I worked the polls for Mac and Wolfe this morning from 6-8am and the line was very long at Baldwin when the polls opened. However, the line was worked down to nothing within about 90 minutes and, by the time I left, you could walk in and vote immediately. The democrats have many poll workers – it’s unusual for republicans to be outnumbered on the poll worker front in Manassas – and the majority of them are not from here. Not good, bad or indifferent, just an observation.
Overall I think the turnout looks a lot like the turnout in 2004 when the initial line was long.
November 4, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Voting went very smooth for me, almost always does in the City. I was at Dean about 8:40, and it only took 10 minutes to vote. I have heard from a few other people that went after 8 in the City that is it was quick and painless. I am thinking a lot of people took off today because schools are closed and that will spread out the lines.
November 4, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Voted just before noon at Metz in the City and it took less than
fifteen minutes. Very well organized.
The poll workers did note that there was a heavy turnout earlier
in the day and they expected it to increase again in the late afternoon.
Also noted that Dems handing out literature outnumbered the GOPers –
very uncommon in Manassas. Plus saw teenagers at many major
intersections holding Obama signs and cheering.
November 4, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Voted at 10:00 this morning. No line.
November 4, 2008 at 3:14 pm
“-Lots of happy and sad people in Prince William Wednesday morning
as the returns came flowing in from around the country … Prince
William maintaining its proud record of having never gone Republican
though the margin between Governor Stevenson and General
Eisenhower was only 43 votes. (Prince William was one of only two
Virginia counties to go for Al Smith in 1928).
– Here in Manassas, Gene Worley will shortly carry Russell Polen up
Center Street in a wheelbarrow in a traditional election bet.
– Times Square in minature — Compliments of Cocke’s Pharmacy,
election results were flashed via projector and television receiver from
the second floor of the drugstore to the walls of the People National
Bank across Battle Street.
– Dr. George elegantly dressed with a bright red Eisenhower bandana
around his neck after his Stevenson one ‘washed away.’ ”
Manassas Journal Messenger
11-6-1952
November 4, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Voted at Metz around 7:30. No lines, very well organized.
November 4, 2008 at 4:02 pm
No wait. Who are the “election protection” people?
November 4, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Voted at Dean about 1. No lines.
But VA has gone Dem for the first time in 40+ years and mostly thanks to a terribly run campaign we will have a Democrat President for the next 4 years.
November 4, 2008 at 11:13 pm
But at least it appears the Dems won’t have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Let us hope those few Senators act as a “noble opposition” and don’t just “bitter losers”.
November 5, 2008 at 11:08 am
Thoughts-
– “The Manassas Town Council meeting in regular
session Monday evening at the Town Hall unanimously
adopted a a segregation ordinance which provides that
no permits shall be granted for the erection of
buildings of any character to be used or occupied
by any person other than one of the Caucasion race .. .”
(Manassas Journal June 1, 1917)
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used to quote a former slave:
“We ain’t what ought, and we ain’t what we want to be
and we ain’t what we’re going to be. But thank God, we
ain’t what we was.”
– God bless America.