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Thread #115900   Message #2484397
Posted By: Azizi
04-Nov-08 - 09:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Lines at the Polls
Subject: RE: BS: Lines at the Polls
I voted at 7:30ish in Pittsburgh, PA.

For some reason, about five years ago, my voting location was changed from a public school that is about a block away from me to a cultural center that is about 7 blocks {up and down hills}. My neighbor across the street still votes at the school. She told me that she voted at 7AM and the lines were long {which is unusual}.

It's an unseasonably warm day in Pittsburgh, and that will probably add to what was already going to be an uncharacteristically large voter turnout. The cultural center where I vote has three different voting districts. I didn't have to wait in line, and there didn't seem to be a line in the second floor voting area that is entered from the outdoor stairs. However, the other voting area that is on the same floor next to mine had a line going out of the door. And the poll worker who I know said that many more people are voting then usually do. I should note that there were five people behind me in line, and other people were coming in as I left.

Fwiw, the demographics for the people who vote at each of these locations that I mentioned are mostly African Americans. I expect that Barack Obama will receive at least 97% of the vote from African Americans in Pittsburgh, PA and elsewhere. And I expect that Obama will win Pittsburgh and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And at the end of this very long election, Obama will be America's President-Elect!

Hallelujah!