2:00pm ET Discussion Thread:
Today is election day in America. Today is all about execution. Today is about voting.
Now is the moment to stop accepting the things we cannot change, and start changing the things we cannot accept!
Historically, we have been able to gauge the enthusiasm with ground reports by you as you vote in your local precinct. Today we do the same, only this time I can tell you with utmost certainty, the eyes of many around the world are watching closely. This is the BIG ONE. Wherever you are, in whatever state or region you are voting, YOUR VOICE MATTERS.
Do not be complacent; tune out the noise, run through the finish line. Don’t be distracted by obstacles or hurdles you may encounter. Resolve to the task at hand. The lines are long at many polling precincts. Stay in line! NO QUIT!
Today, we do what we know needs to be done, and we will end the day knowing we have done everything possible to deserve victory. Offer assistance to those who may need help getting to the polls. Do WHATEVER IT TAKES to respond to Benjamin Franklin’s prose and keep our republic intact.
Our leader has done all he can to bring us toward victory. Now, it’s up to us.
What are you seeing and hearing in your city, town or neighborhood?
How is the turnout in your area? What is the mood of the electorate, your friends, your neighbors?
Still in line in south Jersey. Been here for hours, people starting to drop off. The Chief said to stay in line so I’m staying.
South Jersey a red area. Definitely Voter Suppression hang in there. Let those bastards know they’ll be there all night until you get to vote !!
Please tell people to stay in line
Someone in front of me said there are only 2 machines. I’m sure that was intentional. They’ll have to drag me away kicking & screaming!
Hold the line!
Holding!
Thank you, I know it’s miserable to stand there like that.
This makes me really mad because it doesn’t need to be this way at all.
This is voter suppression.
Yes, it’s clear that this was done on purpose.
Thanks for holding the line. So when do the people of NJ get mad enough to kick your damn cheating democrats to the curb?
We really need election day to be a national holiday.
This is not okay at all.
Working people are being made unable to vote in person in this process as it is.
This is something that I think we need to add to our “get it done” list.
It’s nitty gritty time, if it’s been a long day and you haven’t voted yet – you’re not done, you only have this moment to save your Country, be in line before the Polls close and they have to let you Vote.
Polls Open in these key States till:
Pennsylvania 8pm
Michigan 8pm
Wisconsin 8pm
New Mexico 7pm
Arizona 7pm
Nevada 7pm
There might be some discrepancies Search your local County
So, my daughter just came from voting in Conshohocken (first ring Philly burb). Someone had signed their name on her line. They let her vote because apparently whosever signature it was hadn’t received a number. Very suspicious.
Might have been an innocent staff error. If you’ve ever seen those books, after a few hundred voters, the lines can get smaller late in the day. Easy to be off a line.
“the eyes of many around the world are watching closely. This is the BIG ONE.” Count me and my husband in! from Australia Northern NSW. We can add my young physio who comes today. Through our talks on his visits he has gradually opened up to “going right”. I made sure I’m wearing RED and am about to cover the LEVI’S chest advert to MAGA!
Voted around noon today in a deep blue suburb in Wisconsin. No line whatsoever, and my voter # was substantially lower than it was for the 2022 midterms. I am very hesitant to be optimistic after what they’ve pulled the last few times around, but it really does seem as though Democrat turnout is depressed.
I know another online fella that said not many people were around at all in his deep blue city in Ohio too.
I really think that a lot of the Democrats stayed home.
I knew they would.
Kamala was far more disliked than what they knew.
I suspected this would happen because I remember the NH Primary so well with her.
Boy was Kamala not liked here.. at all.
They sent her home first with less than 2% of the vote and it was so bad that they held their primary in SC.
I mean the signs of what a failed candidate she was have been there all along.
She was installed, and guess what, their installation plans are not going to work this time.
Far too many people ON THE LEFT cannot stand Kamala.
It’s been over an hour since the polls closed in IN and KY and no big cities have reported any results yet, so it appears that the red counties are holding up their reporting now. Good. Not that Trump is in any danger in these 2 states that he will win big.
