I couldn't wait to get in the booth and cast my vote for Obama/Biden, Kay Hagan and others down ticket. Today I finally had that chance as I drove an hour from Raleigh to Southern Pines (where my permanent address is) to do this. With my vote comes some very interesting statistics. From the local Obama office (a great grassroots story in its own right) it is known that Moore County has approximately 60,000 registered voters. In early voting thus far over 10,000 have cast a ballot countywide and that number may be closer to 12,000! This means already more then 1/6 of all county voters have shown up! At my particular polling location I was number 4123. This is normally a conservative stronghold, but it is clear this kind of turnout is favoring Obama. If it were an average presidential election dems. or "blue" voters would probably be outnumbered 2 to 1. It was reported to me that it is probably nearly even based on observation at the very least. The ground game here is very strong from the Obama side even in the reddest of red territories.
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