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Tell HN: If there is one shocker on election night, it's Georgia.
"1,994,990 people voted early in Georgia. 3,301,875 total voted in Georgia's presidential race in 2004. Let that sink in."
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/on-road-atlanta-georgia.html
- trickjarrett 18y agoWe'll see how many surprises there are tonight. I expect that one way or another people will be in the streets when the election ends, either celebrating the victory or rioting in anger. Let's hope it's not the latter.
- kirse 18y agoWhat country are you from that riots after an election?
- DTrejo 18y agoWe hope we are in a country that is devoid of apathy and full of citizen participation.
- khafra 18y agoThat's one thing that's always struck me about certain other countries' legislative bodies. South Korea, for instance, has a long tradition of fistfights on the legislative floor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wn70xPxzc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wn70xPxzc). They also have one of the best telecommunications infrastructures in the world; perhaps we should encourage pugilistic resolutions to Congressional filibusters in the USA.
- anamax 18y agoIn some large US cities, "celebrating the victory" is a riot.
- anamax 18y ago> I expect that one way or another people will be in the streets when the election ends, either celebrating the victory or rioting in anger. Which people? Not to put to fine a point on it, but no one thinks that McCain's supporters will riot if McCain loses while it's almost assumed that Obama's supporters will if Obama does. Curiously enough, this difference is seen as reflecting well on Obama's supporters and even Obama himself.
- RavingGoat 18y agoWhich is worse fraud or anger over fraud?
- rrhyne 18y agoI'm white as a sheet and I'll be rioting if McCain wins. Heh.
- Niten 18y ago> no one thinks that McCain's supporters will riot if McCain loses while it's almost assumed that Obama's supporters will if Obama does. Assumed by whom? Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'd recommend you stop watching Fox News before your brain rots.
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- anamax 18y agohttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-trice-27-oct27,0,3834559.column http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-trice-27-o... http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/police-prepare-for-unrest-2008-10-21.html http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/police-prepare-for-unres... http://www.democrats.com/node/18092 http://www.democrats.com/node/18092 Hmm. No mention of Fox, and that's without going into the lefty blogosphere.
- cthulha 18y agoI think McCain supporters will go batshit crazy if he loses: they'll be convinced that fraud was involved, rather than people getting sick and tired of Republican incompetence.
- jhancock 18y agoI am from Georgia, voted absentee from Shanghai. This is the 6th time I've voted for a president. Up to now, I've never picked a winner. I'm hoping this time will be different ;). The turn-out numbers are amazing. If there is one lasting change from this election cycle, I hope it is that people get involved, vote, and stay on top of their elected officials; federal, state, and local.
- icey 18y agoWhy not just make a link to the article? I can't wait for tomorrow.
- Alex3917 18y agoI was in college for the last two elections. If I walked all the way across campus on election day, I'd only see maybe a couple other people wearing "I voted today" stickers. I'm not there today to compare, but at least based on Facebook activity it seems like the turnout is going to be WAY bigger.
- hugh 18y agoI clicked the "I voted" button just to make it go away. (I didn't vote, of course, cuz I'm not a US citizen. Erm, not that that's gonna stop some people...)
- dmr83457 18y agoI heard some figure recently that in polling in previous years about 36% of students registered to vote said they are actually voting. This year it is around 88%, and that doesn't consider an increase in students registered.
- dnaquin 18y agoKeep in mind that lots of college students vote absentee.
- chris11 18y agoI'm currently in college right now, and this is the first election I've been able to vote in. This also the first election where I've donated any money to a campaign. I also have noticed a lot of activity at my college. Hopefully it carries over into other elections.
- nickb 18y agoLooks like the history will be made today!
- breck 18y agoI don't see how this is surprising at all. If you were given 20 days to vote and people voted randomly then you would expect about 95% of voters to have voted before today. Given that voting is an important thing that you probably don't want to procrastinate, I expect more than 95% of people would have already voted. On the contrary it is probably habitual to wait til the big day, but I wouldn't read too much into that number.
- tptacek 18y agoVotes aren't uninformly distributed. Most people vote on election day.
- transburgh 18y agoNot all states provide early voting. The vast majority of votes will be cast today.
- bgtony 18y agoI am in Ga.. wife waited 3 hours in line to vote early. People camped out last night to be the first in line today.
- tptacek 18y agoThings I'm paying attention to in GA: * Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, is from Georgia, popular there, and on the ballot; I've seen predictions that he'll draw as much as 2%. I'm not a Libertarian, but I'm guessing his votes get siphoned off of McCain. * Saxby Chambliss is running within the MOE of Jim Martin, his Dem challenger. Chambliss took Max Cleland's seat in a campaign where he ran ads comparing Cleland, who lost 3 limbs in Vietnam, to Osama bin Laden. Chambliss evaded the draft.
- ejs 18y agojust waited just under 2 hours to vote here in GA, we'll see how this goes...