Those 2 states called
For PJT in 270towin
My husband and I voted in our small township in Wisconsin. Our township has 480 registered voters and we were 395 & 396 and still two hours to go! Our township has gone to Trump in 2016 and 2020.
NOT In-aproPOS considering the Foni/Lettits/Braggart harpy whoriers unleashed against President Trump !
Suburban Tulsa County Oklahoma.
Longest I’ve ever waited in line to vote, but still not bad. Most elections, the wait has been 5-to-10 minutes. Today, it was exactly 30 minutes from taking my place in line…to exiting the building after voting. The poll workers were taking care of business with zeal.
People were in an upbeat mood. Lots of smiles and friendly chatter. No one was showing open signs of support for any particular candidate. There was one young man who had intentionally chosen to wear a pink stocking cap, which had to be some sort of message to the rest of us. The crowd was all ages, all races.
Many seemed to have no clue about the voting procedure and probably were first timers. A young girl in front of me had apparently been sent to vote by her parents, who had voted earlier in the day and told the poll worker that their daughter would be in later and would need help.
An amazing amount of people were there with walkers and wheelchairs. It was touching. Some looked like they had crawled out of their deathbed to struggle to the polls today. There’s only one candidate who could inspire that.
Too bad Oklahoma didn’t get the chance to vote amnesty-lovin’ RINO James Lankford out of office this year. As “a leading conservative” who sponsored the Dems favorite immigration bill (which all smart people rejected), Lankford gave Kamala and her crew ammo against Trump. He’s either a traitor to his constituents or too dumb to know what he did. Either way, Lankford needs to go when he’s up for reelection in 2 years.
Rural area in Piedmont / Sandhills area of NC. Heavy voting till shortly after 10am. When I got there around 10:45, I stood in line for 15 mins; voted & out in another 15 mins. No line when I left. There was a dem tent with 2 people and a rep tent with 4 people. Saw no one stop at the dem tent but rep tent had people stop by as I was walking back to leave. That says people came knowing who they would vote for.
Rise and Pray
https://www.youtube.com/live/Nuht4X-V4ew?si=Kou98cVHadi_vaqQ
Though it counts for little, given the overwhelming support for Trump in AL, I am passing this along for the good of everyone’s morale. I live in rural AL with a precinct that only has 1400 or so voters. A poll worker told me this afternoon that historically, they have 4-600 voters, but today, the count was over 100 per hour and they expected to have over 12oo people vote. I’d say 90% for Trump.
Southwestern PA here. Was number 729 at 5:45. Waited about 10 minutes. No issues. I am confident that our little corner of the township is MAGA country! 🇺🇸💪🏻
They need to check Adams county in Indiana. Trump won with 75% in 2020 and they are reporting Harris ahead with 73% with 54% of the vote in.
Oh not good at all
Must be a mistake.
From aceofspadeshq
Don’t know if it’s true
Republicans have grabbed Manchin’s Senate seat.
It was a no brainer.
So was Trump in 2020
Here on Oahu (Honolulu) we only have two places for in-person voting. I was going to vote today but my wife was bugging me to vote early so I went in yestersay. About 20 people in line around noon and as I left looked like the line was up to around 30. We are all mail in, to vote in person you have to sign a form/affidavit (same-day registration is also allowed). About 6 workers taking the forms and checking against voter roll, then you move to a second station where they pull the correct ballot for your precinct. They had two electronic machines (I think they are DRE) set up for ADA; no one was at them. Everyone (est about 20) was sitting down and filling out the paper ballots. The problem here is that all the ballots get fed (by voter) into the scanners, so there is a random assortment of ballots from precincts all over the island. So any hand count of physical ballot would first require sorting by precinct which AFAIK the County Clerk can’t do.
By law all ballots must be in County Clerk’s hands NLT 7:00PM HST. I guess they make a last run to the main PO just before seven. But any person in line at 7:00 at the two polling places has to be allowed to vote. Our paper has blamed walk-in voters for delay in getting election results; the failure of Office of Elections to staff up the polling place meant it took a couple of hours after 7:00 to get to the end of the line in 2020. No counting can be done until the last walk-in voter has voted.
