1 hour plus waits in Illinois!

[Walt Starr]

Playing Mosh right now.

We're going to kick this mother fucker's ass today.

[benburch]

1. Dennis Hastert may lose today, too.

Its not a prediction I am totally confident about, but I think there is a good chance that Rubin Zamora may be our next Congresscritter!

[Dastard Stepchild]

3. My fingers are crossed for Zamora (n/t)

[Doctor_J]

7. i saw rubin on ch 11 sunday

gawd, how could anyone vote for hastert over that guy?

I will say it again - if our future is Zamora, Obama, Granholm, Edwards, and Landreau, and theirs is Hart, Hayworth, and Thune, it should be a good next generation for us.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Rubin's Done Very Well

This might not be his time, but I'm very impressed with how well his campaign has done with virtually no resources. Here's hoping the organization in Kane County keeps moving along and if there's not a surprise tonight, we'll sure work for it in 2006.

Greetings from the 8th District...big day here; hopefully the one we give Phil Crane the retirement he so deserves.

I'm hoping after Crane's history, we have Hyde (he'll probably retire) and Hastert to clean up and to hold onto these districts and make Illinois even more Blue.

Cheers!

[Logansquare]

21. I would believe in a God if that happens. n/t

[Doctor_J]

2. where are you walt?

there were lines in DG already at 6:15

[Walt Starr]

4. Aurora

I was at my polling place at 6:40 this morning. Out at 7:45.

[benburch]

5. Elgin here, btw.

About to go vote...

[benburch]

13. I Voted!

No line at precinct 13 here in Elgin. Of course, we have the punch cards still.

Never a problem with those as long as you follow Illinois recount rules!!!

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Wow! Keyes is really turning out his voters!

:silly:

[Doctor_J]

12. when the Keyes votes are tallied

we'll have a fair idea of how many Illinoisans would vote for David Duke if he were on the ballot with a (R) next to his name.

[benburch]

17. Not so!

More Illinois Republicans would vote for David Duke... The ones who cannot imagine voting for a non-White.

[grace0418]

8. North Side of Chicago also very busy

Fuck Yeah!

[terrya]

9. And, Walt...this is a safe state for Kerry...

Part of it has to be the turnout for Obama, but still...

Unbelievable.

Bush is going down.

[chiburb]

11. Record registrations In Illinois this election, 7.5 million...

And I suspect OUR side is much more motivated to vote today!

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. HUGE turnout downstate, as well.

:thumbsup:

[Getchasome]

15. Huge turnout downstate

usually equals more votes for Keyes. Although Illinois goes Democrat, it's because of Cook County. DuPage County just west of Chicago and downstate is loaded with repukes. Can't figure out DuPage County. It's filled with wanna be rich people who purchase homes and cars they can't afford, but they keep voting repuke because they wanna be identified with the upper crust.

[Cuban_Liberal]

16. Kinda depends on what part of downstate, really.

Some parts are very red, some are very blue, but most of it is some shade of purple.

:)

[blueblitzkrieg]

18. It was an hour wait here in NM.

And boy was it worth it. :)

[XNASA]

19. 5 minute wait in the South Burbs for me.

This is Jesse Jr. territory.

I had no problem at all voting.

[jjanpundt]

20. Short wait in Elk Grove Village

Great turnout at 7:15 AM. The election judges were really excited with the turnout. Told me this was the biggest turnout they'd ever seen! Pretty much a Republican area but saw a lot of Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers.

[Padraig18]

22. 20-minute wait in my rural precinct

Long line when I got there, long line when I left. No one reported any problems or disruptions.