Thanks to early voters (plus we probably picked a good time of day) voting was a breeze this morning. I took longer at the booth than I did standing in line.

55% of registered voters voted early at our precinct.

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at Oak Grove Elem. I had 7 people in front of me. One of the poll workers said that out of 1400 people registered in my precinct 800+ had voted early. My wife just called and said she had 3 people in front of her. They have had about 200+ come through already this morning. Happy voting.

I had ZERO wait at Peachtree City, City Hall. WooHoo!!

I knew it would be a breeze when I saw all the folks lined up last week.

Did you remember to take off your "Bob Barr 2008" campaign button before you went into the polls?

in a couple of the races. And I was amazed at the number of "unopposed" races.

Oh yeah, I love ice skating.

There was a fantastic article in the WSJ last week about the politics of ice rinks, specifically the new one in Wasilla, Alaska.

Evidently, Mayor Palin was right, just like Dar Thompson....those things do draw major regional events, particularly if they are "multi-purposed".

Buried in the article,though, was an admission that, even in hockey-mad Alaska, the ice rink ran a six-figure operating deficit per year.

I love Ice Fishing..

Philadelphia County Board of Elections Supervisor Bill Rubin said the Election Board requires a court order issued by the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia for those workers who are not elected to the post.

These were not Election Board members and the law was put in place under the Republicans.

Three more things to keep an eye on in the Keystone state:

1) State operatives are reporting that calls are being made to Republican voters in Lancaster County telling them their polling stations have been changed.

2) NBC News is reporting major "voting obstacles" at at least eight different polling stations in PA. Broken voting machines are listed as the main problem.

3) Two Black Panthers have allegedly blocked persons from entering a polling place in Philadelphia. One of them is said to have brandishes a nightstick. An eyewitness told Fox News one of the Black Panthers said "We're tired of white supremacy."

Yeah, yeah JeffC. I know, someone is just making all of this stuff up.

GOP Files Complaint Against NAACP

Republicans say six black men wearing NAACP t-shirts intimidated voters at a Villa Rica North precinct in Carrol County, Georgia this morning.

Carrol County Republican Party Chairman Terry Agne filed a formal complaint against the NAACP with Georgia's Secretary of State Karen Hendel this afternoon.

According to the GOP's complaint obtained by Townhall, "Six black males all over six feet tall wearing yellow jackets with the letters 'NAACP' displayed on their jackets and who wearing picture name badges entered the precinct. Two males stood guard at the front doors and the other four men proceeded to walk in and browse around the judges tables and thus leaning over the judges while voters filled out their voter forms, thus in violation of voters rights laws."

The complaint says the men were not poll watchers and that the GOP believes the men intended to take similar actions at other voting precincts.

"We are demanding that the NAACP supply their names immediately without delay so that charges will be forthcoming against these individuals," the complaint concluded.

Typical behavior from these people.

Looks like those people would intimidate Obama's grandmother. Somebody should call the police and CNN.

Police Confront Night Stick-Wielding ‘Security’ Patrol at Philadelphia Poll

These minions of the Democrat party were intimidating voters and the police had to be called out.

Philadelphia can now be classified as a third-world city.

Where was you father when all of these shenanigans were going on.

Oh yeah, that's right - he likes to protect thugocracies. I'm sure barry will find a place for him in the administration. Maybe he can head up the Farrakhan goon squad.

I cannot wait until you and the rest of the people with your complex understanding of society take complete control of the shattered remains of the Republican Party.

It's going to be a delight to behold.

A brave man, self-identified as a Pennsylvania student, confronts the Black Panthers who were guarding the doors of a Philly polling station.

Black Panthers guarding doors of Philly polling station

I wonder if barry will replace the Secret Service with those goons that are always standing around Farrakhan.

They have to bully and threaten people.

...if these two so-called Black Panthers were actually ACORN employees doing a little overtime? It would say volumns for "community organizers", but all of us know that this is mere speculation for it's the government who provides for their every need.

Slick Willie increased the number of "his" women in Washington his first year without a doubt.....

I just got early exit polls, it's a massacre.

Dole, Sununu, Coleman, Stevens gone.

Martin too close to call.

Obama landslide.

That's Great It Starts With a Landslide

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Best information from EXTREMELY good sources. They're gonna call a lot of races at 7 and 7:30 they're so lopsided.

