And the turnout is dynomite.
This will be a short diary as I must tend to some of my kids!!! I was poll watching this AM in the north west area of Philly. I am not from Philly. However, I am here to tell you that the African American turnout is phenomenal. I, as an AA could not predict this kind of turnout. Men, women with children, even a couple of gang members were lining up all over the AA precints. By 12 noon almost 50% of the registered voters in my precinct had voted. I walked through three others in the area and can report similar turnout in all of these areas.
There was a machine broken at opening time, it was operating about 1 hour later, however, all of the people just waited patiently and talked amongst themselves about making history.
I met a 57 year old man voting for the first time. A 20 year old hs dropout casting his first ballot and telling me that he enjoys Keith Olbermann. Obama, he says, is changing his life.
No problems, no violence, just happy neighbors thrilled at enfranchisement even while waiting in a long line.
Philadelphia will be overwhelmingly Obama and I think this will cancel out all of Western PA (well almost).