I am NOT worried that people are not voting early...SOME people like TRADITION

[greenbriar]

and voting on the actual election day

[WeDidIt]

1. I enjoy going to the polls as they open up on election morning

It's how I've voted in every election for the past 27 years.

[greenbriar]

2. I normally like voting on election day but hubby wanted to vote yesterday

he is a network analyst and said he wanted to do it because if something happened and he had to work late, or if he got called in, he wouldn't be able to vote.

SO we voted

[high density]

3. I like feeling of voting on election day

My first vote back in 2000 was absentee and it just wasn't the same as the "real thing" on Tuesday.

[VenusRising]

4. We were going to wait until election day

But our roommate was going to be out of town and unable to vote, so we all went together and voted early.

Now I have freed up the day to work for the Obama campaign.

:hi:

[BlooInBloo]

5. Kids have no tradition. Not an issue for them.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Wow.

Tradition is passed down from older to younger. Many first time voters in particular savor the full tradition of the day. I'd been to the polling place with each parent every election from birth until I myself could step into a booth and vote at last. Tradition.

[BlooInBloo]

22. Bullshit. A first or second time voter has no "voting traditions". That's just stupid.

[EFerrari]

I worry about the lines they'll have to stand in but

I'm a mom. That's my job.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. I am voting Tuesday, going straight from work to the polls, and I hope I have to

stand in line.

[Dawgs]

7. Huh? Who's not voting early?

We are seeing record numbers in almost every early voting state.

[greenbriar]

8. that was all the talk today

repukes claiming they would win because the early voters were not showing up for the dems

[LiberalFighter]

25. They must be sniffing Palin's butt

[Clio the Leo]

9. See the irony........

.... we're about to elect the first African American to the presidency. Now is perhaps NOT the time to celebrate tradition?

I understand completely. I dont like to open my presents on any day but Christmas, but I'll be heading to the polling booth Tuesday ASHAMED that I didn't go before and PRAYING that my name is on the roll.

[Muttocracy]

10. are voting locations different for early voting? And given some of the early lines

maybe some people are waiting figuring there will be more poll workers or voting machines on Tuesday :shrug:

[greenbriar]

16. yea, we can vote anywhere early vote

on Tuesday

only our poll place

[Raine1967]

11. I am glad you said this.

My husband and I struggled about this. We decided to vote early just in case.

I am here in Georgia, I am a former NY'r so this early voting is strange and new to me.

But, that being said, the numbers of early voters are amazing. What we need to remember (imo) is that on election day, there are going to be SO MANY MORE polling places opened. The lines are very long all across the country... but that is becuase all the normal polling places are not open.

Early voting is not the standard yet, election day still is. So, I understand the concern, but there is still a part of me that thinks this is just one more thing that makes us concerned, as opposed to something that we should be relieved about. How many people had this concern in 2004? (seriously, until this year, i never worried about it) We are libs, we worry.

What I want is for everyone to GOTV on Tuesday!
but that is me, and I don't care if people vote early or on 11/4 --- all I care about is VOTING!








:toast:

[rainbow4321]

12. A few people who I work with totally blew off our TEN days of early voting

One's rational was "so many people voted early, the lines shouldn't be that long on Tuesday". :eyes: TEN days worth of time to early vote, including a Sat/Sun and these people are gonna chance the lines not being long.

[Milgren]

13. Tradition

I almost waited, I figured early voting wouldn't feel quite as significant or exciting as going to the "Main Event". I was totally wrong! There were plenty of people waiting with me to vote and I got the same great feeling turning in my ballot, plus voting early has given me two weeks to inform others how to do it!

[crossroads]

14. I will also be voting Tuesday... thumbs up for tradition! nt

[susanna]

15. I'm in Michigan, with no early voting, so I have to vote on Election Day.

Still, there is something energetic about that day that I think I would miss if I voted beforehand. So maybe I am a kinda-sorta-traditionalist, which would shock the heck out of most people who know me. :-)

[Kali]

17. traditional tuesday here, mostly

there will be 5 of us going on Tuesday to vote for Obama. One's very first time at all and another one's first presidential vote (he stood in line back in February with us)
Mostly tradition, but also because there was only one location in the whole county for early voting and that is more than an hour away.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

19. You're right. Every year, after work, me, hubby, & sons vote & then order pizza.

[frogmarch]

20. A friend of mine is waiting till

Tuesday to vote, because she wants to savor every moment of that historic day.

Plus, unlike me, she loves crowds.

Edited to add that she's voting for Obama/Biden, of course!

[elocs]

21. If you know your voting experience is going to be easy without long lines and a long wait,

then it is easy to tout the tradition of voting on election day. If you know ahead of time that there will be very long lines with waits of hours, then it is basically stupid to wait for election day to vote.

[Zynx]

23. There have been at least 22 million early votes.

That's significant.

[greenbriar]

26. I agree...I am just countering the media saying the early voting favors McNasty

I am not worried


Personally if it had just been me, I would have waited and voted ON election day

[LiberalFighter]

24. It takes time to turn them on the idea.

Give them a couple of elections to get use to the idea of voting early. And there are always going to be some that just want to vote on election day.

[LiberalFighter]

27. We got a call today at our county Democratic Hdqtrs from someone

that was in a different county over 100 miles away cause the wife was in the hospital for emergency procedure and not sure if they would get back in time election day. And it is too late to do absentee mail vote. And they can't have their vote done by a traveling board cause the board only goes to locations within the county.

If they had voted early it would had been one less worry for them. In this case it is at least 2 votes not cast if they don't get back.