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[geekchick]

When I got my Democratic ballot at 6:00 tonight, I was voter #596. (No idea how the Republican voting was going and whether it was busier than normal.) In the last general election, I voted around 6:45 my voter number was somewhere in the mid- to high-300s. And this is even with freezing rain and the worst commute in recent memory.

[Edit: CNN and the Washington Post (and probably others which I haven't looked at yet) are already calling VA for Obama by significant margins. Huckabee and McCain are close, with Huckabee currently leading by 4 points.]

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Higher turnout is a good thing, regardless of one's candidate preferences...

[geekchick]

Especially given that even the runner-up candidate got more total votes than the winning Republican. I kind of doubt that will carry over to the general election though.