The worst part of the election for me (well, one of many things I hated… ) were the thousands of political ads for THE NEXT STATE!! Boston TV covers NH and they were having a very heated race up there - I know more about their two candidates for senator than I do about my own! And I don’t care!!!
SO grateful that is (almost) over…
Louisiana has a Senate race that will surely go to a runoff. So I’m not done with ads yet.
Just finished voting. I think I was out of there in 20 minutes. Went very smoothly.
That’s a great idea. No matter the outcome I think I’ll stop by the spirits shop and bring home a bottle of my favorite “sedative.”
"That’s a great idea. No matter the outcome I think I’ll stop by the spirits shop and bring home a bottle of my favorite “sedative.”
I am surely doing the same thing! I can’t see any way to get through the day (no matter the outcome) without it. I have been so horrified by all this…we deserve better and I don’t know how we got here.
Must…drink…heavily (for me, that’s two glasses, unfortunately). :o3
Voted in under 15 minutes. Full parking lot but the line was short.
Just saw a photograph, a close-up of Bill at the polling booth. My lord he does not look well. We’re all well aware of his heart surgery years ago and the diminished strength apparent in his voice, but he looks years older than Hilary! And he has the withered and vein-y hands of much older person. Hope he is well. Lake Jr. watched the PBS documentary last night on the 2016 candidates and was very surprised to see that in old footage of HRC husband Bill hard dark hair! Kids say the darnedest things.
Went to vote but the one ballot reading machine got jammed. Someone from BOE was there to see if he could fix it. If not, they’ll bring In another machine. I decided to leave and I’ll go back in an hour or so as polling place is about 3 minutes from my house. Plus, I’ll get another pastry. 
Our long national nightmare is (almost) over. That we survived this is a testament to the patience of the American people, IMO. Friends from overseas who have visited in the past two months couldn’t believe what we’ve been subjected to. I will vote for anyone with a rational election-reform plan that limits the length of the campaign season, how much money you can spend and how much airtime you can buy. The nation’s collective sanity may depend on it…
Katliamom, I think Americans’ collective exhaustion over presidential campaigns goes in cycles. 25 years ago folks complained about seemingly endless campaigns. Then, all of a sudden in the1991-1992 season, Bill Clinton and others waited very late to announce their candidacies. Mario Cuomo famously didn’t make a decision about entering the race until Christmas week! But here we are again in the 21st century with essentially 3-year campaigns again. Candidate Trump didn’t announce until summer of 2015 but it seems like forever, nevertheless.
I agree about shortening the campaign season.
Voting seemed normal where I go to vote (kind of interesting walking into the gym of the school I went to for grade school so many years ago, still looks pretty much the same), I went before commuting and there was a steady but not particularly stream of people voting. Funny scene, a woman had her two young kids with her, and they were like “Mommy, do you get a prize for voting, and can we share it?”…it was cute.
I was more interested in local ballot questions here in NJ, but of course I would have voted anyway. In the 'now I feel old" my son was able to vote in his first presidential election in Boston, said it was weird filling out a paper ballot in full view (in NJ, it is a voting booth kind of thing with curtains to protect privacy).
I just got back. No line at all. Two people in front of me. S2 also voted - the voting was at his old elementary school so probably where he learned about the suffregettes too! Afterwards we took a nice little walk around the local pond. It’s so warm the turtles were sunning themselves. A pair of mallards paddled lazily. A blue jay provide a nice contrast to the yellow and orange.
Voted. I had to wait in line a few minutes then wait for a cubby to be open. It is three sided but no curtain.
I remember voting in Chicago when I was in grad school in the 80’s and you just stood at a table and filled your ballot out. It was weird as I was used to the lever machines we had in NY.
S voted today in Boston. I’ll have to ask him about voting in full view.
@emilybee:
Was that vote early and vote often? lol. Studs Terkel wrote a very funny reminiscence when fresh out of law school, he was hired as a poll watcher in Chicago (I think for the democrats), and he explained how it was civilized, that there wa a gentleman’s agreement between the parties about who to allow to vote, and his big job was maintaining the sandwiches and booze in the basement of the polling place, which is how they got people to vote (often, I might add lol).
^ That was a bit before my time in Chicago.
No line to vote here. Looked like a light turnout based on my number, but then we are not a battleground state.
Long lines here in a no early voting state. But the line moved right along and they had many more voting stations than I’ve ever seen before. My polling place is in a church and the minister was going along the line of people waiting offering cookies and bottled water. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood.
D is on her way to put her “I voted” sticker on the grave of Susan B Anthony in Rochester, NY. Apparently there’s a long line of people waiting to do this.
I want to thank all of you who voted in early voting and waited over an hour or more then. Or if you voted via absentee ballot at your own pace.
I was in and out this morning in less than 15 min.
This proved to be the most painless part of the whole friggin process.