Obama - biggest landslide since '64.

Looks like yours are terrible since they called all of 2 states and one senate race by 7:30.

Seems like they were pretty good after all. The networks don't call until the polls in that state are closed.

My Daughter's Kindergarten class voted today and John McCain won by a 4 to 1 margin over Obama.

foolishness that has been posted here stop? Regardless of who wins I am afraid that for the next six months we will have the same people spouting off why their candidate won or didn't win. JeffC will be giving us all lessons in history and/or government-no matter if we want them or not. Mudcat will be calling people ugly names. The many-named bloggers will be espousing their brand of Christianity--and how it applies to politics. Makes me long for Bonkers and his foolishness. Looking forward to the school board fiasco ending, the ice rink being voted down and getting back to Bonkers complaining because someone is discussing the merits of different fishing or eating places. Ah, those were the days!

I too long for those days. What we need is another blog like this.
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has just passed away. I find this sad for she loved him like a son. I do hope Barry does mourn her death.

It's the typical white woman that bothers me. Why did he have to put a color to it. This lady raised him like he was her own. Couldn't Barry show some respect? The poor lady had to hear that.

My heart is sad for the family.

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Your side took his perfectly reasonable comment and perverted it.

I agree with Sniffles, your comment, "I do hope Barry does mourn her death" is disgusting.

For once, my political antagonists, I can agree with the two of you. I believe that it goes without saying that Barack will indeed mourn his grandmother. Like cyclist, I feel that he must have a 'big hurt in his heart'. Respect and empathy for the Obama family is what is called for here...anything else is abominable.

We all acknowledge and often voice what we feel are the shortcomings of our loved ones, but love them nonetheless. My parents and I have had some rather fierce political debates over the years (to the point of being asked to leave their home - my old home). However, there are not two people on this earth that I love and respect more than Mom and Dad.

Jeff Carter and the Democrats' general refusal to hold each other accountable is appalling.

Senator Obama's comments about the grandmother that raised him were offensive and only the strident party faithful can see such a comment as anything other than the insult that it was. It was clearly a pejorative comment, designed to earn him political credit at the expense of the woman who willingly raised him because his shiftless parents were irresponsible. Obama's own experience might well have shaped his own embrace of abortion as evidenced by his comment that he would not want to have one of his daughter's lives "ruined" by a "mistake".

Here is the radio interview Obama comment: "she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there is a reaction." This was offensive. He called his grandmother a bigot. He called her a racist. He further said "she feared black men".

Jeff, this is exactly what you Democrats (most particularly NOW) did during the Clinton years when Clinton was sexually assaulting his way across America, into the Oval Office and beyond. And yet you stood silent even during the perjury impeachment trial in the Senate. The very lonely exception was Senator Joe Lieberman who came to the well of the Senate to denounce Clinton. Rather than being praised as a voice of wisdom, he was kicked out of the Connecticut Democrat Party, still easily winning re-election as an independent.

I will not say the Republicans are much better. Sniffles' chronicles of Lynn Westmoreland are accurate and insightful. See the Mark Foley affair. However, when Richard Nixon fell from power it was a Repbulican Congressional contingent that went up Penn Ave to the White House and told him that if he did not resign he would be removed from office by impeachment. The Democrats did the opposite with Clinton.

Obama's comments about his grandmother were shameful, opportunistic and, from a Biblical perspective, potentially defensible only by a theologian of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Black Liberation Theology school of thought. "Thou shalt Honor thy Mother and thy Father"---- does that ring a bell?

If you don't think the typical old white grandmother is afraid to meet a bunch of black people on the street in Chicago then you are in denial. He was absolutely right.

I love it how liberals will just run away from the issue when they are losing.

No one is disputing the fact that Obammy's grammy was a racist. Heck, Obammy and Michelle are both racists.

The point you miss, Jeff, is that Obama used the word "typical" as in typical white behavior. He not only called his grammy a bigot but he stated that that was typical for whites (but apparently ok for blacks to stereotype). I'm waiting for Jeff to say that Obammy never even said it in the first place.

You should be condemning Obammy for the racist he is. But as long as he keeps propping up your liberal causes and funding them, principles are irrelevent.

That's not how I see it. As far as running away from an issue when we're losing, I believe that tonight we will find out which issues are important and how most people decided about them.

