Ohio here. I am drowning in a blue wave right now

[Botany]

I don't know if this is for the rest of the state but the precinct I'm working @ has an incredible turnout and the line keeps growing.

I almost want to cry.

In the past these mid day times are kind of dead but not
today.

This ain't no party this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around. Cat 6 tsunami.

[underpants]

1. Yaaaay!

🇺🇸

[Marthe48]

2. Hope it holds!

Hope we can go surfing!

[BComplex]

12. Surfing the huge blue wave!!

I'm right there with you!

[Dem2]

3. Blue district?

How do you know they're Democrats?

[LisaL]

4. A lot of unemployed people have time to vote during the day.

I guess that's one plus of high unemployment.

[Dream Girl]

9. That is an excellent point.

[democrattotheend]

25. I'm employed, but fortunately was able to vote mid-day

I'm 7 months pregnant and didn't want to risk having to wait in a long line with no access to a bathroom, so I went around 3. Fortunately New York allows 2 hours off for voting, although I'm not a shift worker and I'm sure my boss would have given me the time either way.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. WE need to make voting fast, easy, and convenient.

[SergeStorms]

49. My Dad used to get a half-day (paid) off from work...

in order to vote. That was back in the days when employers had a conscience. It should be a national holiday though, or at the very least they should hold it on Saturday.

[smb]

53. They Should Have Adequate Early And Mail-In Voting Options nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

54. Was he in a union?

If so, it would have been a union thing.

And no, Election Day does not need to be a national holiday. Too many people are shift workers to begin with, and always work weekends and holidays. Lots of early voting and easy mail-in voting are far better solutions.

[SergeStorms]

57. Non-Union.

But a company that wanted badly to keep the Unions out. Consequently they treated their employees wonderfully, with great pay and benefits. They were a member of the Dow Industrial average until the early 90s. Then everything went downhill quickly because of their own resistance to change. They're now a mere skeleton of the company they once were.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

61. Thank you.

When I was an airline employee in the 1970s, my employee group was not unionized, but because of other strong unions in the airlines, we got very good benefits. For instance, if we worked over 8 hours in one day we got time and a half. We did not need to work more than 40 hours in the week for the OT to kick in.

[triron]

5. Where are you?

[RussellCattle]

6. The "Talking Heads" quote only adds to my happiness over your news.

[Zambero]

14. A "Once In A Lifetime" election!

"Road to Nowhere" soon to be barricaded!

[ProfessorGAC]

16. And We Can Stop Republicans From...

...Burning Down The House!

[RussellCattle]

17. I won't tell you to "Stop Making Sense".

[Withywindle]

24. "And She Was" very happy that the "Psycho Killer" is going down

Gonna "Stay Up Late"

[RussellCattle]

35. O.K. - one more. The lyrics to "Life During Wartime" could have been "Life During....

....Trump's Second Term".

Lyrics
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons,
Packed up and ready to go
Heard of some grave sites, out by the highway,
A place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance,
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in a ghetto,
I've lived all over this town
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
This ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
I ain't got time for that now
Transmit the message, to the receiver,
Hope for an answer some day
I got three passports, a couple of visas,
You don't even know my real name
High on a hillside, the trucks are loading,
Everything's ready to roll
I sleep in the daytime, I work in the nighttime,
I might not ever get home
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
This ain't no fooling around
This ain't no Mudd Club, or C. B. G. B.,
I ain't got time for that now
Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit?
Heard about Pittsburgh, P. A.?
You oughta know not to stand by the window
Somebody see you up there
I got some groceries, some peanut butter,
To last a couple of days
But I ain't got no speakers, ain't got no headphones,
Ain't got no records to play
Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time
Can't write a letter, can't send no postcard,
I ain't got time for that now
Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock,
We blended in with the crowd
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines,
I know that that ain't allowed
We dress like students, we dress like housewives,
Or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle, so many times now,
I don't know what I look like!
You make me shiver, I feel so tender,
We make a pretty good team
Don't get exhausted, I'll do some driving,
You ought to get you some sleep
Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks?
They won't help me survive
My chest is aching, burns like a furnace,
The burning keeps me alive

[themaguffin]

56. Me too (btw, watched David Byrne's show on HBO - he still brings it)

[StClone]

7. You'll be fine...we all will!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

42. Beautiful blue and green in that wave. I can't surf, but I can wallow in it!

[Leghorn21]

8. Thanks so much for this report from the field, B!! - and thank you for your work for

Democracy and America!!

