Vote.

[brigdh]

The polls are crazy. I had to wait an hour and a half to vote. To give you some perspective, I voted at the same polling place that I have for the last two years, and I have never so much as seen a single other person there voting. Today, there were two lines, and both of them wound all the way through the church and nearly out the door into the rain.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if today has the highest voter turnout ever.

Campus is packed with all sorts of people, waving signs and handing out stickers and marching around shouting speeches through bullhorns. Along High Street, there are people every ten feet trying to get cars to honk for their candidates. I've seen a million 'W stands for Women!' signs (and wtf is that?), and 'George Bush: You're Fired!' stickers are everywhere.

You can't walk around at night on weekends without coming across hundreds of drunk people. And usually they're stupid, and loud, and amusing. But this weekend, I saw groups on the verge of violence, screaming at each other, having to be held back so they didn't attack each other. They were fighting about politics.

It's all kind of scary. Exciting too, but... interesting times, for sure.

ETA: Important swing state- Ohio, just a few miles from downtown of the biggest city in the state, second biggest college campus in the entire country. So my experience may not be everyone's. But no challengers, although there were several 'know your rights!' type people wandering around handing out flyers about what to do if you were challenged.

Comments

[-atgunpoint.livejournal.com]

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's pretty cool. And on the plus side, just walking back to my dorm got me, like, five Kerry stickers to wear.

[sarashina-nikki.livejournal.com]

We do live in interesting times. This is definately a historic election, even more than 2000, and I'm glad to be a part of it. (although kind of bummed that I'm missing out on the whole actual polling experience bc of needing to use an absentee ballot)

And I'm so excited to hear about this amazing voter turnouts all over my flist. Yay civic duty!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I know, it's so exciting! I'm obsessively watching CNN and checking poll websites. It's just... argh, I want Kerry to win so badly. It was a big dramatic moment to push that button for him.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Since there are capacity issues over on dKos, and getting through is pretty much hit or miss right now, I thought it might be worth pasting in the last leaked exit poll numbers. Although everybody warns that at this stage, they're not worth much of anything:
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Exit polls
by kos
Tue Nov 2nd, 2004 at 18:03:32 GMT

Jerome over at MyDD gets the big scoop on the 2 p.m. VNS NEP numbers:

AZ CO LA PA OH FL MI NM MN WI IA NH
Kerry 45 48 42 60 52 51 51 50 58 52 49 57
Bush 55 51 57 40 48 48 47 48 40 43 49 41


In 2000, the early numbers favored Bush. In 2002, exit polling was terribly innacurate. Exit polling also doesn't account for absentee and early ballots. And it's still early in the day. PA and MN will be much closer than these number indicate.

So please, please take with a giant grain of sand.

GOTV!

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For all the unreliability, it still does my heart good to see that 52/48 Kerry number for Ohio.

(I'm in Massachusetts, so I don't need to sweat my own state. At my precinct this morning, the folks holding signs for our Republican state senator -- a guy well loved here for his excellent constitutant services -- had joined the Kerry-Edwards group, maintaining a pointed distance from the lone Bush sign-holder. It was like, we're not sitting with you, you have evilness cooties.)

And now, back to obsessively trolling for more leaked polling results.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh- yay! That is great news. Gah- only 10 more minutes till the offical results come in. I'm on the edge of my seat.

And hee! I wish it was that way here. Instead, many people are enthusatically devoted to Bush. (And again I say, wtf? But no, I am polite and respect other people's choices.)

*joins you in the trolling*