District 37 what the eye caught.

Okay I really should have skipped the coffee and went straight to voting. I arrived at about 6:38 just 8 minutes behind when I planned on getting there. I was 44 in line and was at the end of the first rotation around the lobby of Miami Elementary School. Ahead of me were exactly 3 African American voters out of 43 by 6:40 I estimate about 60 people, and about 80 at 6:45. This increased to about 100 at 6:50 and the line started moving a few minutes after.

The number of people in the lobby tended to remain pretty constant so in the roughly 45 minutes I waited in line for so about 250 people showed up through 7:45 This district mind you consists of half of our subdivision and Clinton Place apartments and the condos on the other side of Hayes. I would have to estimate less then 1000 households in this area. If only 2 voters exist per household which is pretty conservative, then a reasonable guess is that close to 12% have already voted.
The volunteers also already voted, and this pushed the number up to 53 by time I scanned my ballot.

I counted nearly dead on 8% African Voters. This is interesting because the last Census puts the percentage of population that is black at 8.58% I admit freely that first thing in the morning is a terrible cross section to use for stats, but that’s pretty encouraging. Four years ago when I was Fifth in line, there was four people behind me, and both districts used half of a gym that is fully used today, there were a grand total of zero African Americans to be seen.

I noticed that 7 of ten voters were female.

There was only one person in Camo, which I take as a sign that deep end Republicans might be resigned to lose. Again totally I am stereotyping the electorate. If you are mad, please forgive me and send all complains to your hypocrisy.

Every time I have ever voted I was not approached by anyone to be collected for poll data. This makes me of course question the validity of polling data. How can they ever get it right when my sub which is about as Middle America as one can get, is not polled?

We voters of early dawn were lucky enough to beat the annoying last second panhandler vote volunteers.

Finally I just want to say to all you people encouraged by the high voter turnout, do not take it lightly. This is how bad things have to get to gain your attention? Go vote now do not wait. I will cover more on this in the upcoming hours.