[Chili]

10. OH-IO! O-HI-O!

[coti]

11. So awesome!!!!!!!

Thank you for letting us know!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Franklin County?

Some of them could be people who earlier received wrong ballots in the mail.

It's a Democratic stronghold, so I take your post as a positive!

[al bupp]

15. Definitely feels like Life During Wartime /nt

[RussellCattle]

19. Another Talking Heads reference. I am truly fufilled.

[AlexSFCA]

18. will OH choose Biden? Obama won it so I believe Biden will also win OH

regardless of polling.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. The polling has been close, but the pollsters might...

... now be over-sampling less educated voters. Several of them made those kinds of adjustments after 2016, and Nate Silver at 538 recently wondered if they went too far.

And there might be far more youth voters than they anticipated too!

[AlexSFCA]

21. my thinking is that any state that Obama won, Biden should be able to win

because demographics is only more favorable for us since then.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. I think the demographics are slightly more troubling...

... in Ohio as their share of college grads has dropped, but it hasn't changed THAT much since 2012.

I still think Biden/Harris will win here. We should know better in a few more hours!

[paleotn]

28. My thoughts as well....

Sampling is an art as much as a science, where math and prophecy coincide. They're trying to guess what a gazzilion different slices of the populace will do compared to all the other slices. And like war, they're usually fighting the last one, when this one may turn out to be totally different.

[StevieM]

37. The polls weren't wrong in 2016. The polls changed at the end.

James Comey turned that election upside down.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

41. I agree about Comey!

The aggregated polls were pretty close in 2016, regardless.

According to a podcast at 538 a few weeks ago, several pollsters started sampling a bigger percentage of non-college voters nonetheless.

[ffr]

22. I hope it's true, Botany.

[SheltieLover]

26. Awesome!!!

Ty!

[NoRoadUntravelled]

27. WoooHoooo!!!

[PatSeg]

29. Thanks for posting!

That is wonderful to hear.

[paleotn]

30. Great news from a state many Dems have written off....

as just a bigger version of Indiana. But then again, Obama won that one too in 2008.

[peggysue2]

31. Whoosh!

Hope what you're seeing is indicative of the whole.

That would be awesome.

[NoMoreRepugs]

32. "This ain't no party this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around. Cat 6 tsunami." Hilarious!!!

[TheRickles]

33. What makes you say that your wave is blue? I hope you're right, but.....

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. I think he's in Franklin County OH.

It tends to be strongly Democratic.

Time will tell!

Edit: Or she? I'm embarrassed to not know.

[Harker]

36. Hang ten, Botany! n/t

[Silver Gaia]

39. This post just made me laugh/cry for sheer joy!

[philf99]

40. Hate to be a negative Nancy

Been looking at the Cuyahoga County BOE.

At my last look the heavily African American areas are not reporting high turnout

https://boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/en-US/livevoter.aspx

617K was the vote total in 2016

[LisaL]

47. Botany is in Franklin, not Cuyahoga.

NT

[philf99]

48. Right

But to win Ohio we need a huge margin in Cuyahoga County

[flying_wahini]

43. Oooh that would be so Sweeeeet 🕶

[hurple]

44. Good Talking Heads Quote!

Life During Wartime is appropriate

[mpreorder]

45. Ohio also

Big line early voting last week. But I'm in rural Ohio and there are Trump signs everywhere. Every time I see one I think "Another idiot brain-washed by Fox news. SAD!!

[KentuckyWoman]

46. Not to be a killjoy but deep red Ohio here.

and the lines are pretty long all day as well.

However, I suspect more than a few are people who lean Republican but not Trump. We'll see
I do have hope.

[Joinfortmill]

50. Amen

[BobTheSubgenius]

51. So damned good to hear!

Thank you for this. It's not conclusive on its own, obviously, but if Ohio goes solidly blue, I don't see anything but pain for the GOP in the so-called Rust Belt. (I so hate that name. I imagine residents are, as well. It's as dispiriting as "The Dust Bowl)

[soldierant]

52. "drowning in a blue wave"

But what a way to go!

[COL Mustard]

55. +1,000,000,000,000,000

Can I go higher or does that dilute it?????






And thank you to everyone who has voted today (or during early voting)!!!!!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

58. Swimming. Drowning would be if it were

a red wave!

[Polybius]

59. It was stolen

This proves it.

[Botany]

60. The #s here just don't make any sense

Ohio had 3.4 million votes in the bank by election day but Trump and other GOPers
won by double digits? For those #s to have happened in OH and around America
they had to have had 70 or 80 or 90% of all of the vote on election day.