Virginia and New Jersey voters, please check in today.

[kstewart33]

We'd appreciate your reports!

[Madam45for2923]

1. Gosh yes!

[bettyellen]

2. Busy in my town, we have a big mayoral/local as well Dems taking the Gov office back in NJ

[underpants]

3. Voted on my morning run

There's a Libertarian candidate running for Gov named Clifford Hydra.

Hydra!!!

[FSogol]

5. Fail Hydra! If you cut of its head (& I'm not recommending you do that) 2% of the vote grows back.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. Well you're slim and you're weak; you've got the teeth of a hydra upon you.

BANG A GONG (GET IT ON) by T. REX

[underpants]

21. Or you could follow Jr.'s advice (from 1 hour ago)

Link to tweet

[Sunlei]

24. someone removed that tweet :P

[FSogol]

4. I voted at 7 am in No. VA.

Was voter #179 on the optical scanner, but since they had 2, that means over 300 people voted in the 1st hour.

[NastyRiffraff]

22. EXCELLENT news!

I heard on WTOP this morning that turnout is equal to a presidential race in Loudon County. Looks like NoVa is rocking! As VA's neighbor (MD) I'm rooting for you.

[lagomorph777]

30. My Loudoun location seemed reasonably busy at 9AM

...by our precinct's standards, which means no line at all except in a Pres. year.

[Laxman]

6. Voted In NJ....

haven't missed an election in 41 years-which tells you how old I am. Modest turnout at best-which is good, since I live in an overwhelmingly Republican area. Not much enthusiasm for Guadagno. These people would even vote for Donald Trump as long as he was running as a republican (oh wait-that really happened!)

[StevieM]

31. Compared to Chris Christie, Donald Trump is a rock star.

The closest comparison I can think of is California in 1992. George HW Bush was extremely unpopular, but Pete Wilson was even more disliked. (BTW, that is a really good example to show how absurd the claim was that Perot took more votes from Bush than than Clinton).

Even Sam Brownback is more popular than Christie. I am glad that the people of NJ finally see him for who he is. It is too bad that it is too late to get back all the transportation money that they lost when he turned down stimulus funds.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Voted in Virginia Beach, no wait

[HipChick]

8. Will be voting around Lunchtime..

[NNadir]

9. It was very active at my NJ polling place.

I usually don't need to wait in line but I needed to do so this morning. Voted straight Democratic and FOR library bonds and dedication of superfund allocations to Environmental cleanup.

[LiberalLoner]

10. Lined up to vote at six am in northern virginia

There were about forty of us waiting to vote, looked like good turnout from the vote before going to work crowd.

[crazycatlady]

20. How blue is your town?

[LiberalLoner]

23. Well, its kind of purple but trending towards blue more and more.

[Kber]

11. I'll be voting later when my daughter gets home from school

Last edited Tue Nov 7, 2017, 11:38 PM - Edit history (3)

She likes to come with me.

This year I threw my hat into the ring as a local candidate. I live in a red town and am running as a Dem (of course) so the odds are not in my favor, but I think we will give them a run for their money!

I'm part of a group of local women who are all first time democratic candidates, running in red towns. It's a real thing!

Will report back.

Update: dem turnout is running at almost twice that of republicans and unaffiliated. However, the reality is that my down just doesn’t have enough Dems for me to win without a decent percentage of unaffiliated and Republicans crossing party lines.

That said, even if I lose, I’ll have turned out votes for the governor and state legislative races that they weren’t expecting, which can only help!

Edit 2: waiting on results.

Edit 3: lost by about 120 votes or 4.5%. Considering the demographics, I’ll Sleep just fine tonight.

[kstewart33]

13. Great!

Good luck. Nice to know you're not alone with your candidacy. Every vote counts!

[crazycatlady]

19. Good luck!

[Sunlei]

26. It's a real thing! This post made me smile, you made my day, my week! Good Luck!

[NBachers]

28. I love hearing about your real thing! Go go go

[Iliyah]

32. Los Angeles pulling for you!

[StevieM]

33. It is great the you are running. Your daughter must be very proud!!

Good luck today!!

[Blue_Tires]

12. here you go

Link to tweet

[justiceischeap]

14. 3 votes cast in NoVa

Precinct was busier than expected at 10:15 (maybe 7 people inside to vote).

[Blue_Tires]

15. more:

Link to tweet

[OnDoutside]

25. Excellent memory in fairness to him !

[Kber]

17. In my little red town, Dems account for 22% of registered voters

According to our challengers on the ground, so far they are 31% of the actual voters.

I think that could be a good sign.

[crazycatlady]

18. Voted by mail in NJ

NOt sure what turnout is because I didn't actually go to the polls.

[OnDoutside]

27. Apparently rain in Northern Virginia is slowing the voting.....GOTV !!!

[Yonnie3]

29. Charlottesville and Albemarle County in Virginia

Media reports as of 1 pm 24,007 votes cast in Albemarle (34% turnout) and 9,006 in Charlottesville (31%).

I voted at my Central Virginia purple precinct. It was not very busy, turnout was 43.4% at 2:30.

McAuliffe won by 2.1 points in 2013 with a 57% turnout. Hillary won by 0.7% in 2016 with a 77% turnout.

[nocoincidences]

34. I went to vote at my Virginia Beach precinct at an off hour, 4 pm.

My voting place is not a very busy one, ever, but there were about 7 people total there.

Hard for me to judge.

[Yonnie3]

35. Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia

Media report as of 4 pm put turnout at around 42% for both. This doesn't include absentee ballots.

[Madam Mossfern]

36. voted mid morning

There was a steady stream and good turn-out. Where I live, it doesn't mean much as the town is equally divided between Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated.

I'm the town Chair so district leaders are going to be brining the numbers back to my house. I don't know whether I'll be able to post before there's an official call.

[Madam Mossfern]

37. Murphy by over 20 points in my town.

That means that a lot of people turned.
Woo hoo!!!

[Setsuna1972]

38. Sorry I was busy at work today

We had the Xbox One X launch, which was a huge hit..although one jackass brought 3 when the rule was one per customer...but if the said jackass tried to return them after not being able to sell them on eBay or something, I'll flat-out tell him to fuck off

bUt back to the election here in VA ! I went around 7:30, and had no issues at my usual voting location. They did change the route where everybody had to walk by the different candidate campaign workers...since I live in a very blue part of Hampton Roads (small, but we have a shipyard, hint), that didn't bother me. False News was trying to make this a close race, but based on the large number of people who also voted throughout the day, I wasn't surprised to see Northam win !