Some polls in Indiana and Kentucky are closed now. It’ll only be about an hour or so before they can start reporting any numbers.
Ayeeeeeeeee!
I voted early on Thursday in case of a rush at my polling place this morning. Out of curiosity I drove by it on my way to work and it was pretty calm. It probably would have been faster today. Que so what.
I’m back! (from page one–gosh you guys “talk” a lot!).
There were maybe 5 people in line ahead of me at 0710. 3 of them wanted to use the electronic machine, so I went with paper. HUGE broadsheet of a thing–2 of them. I had done my homework re the judges (for the first time in my voting life-go me), and of course, I voted for the other candidates as well. Also, a first: I neither overvoted or undervoted. Go me.
Poll workers told me that when they opened up at 0600 there were 190 people in line (probably downtown commuters). This is a small precinct and they said that sometimes they have had as few as 300 people ALL day. I hope their numbers continued, although it doesn’t matter much (given that I live in Cook County).
I was not ALLOWED to go home today, despite a very low census, due to the hospital being on Alert status for the Special Event planned tonight. I am off tomorrow, but those who are working cannot be canceled, even though we only have 4 patients, for the same reason. But I think Chicagoans are gonna do Chicago proud tonight. Everyone I met today was sunny, polite and courteous. Wonderful atmosphere–the very air infected with hope. I asked my 3 pts (all over 70, all African American) if they had voted. All of them had voted last week. I wore my “I Voted” sticker with pride today. 
I found a great stress reliever for election day jitters–I logged on to mybarackobama.com and did some online phone banking in Ohio and Indiana. Couldn’t do too much since it’s near the end of the month and I’m working from my cell phone, but it was cool and everybody I talked to had already voted, yay! I feel a little more centered.
In 2004 I had quite the rant at all the little call center kiddies I worked with who were proud that they didn’t vote. I was already in a pissy mood and I had a nice time explaining to them why it’s no kind of a “protest” or a “statement” to not vote or participate in the franchise. It’s the one real duty of a citizen, and they muffed it. I bet they vote THIS time! 
The wait for results is killing me.
Pours MsWhatsit a glass of Macallan, chilled into a rocks glass.
Man, NY Times’ results/whatnot are starting to eek in. Indiana and NH leaning Obama; Kentucky leading McCain.
Gonna be a long night no matter what.
Total time spent voting in Burbank CA…
6 minutes!
That was at 11:30 am. The lines will pick up
around 6:00.
It seems the country is watching the results
for Prop 8. To discriminate, or not discriminate…
My wife voted around 6pm. It was pretty much no wait for her again. She saw mainly commuters but that is not surprising. They were up to between 800 and 1000 votes by then. My town has 10 voting districts in all and about a max of 8600 voters. So the turnout looks like it is going to be very high.
I just heard 2 states officially called: Kentucky is going McCain and Vermont is going Obama. Surprise, surprise. Chime in when you hear a state officially called.
I drove by the Biltmore Hotel (McCain’s concession speech home) a few minutes ago. Lots of police presence but looked more like people were heading to a state funeral.
Early polls are showing that Dems may get that magic number of 60 in the Senate. At least Obama might have a fully friendly Senate nad House to work with.
I haven’t had time to read all of the thread tonight, but I wanted to drop in here to shout a huge THANK YOU! We got all of our walk packets done here a couple of hours ago, with the help of the Oklahoma volunteers. Woohoo! Lots of Obama voters, amongst the ones we found at home. One woman whispered furtively that she did not want her nieghbors to know she voted for Obama–in a very republican neighborhood. 
I still think MO will be very close. Thank you to all who have come here and called here to help us!
Went to vote at about 6:20 this morning and there was a nice long line. I had to get to work, so I went again this afternoon at about 3:30ish, and I was the only one in the place. I think the big lines were in the morning (and possibly after 5PM).
I generally avoid the back and forth up-to-the-second election coverage. I think I’m just going to tune in periodically to see what’s going on, instead of hanging off the edge of my seat while staring zombie-like at the election coverage.
i got to the polling place at 7:20 am. i passed my next door neighbours on the way to the line. they had just left.
i was on page 96 of my book when i got into line. i stopped reading at 10 to 8am on page 122. did the sign in thing and was number 103. walked out at 7:54am.
then went to obama headquarters. for the day. wild times there!
then i got home and met up again with my next door neighbour. this time i asked what number he was. 29.
i must say the line didn’t look that long!
msnbc just called pa for obama!!! the electorial count is 103-34 so far!
gobama!!!
Great work! That’s what happens when we keep fighting hard – we end up rocking the vote!
I think I’m going to get offline soon and stroll around to my polling place just to see what’s up (they close at 9:00 EST.
I am so proud of you, Florida.