Update on my precinct's voting:
Huge turnout. At 6:35 a.m. we had 200+ people in line waiting to vote. Four years ago, we had about 20-30! The Republicans were there in big numbers this morning, but that is typical. They tend to vote early, but only once. 🙂
The Black and Hispanic vote is huge as well, but about 40% of my minority voters have already voted according to our numbers. This accounts for the early lead in Kerry's favor in Orlando and the rest of Florida.
Two of my Republican buddies started chanting "BULLET, BULLET, BULLET, BOB" when I rode up on my bike. That's my nickname, I'm embarrassed to admit. 🙂
We have NO Republican poll watcher at our poll. This is the first Presidential election we haven't had one. I have no clue why, except we have about 60% minorities in our community.
We DO have a Democratic Party LAWYER at our precinct. I immediately disliked him as he started pontificating like he was Caesar. Sheezh, no wonder people hate lawyers.... Anyway, no Republican lawyers. This is a small community of mostly rational people so I don't expect any challenges to be made.
My impression based upon this morning's brief setup (1.5 hours over there) is that this is going to be a huge undertaking and the RACE WILL BE CLOSE here. Closer than I thought.
I will try to update you and let you know if we have a major breakdown of any kind.
No sign of Osama at my polling place. I'm not laughing....
-Robert