From TPM Reader AO:
As encouraging as CS‘s report was, I’m afraid my own experience at the polls wasn’t as positive. I live in a smallish border town & voted around 11 this morning. I’m glad to say there was a line, comprised mostly of older folks & “soccer moms.” I was the only person I saw who actually took a DEM ballot. (!) & from the looks of it, the many Republicans in my fair town seem split between — ARGH — Ron Paul, John McCain & Huckabee. Despite lots of Mitt signs littering the town, there didn’t seem to be much Mitting going on at the polling place.
Perhaps it was just the time of day or something but on the whole, I’m surprised. I had thought that there were many more democrats in this town (we have a lot of folks who move here from MA because NH is a much cheaper place to live mostly due to no state income tax).
There were a fair number of people who were also registering to vote, btw, but from a distance it was impossible to tell what party (if any) they were choosing.
Finally, from very brief exchanges with my fellow voters, it looks as if most of them were voting not for a candidate’s total platform but just for one specific thing — a “strong military” to combat “terror” or a “return” to “good Christian values” and so forth. *sigh*
Democracy in action.
