The anecdotal voter (open thread)
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Post your quips about your voting experience here today. Turnout, conversations, etc.
7:51 a - Better half just returned from Woodbury's precinct 1 (Lake Jr. High). 210 people had voted in the first 40 minutes.
8:20 a - On way out of town. Only Dem sign-wavers -- Klobuchar and Marsha Swails (Rep candidate in 56B) represented. Where are the Repubs at Woodbury's busy intersection.
8:23 - Lone sign carrier for Sen. Brian LeClair greets me at on-ramp to I-94. No Dems
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8:23 - Signs for Klobuchar and Hatch stuck on overpass near cloverleaf.
11:31 - My vote was #756. That's, what, about a 110-115 an hour? I guess that's not bad. I voted right after the kid with the t-shirt that said, "liberalism is a mental defect." Checked the cars in the lot to look for bumper stickers, but only one candidate (Swails) was represented.
I like to talk to election judges when I vote. So I asked the elderly election judge (seriously, are there many who aren't?) "how long have you been doing this?" "four years," she said, asking me whether I thought she was ancient. She caught me. This was like asking a woman "when are you due" who is not pregnant. Busted.
12:08 Son #2, casting his first vote, says 828 votes so far. That's a slight uptick in vote rate. Expecting gushing interest in politics -- as with #1 son -- he said "it's OK" in that 18-year-old, I'm-too-cool-to-gush voice. He then tears into me for cutting my Dish Network tier and dropping Fox Sports North and FX. Kids.
