Obama Has Already Won...

[Conan71]

...in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, NH.

Neat tradition, 100% turnout.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_el_pr/new_hampshire_first_votes

[waterboy]

Any guess as to the turnout here and nationally? I'm guessing 65% nationally and 51% in OK.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

Any guess as to the turnout here and nationally? I'm guessing 65% nationally and 51% in OK.

As in total pop or registered voters?

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

Any guess as to the turnout here and nationally? I'm guessing 65% nationally and 51% in OK.

Did anyone experience the traffic/mess on Yale between 91st-111th streets? Voter lines are huge.  

Hat tip to the folks running the voting precincts at Trinity Presbyterian on 111th. Served coffe and donuts and the line really moved.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by guido911

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

Any guess as to the turnout here and nationally? I'm guessing 65% nationally and 51% in OK.

Did anyone experience the traffic/mess on Yale between 91st-111th streets? Voter lines are huge.  

Hat tip to the folks running the voting precincts at Trinity Presbyterian on 111th. Served coffe and donuts and the line really moved.

That used to be my precinct.  I vote at the Church across from Lanier these days.  I was warned about 8am to wait a couple hours to go vote.

[guido911]

PUMA's reporting that Fox News just called Alaska for McCain/Palin:

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=40480

Shocka!

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

Any guess as to the turnout here and nationally? I'm guessing 65% nationally and 51% in OK.

As in total pop or registered voters?

Registered. I would guess the %'s would be pretty dismal if they were voting age population.

I was #472 at 10am at my precinct. I just missed the rush. Everyone's energized. Saw Lucky Lamons. I see that guy everywhere!

[carltonplace]

I was number 6, but I got in line at 6:10 AM. It was really nice to talk to all of the neighbors. By 7 AM when the polls opened, the line was at least 125 people and growing.

[Townsend]

I was there at 6:59 and was the 51st person.  I wish those people would make it out every election.

[RecycleMichael]

What a great time.

I was 60th in line when I voted. It took me exactly 38 minutes.

There was one couple that sat in the window and discussed every issue for over 30 minutes. I went much faster. I limited my coin flips to best out of three instead of the more precise best out of seven.

I loved voting on all the different things. We got to be fer or agin everything from liquor to hunting, from roads to judges and commissioners to congressmen.

I would do it again. I would even buy someone else's ballots on E-Bay if I could. I had a great time seeing the neighbors and cancelling out their votes. Cancelled votes count just as much as other votes.

Let's do it again next Tuesday!

[Gaspar]

The celebration is beginning in Kenya.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5082040.ece

This has really become an international election.  For that I am very proud of my country.

[pmcalk]

I voted at 9 am, and about 150 had voted--not that great of a turnout, but my precinct has one of the lowest voter turn out in the city.

Hey, Waterboy, keep in mind that there were two pages voting, so if the machine read 472, then actually 236 people had voted before you.  Still pretty good for our precinct.

[Neptune]

Number 73, got there at 7:10 AM, voted at 7:50 AM.

Good lines starting out the morning over around New Haven and 26th.

Fired all the judges.

[Gaspar]

6:30 at 101st and Yale.  About #15 in line.  By 6:45, parking lot was full and the line was at least 200 strong.  People were parking across the street at the shopping center and along the ditch on the sides of the road.

Inside they were not prepared at all for the crowd.  Lines were crossing and people had to fight across the lines to get a spot to mark their ballets.  

Someone had set several copies of the RolingStone magazine with Obama on the cover on the ground outside and inside the lobby, and one of the officials had to run around and grab them up in the first few minutes of polling.

It was nice to see such a strong turnout.

[cks511]

6:40am at West 48th and 25th West Ave,  I was third in line.  7:08 the lot was full and I quit counting at 100.  The staff were looking at each other going UH-OH!