I have to leave to be a poll watcher in a few so this will be a quick diary.
We have in person absentee voting in Greenville, South Carolina that started a few weeks ago. I was amazed when I went to early vote that I had to wait in line for 2hrs!!! It was great! but then when I started checking....It had been that way since the absentee voting started and was still going strong yesterday. Not just in Greenville, but all the surrounding cities.
I attended a emergency Poll watcher training last night at the democratic headquarters and the office was overflowed with canvassers and poll watchers and phone bankers...I stayed and waited 3 hours to sign up to be assigned to an open presinct. There was food coming in and out, people were so excited, and after the training ended and everyone was assigned, the office was still open and going strong with new folks coming in and still buying shirts, pins etc. What I DIDN'T SEE was ANY activity at the Republican Headquarters NEXT DOOR.
This is the best election I have participated in this supposedly "safe"
republican territory.
Another footnote: In 2004 there were alot of Kerry stickers and such, more than I expected, but the W '04 stickers were everywhere.
This year........MMMMMany more Obama Biden stickers....Either the car has nothing or overwellmingly Obama. Very few McCain Palin.
Now in the upstate of South Carolina....that IS change.
Gotta Go help turn us at least Purple!!!!