If lots and lots of people think that the manufactured controversies like Obama's birth certificate, his grandmother being a "typical" white woman, the authorship of his book, etc. are important then he will lose. If the majority recognize these "issues" as false, trivial or both then I suspect he'll win.

It will be interesting to see how many people agree with each of us.

osama showed us his true colors and the true content of his character with that one horrendous statment about his grandmother. What an ungrateful racist pig.

He has many other statments of his hate towards white people in his book Dreams of my Father.

"she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there is a reaction."

Wow. I have that same reaction too! And I know that I am NOT a bigot...at least I try not to be. But there are some situations where I believe most of us do feel afraid, especially women, when walking around alone. So... yes, if I was walking down some city street, alone, and was approached by some man, white or black, I would ALSO feel some fear...it's just a natural thing, especially for women.

I still don't get why this statement has stirred such resentment in Republican's because I believe deep down that even Repub women can relate to this 'fear.' Even beeps!

"I still don't get why this statement has stirred such resentment in the Republicans". Because they grasp at any word they can to try and stir up controversy where there is none..thinking the weak of mind would believe such nonsense...

Last week while in BJ'S in Newnan I was walking down the rows of merchandise and there was this guy who just gave me bad vibes, you know the hair on the back of the neck sort of thing...he seemed to be every place I went, he was young white guy, with a tattoo on his neck..I was glad I came with my spouse who was wandering around that huge store, like I was. Yep, us girls always have to have the vibes going no matter who, what, where..Just being typical...

Crocodile tears.

Come on. Are all typical white people scared of ALL blacks? His remarks may have made sense to him, but as a presidential candidate, they were stupid. Anyone who made up their mind to vote for McCain, just on the basis of these remarks, is equally stupid. The Obama supporters don't need Palin's clothing allowance to sway them and McCain supporters don't need to worry about whether Obama's grandmother crossed the street if she saw a black man walking towards her.

Come on people, WAKE UP.

My son's friends don't call me a typical white woman. They have respect for me. You know why because when they are at my house I treat them as if they were my own.

Barry has to live with calling her that. That disgusts me. This lady was like a mom to him and he said that she's a typical white woman. Sorry, there is not an excuse for that. Color should never ever be an issue with anything, especially with someone that raised you. That is disgusting.

I respect her for loving him and raising him.

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You aren't a typical white woman! Your a fruit cake...

I find your knowledge of issues non-existent, your ability to evaluate arguments slightly below that, your use of your alleged Christianity to try to destroy people bizarre and your comments about Obama's grandmother disgusting, I will not respond to your future posts.

Have a nice life.

It's okay, I don't mind if you don't speak to me. I will still speak to you.

I voiced my opinion because of a color issue, JeffC there's more to this than the color issue. I have with calling her a typical white woman.

You don't know my background. I will tell you one thing, I am not ashamed of it. I am proud of it. My parents taught me love. Simply love. Not color, all the hang ups of being pretty or not, fat or skinny etc. They taught me none of that matters. They taught me that God sees our hearts.

Maybe, this is not common to you. I don't know your background.

I simply made a statement. I hope Obama mourns for his grandmother. Part of that comment is the way Obama has chosen to live his life. Including the BLT church. I find that church sad. If you call it a church.

Honestly, his grandmother loved Obama so much. Parenting is the hardest job on this earth. For her it probably was extra hard with the issues back when Obama was growing up. I know the love she had to have to endure this.

For example: My neighbor had a maid that helped cook and clean house because she was elderly. Her husband I loved, he was blind and I loved just talking to him. One Valentine's day I filled out my Valentine cards and I gave the maid a Valentine's card. She cried and gave me a huge hug. I was only 6, I didn't have a clue why she cried.
I went home and in 10 min. a knock on the door this sweet lady went and bought me a Valentine Card. With tears streaming down her cheeks she told me how much she loved me. This lady was also at my wedding. This lady does not have a color label, I just loved her. Do you get the picture.

I do feel for the family. Loosing a love one is hard.

The color issue concerned me. Honestly, Jeff if my grandmother was a different color that issue would never come up. BTW I am not all white. Are any of us?????? So, what's up with that statement.

I think Grandmother heard it, in my heart I think it could have hurt.
Grandmother loved Obama regardless.

Yeah, I will speak to you. Life is too short to live it that way.