We have signed onto the “national popular vote compact”. If states totaling 271 votes agree to it it goes into effect. If that happens there is a 99.9 percent chance that Hawaii’s electoral votes would be already awarded long before polls close here.
Not much to report on my east side of downtown Orlando. Hit the voting location around 3PM. No line to check in and about 4 people in line waiting for an open voting cubicle. Only had 11 slots in the place so it was a 10-12 minute wait. Last time there were at least 20 cubicles. Staff and voters in pretty good spirits. Some of staff maybe even too cheerful. In any case, the deed is done.
Spent the rest of the afternoon dealing with Dr appts & insurance so voting was the better part of my day.
Rural Alabama today the wife and I were the 300th and 301st voters in the precinct. Usually, we are 200 or so. Small group to be sure, but still an example of a significant up tick in turn out.
Bellweather county, Pinellas County in Florida is going to Trump. With 92% of the vote in, Trump is increasing his lead there to 26,000 votes, or 5%, Biden won it in 2020 by 0.3% with 1,241 votes. County has predicted the president in every election since 1976 except for Gore in 2000.
So now I am predicting a Trump win for the presidency, with 340 electoral votes, and a 2.5% popular vote win.
Loudoun County, VA. Solid blue suburb of DC. Handed out Republican sample ballots for a three hours this afternoon. Pretty anemic turnout, maybe 125 voters. Say 50 took Republican ballots, but the majority of them took Democrat ballots, too. No tension with the Dem volunteers or voters. Highlight by far: Julie Levin, Mark’s wife, also volunteered and was handing out sample ballots during our shift overlap. It was a bonus to get to meet her.
It’s all in the Lord’s hands now.
Report from a small town in Maine’s 2nd U.S. House District
Early voting approximates 25-35% of typical presidential year’s total turnout.
Election day morning turnout was exceptionally heavy. During the 45 minutes I waited to put my completed ballots into the tabulators, the polling place probably handled as many people as it does during an entire morning. The polling place was EVEN BUSIER between the time it opened its doors and I got there (about 10 a.m.).
Late in the afternoon, the polling place’s large parking area was crammed with cars.
just returned from voting in our local community center located, of all famous places, less than 1/2 mile from the birthplace of the hass avocado, born by mail carrier and amateur horticulturalist, Rudolph Hass, nearly a century ago
every hass avocado tree and avocado in the world is a direct decendant of that single tree grafting that occurred back in 1926
approximately 10 poll workers and no waiting @ 4pm
had a silver haired ‘karen’ try to say i was not allowed to wear my ‘let’s go brandon’, ‘fjb’ t-shirt in the polling location
dispatched him quickly by schooling him on the applicable statute and smiled broadly and with great satisfaction as he scurried away
it’s beyond maddening that voting in cali is a futile exercise, but go through the motions i did
kinda surreal voting for steve garvey after watching and following him and his baseball career, but hey, this is cali, so adam shiffhead will naturally be installed
Finished working the polls in southern Maryland. My small precinct had 1000 votes cast + over 80 provisional ballots. Is that typical to have 8% provisional ballots?
In-person voting, paper ballots, Trump 800+ to Lala- just under 200.What a well run precinct election I witnessed today as a poll worker in central Virginia. No “voting machines”-paper ballots, optical scanner-counter- no internet connection. No fraud observed at this level.
Steve Bannon and Monica Crowley are having a good time. lol
Checking in from Texas.
Ted Cruz is a blowhard who doesn’t seem to really get anything done.
But he’s dam sight better than the leftist he just defeated so we’re good. Plus he’s 100% better than our other senator.
BTW early voting was huge here in my rural area and it had not been so until this election.
Wife and I went 3 times…..now hold on it’s not what you think. The lines were crazy long the first two days we tried so we waited a couple more and the third try was less than an hour.
Our son voted today and it was a breeze because so many of us had already voted.
One other thing: Our rep to the Texas State House won w/Trump’s endorsement. He probably would have won w/out Trump’s help because he’s a supporter of Ken Paxton whom as you know fought back getting impeached by the State House. That’s important as Ken is not only key to us but to the country at large.