I voted...

[sleigh]

Ohio allows early voting, so to avoid the rush on Election Day, I went down to the BoE this morning and voted.

There was still a rush. The room was full of voting booths, and there were six lines for registration, yet I had to stand in line to fill out the paperwork and get my ballot. The BoE employee there -- a very helpful and enthusiastic young woman -- told me that it had been like this since early voting opened, and that they'd had 800 or so people vote yesterday, and it looked like today would be the same.

It would seem that early voting is rather popular.

My random exit poll (with a sampling error of A Lot) of the six people in the elevator with me as I left would indicate that the vast majority of the early voters are for Obama. All six of the other people in the elevator said that they'd voted for Obama (as I did also). One of them, as we were walking down the sidewalk to our cars, said emphatically that "I really, really want the country I love back. Bush and his people stole it from us over the last eight years..."

I walked out into cool sunshine. It felt like a good day.

Comments

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Indiana going blue would be... really surprising.

Blue Indiana

[jdonat.livejournal.com]

A number of polls are showing Obama +10 over McCain. The aggregate shows Indiana within the MoE on all the other ones. I think that economics are trumping everything else, especially around the Turnpike corridor from Elkhart back to the Illinois border. This part of Indiana is the heavy industry part, and it's hurting real bad.

Look, PA and OH going blue would have been a BIG event not too many weeks ago, and now it looks like PA is +12 and OH is +10 for Obama.

Re: Blue Indiana

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I expected Obama to take PA, since Kerry did also. Ohio's another matter -- the north of the state is blue, but the south (where I am) is heavily red. It's still a toss-up here, but Ohio has voted blue before in the Clinton years. The polls are looking marginally good.