Reply #154: trying to be rational

[gercohen]

My own personal observation having worked at an early voting site in Wake County NC and on election day at the exact same location -- During the early voting, I counted 125 people wearing Kerry/Edwards buttons, hats, t-shirts, bumper stickers on their chest, whatever, compared with 6 such persons for Bush. Almost everyone with either Bush or Kerry stickers were white voters. The site went 70% for Kerry in the early voting

On election day, I was working outside the polls handing out Democratic stuff. I found a much larger concentration of hostile white voters who told me they were voting for Bush. Election day vote at that polling place, 59% for Kerry. So, a statistician looking at the election results say "same location, 11% swing to Bush, must be evidence of fraud". But my own anectdotal evidence? - there was a significant difference between the early vote type of voter and the election day type of voter, or maybe the OBL tape got to people (it was after Early voting ended)