — and became the 3rd person on line. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. I went a little after 11 a.m. and was somewhere between the 150th and 200th voter of the day in my ED.
I actually skipped a few contests — mostly judicial elections in which the candidates were endorsed by both parties (I refuse to play along with that crap).
And I think a lib is more likely to give up and leave than a “broken glass conservative”.
Bless you for the update. Thanks for the post. Re: the voters who gave up to get back to work; employers can’t punish employees for voting. I suspect this is just personal frustration and this is just MHO but I think republicans are more likely to withstand the weather and wait to fend off any chance of Obama than dems are because they think its in the bag.
NYC had school today? Here in my county in VA, schools are used as polling places - so no school.
Waiting also limits fraud. You can’t vote 10 times if you have to wait. And wait. And wait. :-)
I voted in Bloomington MN this morning. A Minneapolis suburb that tilts slightly to the left. No bumper stickers on any cars, somewhat a good sign, since we know what bumperstickerphiles liberals are.
Saw about 5 black voters out of a hundred (probably a little high for Bloomington)
Then I drove into Minneapolis, a liberal bastion of demonry. I saw many groups of people women with hair died red like raggedy ann wearing combat boots with skinny guys with nose rings looking too happy for their own good.
The opposite held true in Harlem where the lines were stretched for blocks.
Upstate NY - I had 5 people ahead of me at 7 am and waited a whole 10 minutes. I was agitated but waited it out.
obama types have little self control and attention spans so maybe they’d give up too fast
Some results from that:
1) Harder for people to vote multiple times if they have to stay in line at each polling location = reduction in that type of vote fraud.
2) Obama voters in NYC might decide “Hey, Obama’s going to win NY anyway, screw it”
We will see how this affects NY totals
Yes, that's why they're alway suing to keep the polls open later. If you're in line at the time the polls close, you'll get to vote, but only if you wait. If your state party leadership can find a sympathetic judge to say having to wait is unfair, you can get the hours extended to 10 pm or so. And then you can just cruise up to the polls at 9:45 or so and vote without waiting at all.
I grew up and lived on the UWS until only a few years ago, and one of my strangest experiences was going to vote (at a building on Riverside Drive) and having the illiterate they had hired from the shelter try to check my name against the names in the book. Even the cop was laughing - the poor woman couldn’t even identify the first letter, and I had to turn the page to the correct first letter. Then she began to point to one name after another and ask me if it was my name. Being honest, I actually showed her my name on the page, signed it, and only voted once.
Before that, I used to vote at PS 165 (where I had gone to school many years before) and which was also a hellish experience because of the festival of EDs gathered into one single, disgusting, smelly elementary-school cafeteria...
"It's the rebellion and lawlessness, 'stupid.' It's Obama's hatred of America's Rights of Life, Liberty, and Property. It‘s the Marxism." PERIOD.
"It's the rebellion and lawlessness, 'student.' It's Obama's hatred of America's Rights of Life, Liberty, and Property. It‘s the Marxism." PERIOD.