But you have a nice sig.
Just came back form the caucus, and it was a MAD HOUSE. way more people than I have ever seen at one. In my precinct Clinton had 100 votes, Obama 241. My brother’s precinct, a few miles away, had Clinton 115, Obama 351.
Any hint as to where the Zen Arcade is? How were folks divided?
Minnesota has just been called for Minnesota by Fox. I guess it was the same everywhere here.
oops.
Thanks to Yolo County and their scented markers for indicating the selection on my ballot, I will always associate the democratic process with the smell of black licorice. I didn’t vote for the presidential primaries because I’m not affiliated with any party, so I don’t feel like I should tell the Democrats their business. (Dems are the only big party that lets me vote in their primaries). But voting for local stuff is important too!
Yeah, the first version was confusing! I thought it was a joke that I just didn’t get. 
Yes. I lost. Every person running for president that I have ever voted for has lost. Except Bill Clinton.
You voted for Obama and you watch Fox? 
An upscale neighborhood in the urban center of Saint Paul, MN. The big number just voted presidential pref and left, as for who stuck around for the caucus; Mostly white, several jewish, 50/50 male female, One black male, a few rainbow type couples of both flavors. A pretty overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood though, I think Kerry took 75%.
I tried to vote, almost didn’t but my stubborness won out so I voted.
(Long store here)
When I registered in 1992 I did not choose a party. I think for myself and didn’t want to give any party my membership. In New Jersey if you don’t choose a party you don’t vote in the primary. If you are in a party you must select someone from that party.
However if you are not in a party you can declare yourself behind one of them at the polling place.
I went to vote after work. I arrived around 6 and the polls close at 8.
I showed my ID to the white haired worker who looked me up in the book and saw I was listed a a Republican. I said no I was independent and declaring myself Democrat. The poll worker insisted I was a Republican. She got her supervisor who told me I might be able to use a provincial ballot and he went to call the election board.
He motioned for me to follow him so I did. One call to the board later nothing was resolved they said since I voted Republican in the last general election I’m considered a republican. I insisted there was a mistake but they would not have any of it.
The poll worker tried to tell me that for the general election I can vote any way I want but he did not understand that I wanted to put my vote behind a specific person who was a democrat.
I left the polling place discouraged and was going to give up but then my stubborn streak kicked in. I went to the election board and filled out the paperwork to appear before a judge to get a court order to allow me to vote democratic.
The board workers started researching my prior votes and discovered that indeed I never did declare myself in a party so I could vote for the person I wanted to, only they can’t help me. I still needed to see a judge.
So I waited and about 6:45 they called four of us in to see a judge. I was one of the four people called and that made some of the people there prior to me not happy.
I was called to the Defendants table thought I would have to plead my case. Instead the Deputy DA who was supposed to support the election board said they had no objection to me being allowed to vote and a court order was issued.
While I was waiting for my paperwork I saw other people go before the judge and each of them were denied because they did not file the paperwork in enough time prior to the election.
I then drove back to my polling place and presented the court order to the white haired person again. She didn’t know what to do with it and called over two other people. They asked me if I was supposed to keep it and I said I was told to present it to you. They looked it over, said I should keep it and they then set the machine to Democrat and I chose the candidate of my choice.
MannyL, that is the kind of fortitude that would make our country greater. I think operatives on both sides have realized that a little bit of intimidation can go a long way.
Hillary just finished speaking (you go girl!) and CNN just declared North Dakota for Mitt Romney. The excitement is almost too much!
Actually, I was helping the Noo Yawkas–at least those in a small segment of the north central Bronx–to vote with the Shoup Shoup big gray hulkin’ Machines of Freedom (as seen in The New York Times!) For NY pollworkers, it’s a hella long day as we have to report at 5:30 in the morning and don’t get to leave until 9:30 at night–polls are open from 6 to 9.
We had our spurts–the commuters rushing to the subway around 7:00 am, the parents dropping off their kids (we were in a school gym) at 8:00, the little old folks coming by after daily Mass around 9:30, the lunchtime retail workers, the parents picking up their kids in the early afternoon, the commuters coming off the subway from 6-8, and finally the “Oh shit!” folks who came home, watched the news, and remembered that today’s Super Tuesday right before we closed at 9:00.
Hey, Romney got Minnesota too.
Anway, I slipped over to the machine covering my street (we had eight Shoups standing around like Easter Island statues with their faces covered with black plastic curtains) and voted for Hillary in one of the early morning lulls. But on that machine, by the end of the day, only about 132 other voters had joined me. On my own machine, only 114 people voted all day, plus 7 affadavit (address or party registration problems). In the 2004 presidential we got over 500 people per machine and in the 2006 Congress about 250, so it was weird.
Hillary won decisively in our little section of the Bronx, with at least 2/3 of the vote on all machines, but Obama had a respectable showing. McCain trounced Romney by a good margin and Huckabee was a no-go; didn’t see a single vote for Ron Paul. 11 people who weren’t up on their news voted for Giuliani, but the others who’d dropped out got little or no votes.
Just a snapshot from another part of NYC. All we need is a Queens and Staten Islander checking in and we’re covered, but I think all the Staten Islanders are watching the Daily Show (I’ll be holding out for the repeat).
Hey, Clinton is beating Obama in California with a whopping 2% of precincts reporting…oy!
I’ve been up since 4:30 am. Time for bed. Maybe by the time I wake up we’ll have 5% of CA in.
Jesus H. Christ.
In Arkansas they ask me which primary I wish to vote in.
Talk about Live Free or Die…
Mrs. Plant being from New Hampshire though born on Long Island.
Good for you, going through the ordeal. It’s a bitch that you had to.
I voted on my way to work this morning, at about 7:20. And I had to wait in line!
Ultra-hi-tech paper ballots here in California…I love 'em! But I swear it took longer for me to fill in all the little ovals than it did to drive to the polling place (about 2 blocks from my house)…
Oh, and I know nobody asked, but:
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, McCain
I voted at 3 this afternoon, my wife and I were the only ones there at the time.
I voted on the way to work this afternoon…got in and out in ten minutes. I think that I was the only person under the age of sixty in the room.
Here in Tennessee, you get your pick, Dem or Pub…in my district we used touch screen machines.
Since my first choice had already dropped from the race (although he was still on the ballot) HRC got another one here.
Dodd, Edwards, and Richardson were still on our Ballot in AL. and Edwards got 2% of the vote. Didn’t quite understand that.
MannyL, I want to thank you for your effort to vote. As someone who is disenfranchised in his state because he refuses to join a major political party I wish I could have jumped through the hoops you had available.
I thought about doing the independent thing this time around, but this time I decided to register as a Dem, for the primaries (of course).
Wow, I’m glad that registering to vote isn’t like registering to the SDMB where you have to pay the second time round…I think I’d have been the equivalent of a sock puppet.