Have a nice evening.

It's Independence Day!

Listen Independence Day

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. That is my dream also. I was just a baby when Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. I have so much respect and love for him. Martin you made us proud. Martin you knew the God that does not see color. Thank you Martin Luther King Jr.

I love his speeches they are encouragement. Let's be united as Martin suggested then all this hate would stop.

Do I hate Obama. Certainly not. I don't like the division that he causes and the company he keeps. I pray for Obama. If he wins this election I will still pray for him.

I do see a diffence in Martin Luther King Jr. than in Obama. Sure generations change, but the message of Martin still remain strong.

Would I vote for Martin Luther King Jr. for President, most certainly.

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My favorite quote from Martin: Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty, Free At Last.

Martin Luther King Jr. I will always have that dream.

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Your callousness cloaked in Christianity is astonishing.

What would you know of Christianity, Mr. Druggie? I know your background. You have nothing to say here.

What you have stated is a reasonable comment about Obama. No, Jeff, what he said was not "reasonable", it was disgusting. You don't bring your elderly grandmother into the speech like that to make your point at her expense. You don't use her to make a point when it will shed a possible bad light on her, especially when YOU are desperately trying to keep that same "bad light" off the FACT that you have been sitting in a church (and I use that word very liberally) and have listened to some of the most disgusting racist and anti-American comments ever uttered. FOR 20 YEARS!! What I cannot understand is how Obama did not see fit to bring his children (and this lady's grandchildren) to her bedside when she was so close to death. Maybe I am wrong, and maybe they did come but what I have seen, it does not appear to be so. I have lost my own mother recently and I would have done anything to have been there and to have my kids there,too.

Nothing like the using the death of a relative to advance your political agenda.

"I do hope Barry does mourn her death".

You disgust me.

didn't spend so much time on the subject of a private citizen's death yesterday for no reason? They certainly had an agenda for doing so. John McCain gave up 5 years of his life, as well as some of his health, for the love of his country and the love of his comrades. He could have gone home since he was the son of an Admiral, but chose not to. Think about that today. Dwell on THAT today. I couldn't have done it. I disagree with McCain on a lot of issues, but he is more qualified to be President than any other person, save Washington, Madison, or Jefferson, that has ever held the office. Barry is a junior senator with some dubious affiliations, and a guy we know virtually nothing about. The press failed us big time on vetting this guy. That did not do their job, bottom line. His big accomplishment- he beat a guy from Maryland, Alan Keyes, in an Illinois election. Senator Government, Senator "Present", Senator "That One". A millionaire who has an allegedly illegal aunt living in a Boston slum. Yet he wants us to be our brother's keeper. Disagree with him and he will throw you off his plane. Mention his ears in a column and he will chastise you. Not a great speaker, not a great thinker, not fast on his feet, not a great anything. A good deal of question about the authorship of his books, his birth country of origin, his citizenship status after adoption and schooling in Indonesia. Yet America clamours for this. I disagree with McCain for running such a highground campaign. But, I guess he was too honorable to get in the mud.

When you were complaining in September when McCain banned Maureen Dowd and Joe Klein from his plane.

You can't blame the press for not vetting Obama when all you read are nut jobs complaining about the authorship of his books, his birth country of origin, his citizenship status after adoption and schooling in Indonesia. It was all covered, you just didn't want to believe it.

Jokerman, before you get tooo wrapped up in your hero worship of John McCain, here's something to consider:

There were hundreds of Prisoners of War in Vietnam. United States policy was to handle promotions while they were in captivity as if they were in the United States, i.e. the prisoners were regularly promoted in absentia.

All but a handful of these prisoners were promoted.

John McCain was one of the very few who was NOT promoted.

He went into the Hanoi Hilton as a lieutenant commander, he came out of the Hanoi Hilton nearly six years later as a lieutenant commander.

Why?

Could it have been his 38 guest appearances on Radio Hanoi, a feat matched by few others?

Or could it have been the fact that McCain betrayed his fellow naval aviators by divulging classified information regarding bombing routes and altitudes? North Vietnam redeployed anti-aircraft batteries around Hanoi based on McCain's information. How many aviators then didn't come home?

Five....FIVE!!!...Army colonels recommended to the then-Secretary of Defense that LTCMDR John McCain be brought up on charges of collaborating with the enemy. Laird, seeking to avoid a military scandal that would further detract from the Vietnam war, quashed the investigation.

