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brigdhThe 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-11-02 10:54 am (UTC)And I'm so excited to hear about this amazing voter turnouts all over my flist. Yay civic duty!
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Date: 2004-11-02 11:04 am (UTC)