Long Lines, Everywhere
Already, Flickr folks are posting photos, and even this video, of long lines at the polls, all across Brooklyn. In Park Slope, the line stretched out even before the booths opened at 6AM. Bring coffee. Prepare to wait. Where did you vote? How long did it take? Any problems? Video by wnyc.
I voted at MS 51, 5th ave and 4th St. in Park Slope at 8am. The line outside the building took about half an hour, but then 1.5 hours more once I got inside the gym. Why oh why was there just *one* voting machine per ED? Was this everyone’s experience? The line for the 44th ED (mine) was clearly 3 or 4 times as long as the other districts voting in the same place, yet one machine for each.
Nonetheless it felt awesome when I finally got to pull the lever for Obama!!
Sounds like that was a smart idea, CobbleHilller. Although there’s definitely a cathartic feeling one gets from pulling the big lever and turning the knob (easy there, BRG) for their candidate of choice.
Why couldn’t you go to the poll CobbleHilller?
I applied for a Absentee ballot.
I sat at my kitchen table last week and filled it out.
Took 1 min
Thanks MM. I’ve been leaking tears all day- in a good way! Now my only other concern should Obama win is that we give him the chance to get things done- it will take some time to undo the work of the Bushies. Never has an administration cared so little for its country and so much for its special interests. Never has an administration been so wrong on so many fronts.
On another blog someone wrote (I believe he is Muslim), quoting Terry McMillan, that he is spending the day “waiting to exhale.” Me too.
Thanks Montrose!
But it’s not like I haven’t thought about it at work!!
😉
Not today though. I’ve got my mind elsewhere…for ONCE!
I realized that although I’ve said bawled before, I’ve never actually written or typed it.
Thanks again for your amazing words. I’ve shown them to a few people at work.
11217, that was a classic, monumental Freudian Slip. Good thing I haven’t uncorked the shiraz yet, I would have sprayed the keyboard.
Bawled, honey, bawled. Balled is something else, which you shouldn’t do at work. 🙂
Thanks ditto. I was wondering how to spell it. Bawled. Thanks. I get to vote AND learn a new word today!!!
Montrose;
I could get into an argument with you about Bush’s approach, but what’s done is done. I think your post highlights some of the perils that lay ahead for Obama and his supporters, and I’ll just cite one example that you imply in your post: the Kyoto protocol for global warming.
I would love to see this issue come up again, if Obama is elected. Here is an accord that would put a heavy burden on some of America’s sickest industries (auto and heavy manufacturing) during a time of ecomomic distress, while it exempts “developing” nations like China and India. You think this treaty would fly today? There would be riots in Ohio and Michigan if this treaty were put before the president again.
Once again I say: it is the President’s job to put American interests first, not world opinion. Soaring rhetoric is fine, but, as the old saying goes “to govern is to choose”. When those choices are made, let’s see if our “friends” overseas are still around.