Did my civic duty this morning
November 2, 2004I voted this morning, my local polling station was the Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church. Went shortly after 6 a.m. and the place was hopping. Really crowded, you had to wait in a line to get your ballot, then another line to get an empty voting booth, and then a third line to submit your ballot into the scantron machine.
Last year I voted in my last California election (voted for Schwarzenegger to unseat that idiot Gray Davis) before moving here, so this year is my first vote as a Kentuckian. Not that it really matters–it’s pretty heavily Republican here so my vote isn’t going to change much. There is some hope that Mongiardo will defeat the Republican incumbent, Bunning, but even that’s a slim hope.
The real question is can Kerry turn out enough young and disaffected voters to win this thing? All the polls show it close, but still they also always have Bush ahead by a couple points. That’s enough to give him the win, unless the Democrats can indeed turn out the young voters. All the polls seem to show a strong Kerry majority among younger voters so that is I think going to be the key to winning.
Well, the polls will be closing here in a couple hours, and shortly thereafter through the rest of the East coast. Alaska stays open the longest–they will not close until 1 a.m. their time. Should start seeing early results trickling in soon, but whether we’ll have a president tonight or even tomorrow is an open question.