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Marked in Pgh on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:44:40 PM
Despite the predictions in the News Media and claims of others of long lines, my local poll station only had cars lined up the street and some six people standing in line outside of it at ten minutes to 7AM this morning when I drove by on my way to work. So it didn't give me enough time to cast my ballot, but only then. I went back there at around 1PM and it looked like any other election day. The turn out is good, but not overwhelming, at least in my community. Don't listen to the News Media reports until the winner is confirmed. At least Dan Rather won't come out of retirement and declare Florida for the Democrat candidate at 8:15PM this time. He did that in 2000, calling the state for Gore, when part of the western panhandle of Florida, the most conservative andRepublican area in the state, was in the Central Time Zone and the polls were still open for another forty-five minutes. The winner was not finally declared until about 4AM the next morning, and it was George W. Bush, as it was in every single recount for the next thre months as the Democrats tried to steal the election. This election is ours to win or lose, so turn out.