Fingers crossed.
Posted on 11/04/2014 2:08:21 AM PST by RKBA Democrat
Happy Election Day everyone! I figured I'd go ahead and get the election day thread started. Polls open on the east coast in a little less than an hour.
Please be sure to post observations of interest if you went to the polls today.
Had to vote absentee ballot. Held my nose and voted straight Republican, Pat Roberts included. This needs to be his last term.
Fingers crossed.
Hope you’re right...but I haven’t heard any reports of long lines at precincts anywhere in Virginia (so far). It would be very interesting to hear what’s going on in the D.C. suburbs; Dim Congressional candidates in that area are under-performing and it may put a slight drag on Mark Warner. Of course, we still have to get Republicans out to vote, and Gillespie ran a lack-luster campaign through September and many GOP voters gave up on him weeks ago.
"The various press organizations are now giving a 70% chance that the Republicans will take the Senate. There is a serious deficiency in competence within government everywhere. It appears that the corruption and politics have driven anyone with substance from the field. Who wants to go through all this crazy personal focus if you really are competent? The people who seem to gravitate to politics are those needing attention to verify that they exist. This is a sad state of affairs and it is having the most dramatic impact upon our lives. It is hard to say who is collectively more stupid – politicians or the public who vote for someone really expecting anything to change for the better?Things just have to get so bad that finally someone will step forward and do the right thing. If not – it’s just meltdown time. The Republicans are stupid and will only see their victory for their philosophies. No one will step forward and say the system has to change. A Republican victory may then set the stage for dramatic change in 2016. Why? Obama is killing the Democratic hopes, and just maybe the dirt on Hillary will surface. She is alleged to be a Lesbian who stays in the closet. When she first took office really running the White House, the Secret Service routinely patrolled the second floor. An agent walked in on Hillary and another woman. Hillary picked up an ashtray and threw it at the agent striking him in the head. When I was first told this story within weeks of them taking office, I said come on – is this what we have to listen to for 4 years? Then the Wall Street Journal published a tiny article saying that the Secret Service was banned from patrolling the second floor because one was inadvertently injured in the head. That was published with the watered-down version to confirm to all of us who knew the allegation behind the curtain was real.
When the economy turns down hard from 2015.75, there will be one year before the 2016 elections. That will be plenty of time to get politics ready to rock and roll. We may just see at last someone willing to step forward to clean house. They will have to start with the bureaucracy who has been the real president going on 16 years running now.
I don't. I read this on a Drudge link this morning...
"However, Republicans know their new majority might last only two years, assuming, that is, they first obtain it by picking up those six net seats, as many predict they will."The 2016 Senate election map is far more favourable to the Democrats. The contest to replace the term-limited President will add further distractions and uncertainty. But Wednesday is the Republicans’ big chance."
With a "2 year majority term-limit", the Republicans will be under pressure (as the House always is) to obey public opinion.
You would expect that to be conservative opinion, but that is not the bent of a rino. They want to look responsible, above the fray, like leaders who compromise to get things done.
In other words, socialist lite.
Expect amnesty. Expect reluctance to oppose stridently, the Obama agenda. Expect no impeachment without shocking revelation.
Yes it is 7 am
I have already voted 3 weeks ago in our early voting..
“So what will they do?”
They will do everything they can to make changes that the MSM won’t report are too radical. They will let Cruz and Lee run wild on the rats, giving minimal support to them. They will negotiate with Obama on several issues to get several of their bills passed. Keystone will happen and the price will be high.
There will be NO threat of impeachment. The media will be able to ride that pony for two years. However, behind closed doors there will be horse trading depending on what Hillary wants.
FoxNews was reporting on the costs of various mid-term elections.
NC — $114 million (IIRC).
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$114 million for a job that has an annual salary of $174,000.
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For the next presidential race, some are estimating at each major party will spend around $1 Billion.
[Imagine if Obama were paid by the hour of his actual time presidenting, he wouldn’t earn enough to qualify to pay income taxes.]
Well.I just went down to the Fire Hall and voted for Corbett. I wasn’t going to vote at all because I’m sick of the whole mess but thought different. The wife will vote after work.
I am concerned about the Dem massive GOTV machine and voter fraud. Any close election will go to the Dems. I pray for victory, but I fear another Lucy and the football moment. I hope I am dead wrong.
Voted at 7:30AM in a heavily Democrat suburban district. It was me and the 6 Poll workers..... that’s it. Lord, please...... I pray that every other heavily D district in the country is exactly the same as mine!!
What was in like in 2008, 2010, 2012 by comparison?
My polling place in Cobb County, Georgia is apparently run and staffed by Mrs. Wiggins (from the old Carol Burnett show) and friends, and was understaffed to boot. Gave new meaning to the term “snail’s pace.” A snail would look like a NASCAR driver in comparison to this crew. Right up there with the post office on its worst day. There weren’t that many people in line when I got there (maybe 50 or so), but the process was taking hours.
Bfl
btt
Was number 289 around 7:20 this AM in Cedarburg. Ozaukee County part of the WOW counties.
Expecting another 6% win for Walker, but we’ll see.
****What was in like in 2008, 2010, 2012 by comparison?****
2012 was my first time voting there. Voted approximately the same time and waited in line for over 1/2 hour to vote. This morning...... crickets. I loved it.
I always vote at about the same time-between 9 and 10 AM. The polling place was unusually crowded. A busload of seniors from a retirement home was just rolling in as I left.
My precinct is generally pretty quiet, but today was the first time in recent memory that I had to wait in line.
Today was as busy as any presidential election.
Only four races on the ballot-Governor, US House, and State Senate and House.
2 of the four are reliably R, one is a new guy as a result of redistricting (but who campaigned heavily and should win), but the governor is almost surely lost (Corbett).
There are always lots of candidate signs around outside, but this time there were NO Rat signs at all. There were NO Rats handing out literature as I went in.
I was voter #71 at my polling place on the way in to work today. Almost nobody was there since the “early” crowd had already been in and most of the others were already at work.
I ended up voting for Corbett as governor. He’s a disgrace, but seeing Tom Wolf stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Obongo was a sinister portent that I do not care to take farther.
Since my sleazy Republican congressman voted for CISPA and I certainly wasn’t going to vote for his Democrat challenger, I wrote in “Cookie Monster.” Forget R and D; C is for cookie, and that’s good enough for me!
The Republicans will almost certainly retain control of the House, and the two candidates in my district are essentially identical, so that was a race I could afford to cast a protest vote in.
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