Election Day Stories — Morning

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So here it is — the day we’ve been arguing over, sweating out and working our butts off for.

Did you vote today? Did you see any voting places on the way into work? Did you spend time greeting voters at a polling place or calling voters? Tell us what you see or hear this morning from your polling place, your GOTV effort or from your workplace in the comments.

We can put this up a couple of times today to capture info and stories from all throughout the day.

nemski writes:

Voted at Aldersgate Church on 202.  For the first time ever, I had to wait in line though for only 20 minutes.

Our favorite State Senate candidate was there greeting voters. Apparently he reads our blog. He seems confident, but not overly so.

Heard on the radio that Zogby has Obama at 54 and McCain at 43. The pollster said that they are seeing the Independents and undecideds shore up for Obama.

These long lines , along with the great weather across the country, are great news for the Democrats.

Today is going to be a good day.

Delaware Dem writes:

I got to the East Side Charter School at 6:25 am, and there was already a line waiting to vote of 20 people or more. I thought I was going to be the first one, and I had time to listen to Bill Press and enjoy my coffee, but no.

Voting went smoothly, no problems, although the line to vote kept getting longer. Everyone is going to have to be patient today.

Donviti:  I added a picture of Brandywine High School below the fold.  There were no lines anywhere I went this morning between 9 and 10 AM in the Brandywine Hundred Area.  I was told that it has been busier than normal, but nothing that the area can’t handle….

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Barack Obama seems very likely to be elected president tomorrow, barring some unforeseen calamity such as the Rapture.    My mother still doesn’t believe it, and she won’t until she sees it with her own eyes.  As an aside, the economic turmoil has finally affected my family, as it has many of yours and no doubt will affect countless others, in that my mom was laid off her job on Saturday.   Her fears of finding a job as a 56 year old woman are real.    Tomorrow may indeed bring some much needed hope to her and millions of others who have suffered during the last eight years.   But, despite all the polls showing Obama ahead, she has never quite believed that we will win.  “The Republicans will stop at nothing to steal this election, they have before.”    No amount of me telling her that their efforts to steal this election this year have largely failed will dissuade her from that notion.   It does not matter that the U.S. Supreme Court have shut down the GOP’s voter suppression tactics in Ohio.   It does not matter the Democrats control the Secretary of State offices in Ohio, Colorado, Nevada and other states.    She has always said we need to win this election by a landslide so that they can’t steal it.

And it looks like that is what is about to happen.   What is a landslide?    There are two kinds.