Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the next governer of the great state of Texas, KINKY FRIEDMAN!!!
Well, not really, but hey, until the polling stations close, it’s anybody’s race.
More or less locally ( if you live in Contra Costa county, anyway ) the Pombo-McNerney race may be tight.
- Tamerlane
I voted this morning before work. Lines weren’t that long when I voted, but I guess turnout had been high earlier. (I voted around 8:30). I asked one of the party representatives handing out fliers how turnout looked, and he said that he had been counting, and as of 8:15, there had been 348 voters, which is pretty high for just two hours of voting.
Kind of a funny story. When I got there, there were maybe about 15-20 people lined up outside to vote. One of the poll workers stepped out, and asked “Is there anyone here with a last name beginning from A to K?” I was the only one in the line who was, so I managed to skip ahead and vote right away. Either the L-Z poll workers were really incompetent and slow, or we’re seeing massive turnout by people whose names are at the end of the alphabet.
I suppose with the 6,000 House seats our state gets there’s bound to be a few that are close. I think the Democrat in my district got something like 70% of the vote last time. It’ll probably be 90% this time. 
And the all-important Libertarian vote? How goes the rise to world domination?
By the by, did you get a bet down with Scylla? He’s giving 4 to 1 on the Pubbies, last I heard.
Thank God for lax rounding practices, otherwise the Libs wouldn’t show up in the final % tallies. 0.x% is a good guess.
Well, all you Dems on the board should be proud. I went out bright and early to vote this morning and to my great surprise…we had switched from our nice new (costly) electronic voting machines to…
wait for it…
PAPER BALLOTS! And it was taking a hell of a lot longer to vote than usual…lines were out the door, folks were grumbling…and Dems were wetting themselves with glee that we had taken such a giant step (back). You could actually watch your paper ballot scanned into the vote counting machine, and there was a little read out that gave your voter ID when it was scanned…in theory signifying that your vote had in fact been counted. Impossible to get around THAT high tech device, I’m sure.
So rejoice Dems! We are back to paper ballots here in the great state of New Mexico (well, at least in my district)! :smack:
For the record I voted straight Dem ticket except for Wilson…she is the only Pub I voted for and thats because the woman she is running against, hispanic though she be, is a flaming bitch and corrupt as hell…IMHO. More a devil you know kind of situation. I didn’t vote for the Dems because I figured they would do a better job mind you…just pissed off at the Pubs, and there are no independent candidates that run at this level, at least not in NM. Observations were…didn’t seem to be any more voters than usual, just seemed to be taking a LOT longer to vote (and ironically people were screwing up the paper ballots left and right, and had to be instructed on how to use them properly).
-XT
Another lurching step away from the path of political error. We are almost as proud of you as we are of ourselves.
In my mid-Michigan precinct, I was #230 at 8:30. My wife was #734 at 1:00. The pollworker told her that they had never had an election with >1000 votes in that precinct, looks like a cinch to top this with 7 hours to go over that mark. She works another precinct and was called in early to help out because they’re getting deluged.
We have optical scans that we fill in at small standup booths. There is a booth that you can sit down in if you have trouble standing and there is also a booth with headphones and some type of apparatus for our sight-impaired voters.
Yeah, I saw that. I told him that even Bill Kristol is predicted a 30 seat gain by the Dems in the House. That seems a bit high to me-- not impossible, mind you, but just not likely. I’m thinking closer to 20, but that’s guide a wide a margin of error (on the upside, not the down). I’m still thinking the Senates stays in the Pubbies hands with 50/50 split at the most (Cheney gets the tie break vote).
BTW, who is this Nancy Pelosi woman I keep hearing about the news lately. 
Got a call the other evening that asked me if I was aware that Claire McCaskill was in favor cloning human babies only to kill them for stem cell research.
Said, “Yes.”
Felt on top of the world for the rest of the night.
I will be casting my vote against Jerry Lewis after work, for all the good it will do. His district is so solidly Republican that even his ranking as one of the “20 Most Corrupt Congressmen” won’t cost him more than a percentage point or two.
The propositions are where the action is this year.
Whore of Babylon, cups of fornication, that sort of thing.
Sunny and 75 deg @ 11:00am here in beautiful NorCal. Eat you’re heart out.
Sunny (always), low to mid 60’s expected as the high’s, high 40’s for lows…and its been like this for over a month here in beautiful New Mexico. Just for the record you understand…
(From a guy who wouldn’t live in California on a bet 
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-XT
Sen Arlen Spectre was just on, worrying about how the “Impeach Bush!” movement will paralyze the process and erode the bi-partisan congeniality of Congress.
So, he was raising the specter of impeachment, huh?