Did you ever wonder why very very few former POWs were campaigning for McCain this year? What did they know about the character of the man that we didn't?

Here is an interesting LINK detailing a retired Special Forces Colonel's views on John McCain.

You seem to be placing an inordinate amount of trust in one website. Or could it be that it's payback for the "swiftboating" of one John Kerry? Either way, with the characterizations you make, I humbly ask, exactly how many of these former POW's have you been priviledged to have met?

I believe you would find that most direct information from these patriots is quite close hold out of respect for one another. Your man in 2004 wouldn't even go there.

Well, I am not writing a doctoral dissertation so I don't feel the need to multi-source items. You can choose to believe the site or not, it makes no difference to me.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the site, though, you'll see that the Army colonel in question is at least as critical of John Kerry as he was of John McCain, so I feel that your "payback" assertation just doesn't hold water.

I've never met a POW and I fail to see how that has anything to do with this discussion. As far as "closely held" information goes, there are more than a few biographical books on the market detailing individual struggles of POWs in captivity.

Thank you for your originality, I have no need for your dissertation. I will point out that the colonel being interviewed continues to grieve for his missing and presumed dead son from that era. While I offer no proof, I would lean a bit toward a lack of objectivity, but you, on the other hand, blindly jump to anything sensational that would slant against the party not of your choice.

Having met three of these gentlemen, I would state that they hold no animosity for each other and certainly would not go out of their way to disparrage a fellow member of their club.

But I could be mistaken since today you seem to have all the answers.

There is no way for us to know what he survived. To second guess what this man may have said under duress is ludicrous. I have heard many a veteran stand up for him and not disparage what this patriot did while in prison. Let's compare it with Barack's service to his country.
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Torture...err, excuse me, "enhanced interrogation techniques"...can forgive a multitude of sins.

"Every man for himself", right? Right?

agenda yesterday? Please do tell! You Repubs aren't making any sense whatsoever.

I can hear your reaction this morning, if the 'liberal media' had yapped all day about his Granny's death, you'd be saying they were trying to garner sympathy for Obama.

The media did right to down play this, so what's your beef?

Gosh I love the smell of DESPERATION in the morning....it smells like victory.

Sympathy.

pointed-out that McCain spent more time in a P.O.W. camp than Obama has as a senator. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

"Your, yore, you're all idiots." (T.Floyd)

and to have his beloved grandmother pass away the night before the the election is indeed very sad. That's got to be a big hurt in his heart.
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No matter how you phrase it - the country is aware of who is on the attack. Some groups have besmirched the good name of a marvelous hero by calling his opponent everything under the sun that has an 'ist' ending.

I know you're hurting Darryl. If I put my political party above the needs of my country, as you do, I would be hurting too.

At this point, 97.3% of Americans have made up their respective minds as to who is the better candidate to resurrect America from the ashes of disaster that has been the Bush Administration. No plagiarism from Fred/Sara, nor histronics from you is likely to change anyone's mind at this point.

If God is merciful, voters will send Barack Obama to the White House tomorrow. If John McCain is elected, though, it will not be the end of America.

Are you retired or something, or do you just have alot of spare time on your hands?

I can assure you that when I retire I won't be doing just this. I have other things I want to do that are very enjoyable.

God is merciful, it has nothing to do with who wins the White House. It's who the people put in with their own free will in the White House. Prayer does play a part in who we vote for if we are a Christian.

BTW the world won't come to an end if Obama goes to the White House.

Because:

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You'll forgive me if I don't answer personal questions... you see, I haven't forgotten what you and Denise did to Muddle.

"If God is merciful, voters will send Barack Obama to the White House tomorrow."

I guess if Barry loses tomorrow we'll know who's to blame. God just wasn't merciful.....

My God is merciful. Hopefully, just not tomorrow (by your logic).

...our buddy Fred is a plagiarizer as well as a porn star?

Holy guacamole, Fred!

I'm glad to see that you've not been burned at the stake yet.LOL

I hope you and your family had a fun weekend.

Today's Qoute:

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor

Yes, we had a great Halloween and gave candy to all the youngsters at our door, even the children of known Republican neighbors!

Loved your quote... here is another for you:

"Religion: It has given people hope in a world torn apart by religion." - Jon Stewart