EPIC TURNOUT FOR DEMS -- We Are Out of Ballots!

[baghdad_bush]

Drudge is Reporting that Secretary of State is making runs to Seacoast – Hampton, Portsmouth – and Southern Hillsborough – Pelham, Nashua – to bring extra democratic ballots. Many towns are reporting shortages... Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[niyad]

1. wasn't cnn just reporting that about the repukes? did they get it wrong again?

[Kittycat]

2. I think that was a smart@ss trying to say that Republicans are turning out to flip the vote away

from HRC to Obama.

It's the dems that are running out of ballots.

ETA Link to thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2629364&mesg_id=2629567

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. No...BitWit was just making it up

CNN reported ballot shortages developing. BitWit said that was a result of the Republicans, primarily because he or she expects a large Obama victory and is trying to rationalize it as Republicans deep-sixing the Dem primary.

[caligirl]

3. In some places they would just send the voters away, tough luck , Florida?

In NH they scramble to get the ballots so everyone gets to vote.

[elocs]

5. Running out of ballots is pathetic and certainly indicates poor management and planning.

This is something you might expect in a third world country.

[Bravo Zulu]

6. bu$h world?

[tekisui]

7. He has 10,000 people traveling with him for security in the Mid-East

That sounds like a third-world dictator to me.

[Eurobabe]

8. are you frickin serious?

[tekisui]

10. Yep. More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit

sraeli officials in Jerusalem are to deploy more than 10,000 police officers in a vast security operation ahead of the arrival this week of George Bush, the first US president to visit in a decade. Graffiti are being cleaned off walls, road markings are being repainted and hundreds of American flags are being put up across the city. The floodlights which illuminate the stone ramparts of the Old City will stay on for an extra two hours every night, until 2am, to give the president the chance to catch the view.

Hundreds of hotel rooms across Jerusalem have been booked for Bush's group, as well as for the media and even Israeli officials, who fear they might not be able to make it home in the evenings.

Bush, who arrives on Wednesday for his first visit as president, will stay at the King David hotel. Eight truckloads of equipment have already arrived in advance of his two-night stay. All the hotel's rooms will be taken by his entourage - tourists have had their bookings cancelled.

The security precautions, dubbed Operation Clear Skies by the Israeli security services, are immense. Roads around the hotel will be blocked, despite the huge traffic jams that will entail. A force of 10,500 police and security staff will be deployed and Bush will be flown in to the hotel by helicopter from the airport near Tel Aviv. "There will be so much security nobody will be able to get anywhere near the president," said Micky Rosenfield, Israel's police spokesman.

link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2236522,00.html

[HughMoran]

9. I'm loving the turnout

This is so good - it's about time some of the average "nonpolitical" people had some interest in who their leader is.